I don't normally write news articles. In fact, I don't do much on dA. I browse through the occasional gallery every now in then. But other than that, nothing.

However, I do spend a lot of time on dAmn. A lot of my time. Now, I've seen dAmn go through a lot of changes and most of them have made sense to me. However, this new update I've just found out about makes me want to rage.

I was sitting in one of my regular chatrooms and I was trying to brainstorm with the other users in there about a name for a chatroom based around music. After a ton of ideas, we finally came up with #Octave. So we checked and it didn't exist. So I went to go create it and was told that the name I chose was unavailable. So I tried a few times and decided to go into MNAdmin. I end up getting told that you can no longer create a chatroom if someone already signed up using that name. So because of ~octave, someone who signed up 5 years ago and hasn't done ANYTHING since, I'm robbed of an awesome name. And it works vice versa.
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Now, we all know how many people create chatrooms just sit. It's not as bad as how many people create usernames and do nothing, but it's a pretty huge number. People can never create usernames because someone used that name for a chatroom. I believe this is ridiculous.

Now, I asked the fine people in MNAdmin if it was a coding error and they told me it wasn't. In fact, they assured me the coders were brilliant. Now that's either bullshit, or they're very busy and dA can't find anyone else to code for them (This is bullshit, because I know people who would. For free.) because I still can't delete chatrooms I made from two years ago. Even the MNAdmin can't delete chatrooms, they can only make them so no one can join.

Now I don't know who comes up with these ideas but they really don't think about the end user when they come up with them. I personally believe that if they cared even a little bit about the community, they would work around it.