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Comm Dev Update-Mature Content Filter RevisionMature Content Filter Revisions
As many of you know, the Mature Content filter was changed pretty drastically to an 18 and older system. This was necessitated by abuse of the system and was put in place as a stop gap measure while we gathered in depth opinion from the community as to what they desired to see in place, and from the artists who post such work.
If you would like to see the course of those events please check out my last several journals as they document this as well as other policy related discussions.
That said, we have made some pretty significant changes to the filtering system to allow for the most flexibility to everyone involved, from viewer to artist. One of the biggest issues we faced was people simply not marking their work if it was mature content or not, and this was mainly due to that option being buried at the bottom of the submission process. To balance that we have now made checking yes or no to Mature Content mandatory to complete your submission. T

Now Playing: deviantART Film!deviantART Proudly Announces... deviantART Film

Film

Film as a word conjures up something special. A unique feeling. Almost a different texture than words like movie or video. When someone asks you to go see a movie on the weekend you think, “Oh cool, that’ll be fun,” but if someone asks you to go to a film festival the feeling you get is entirely different. It feels like an investment of your time, one for which you want to plan accordingly and enjoy thoroughly.

And this is exactly what we are bringing you with deviantART Film. An experience meant to be enjoyed from the moment you hit watch to the very end of the film be

Gallery v2.1 New Features!Gallery v2.1: New Features
We have done a bit of tweaking and some upgrades to the recently fantastic upgrades to galleries and gallery folders. Don't want to use the standard three image thumbnail compilation? No problem. Want the choice between a text only or image only icons for the sidebar? No sweat.
Got too carried away moving things around and want to just put it all back? Click away.
And if you have a subscription and wants some funky CSS to match your journal? Have at it!
Here is a list of the upgrades! Enjoy!

'Everything' section replaced with a new Browse section

One-click reset/re-order your Featured deviations

Customized sidebar pictures for folders

Text-only and Icon-only mode for folder sidebar

Redesigned folder page: Text placed appears on left or right

Weekend to End Breast CancerIntroduction
For the past 5 years our very own $Moonbeam13 has been involved in supporting and raising money for The Weekend To End Breast Cancer event in Toronto.

She has done this in a fairly quiet and discreet way so we felt it was time to shed a bit more light on what exactly she does for this great cause.

To give a bit of background, in the past 4 years this organization has raised over 60 million dollars in donations and through this has made some landmark strides in advancing the research on breast cancer, which claims the lives of close to 50,000 women a year and about a quarter million women diagnosed per year.

This money does ma

deviantART Version 6After much effort, arguing, designing, and programming, our front page is now better than ever! We've taken a close look at how our community interacts and made improvements to make new art even easier to discover. Quick-loading thumbnails and a faster, more reliable search are just a couple of ways we've made browsing an even more enjoyable experience.

Our Footer is now a destination in itself! Offering direct access to News, Polls, and other community-specific features, this robust feature is extremely functional and also fun to use. You can also flip through your Channels, giving you a great at-a-glance view of your favorite types of art.

Weekly Update-Special Focus-Internet SafetyCommunity Development

This week we will be taking a break from our traditional Weekly Updates to address one particular issue. The Updates will resume as normal next Wednesday.
Internet Safety
We at deviantART.com are concerned for your safety. The internet is accessible to everyone from all walks of life and all ages and so is deviantART. Children, as well as adults, now populate the web in vast numbers making it difficult to distinguish the age of the person sitting behind the monitor.
Sadly, there are dangers to posting your personal information online and making it available to the world at large. However, you can protect yourself from harm by simply being smart about what you post online and how you interact with others.
We, the administration of deviantART, take your safety VERY seriously and would like to assure you that we are actively finding and banning, th

Happy Eighth Birthday deviantART! SPECIAL CHATROOMS
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JOURNAL CSS
Do you want to help represent the dAbdAy in your journal as well? If you have the ability to use CSS (this means all you subscribers and seniors!) grab this and put it in your journal to promote the events going on, or even better, start your own!

Art for AIDS Orphans
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End of Year ReviewEnd of year review
$chix0r reports

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WHAT A YEAR
SOME DEVIOUS FACTS
DAMN GOOD FUN!
dATribes & dAMonsters
COMMUNITY RELATIONS REFLECTIONS
ON FILM!
COMMUNITY EXCELLENCE
HOTSHOTS AND HEROS!
DON'T QUOTE ME, BUT…
and LAST BUT NOT LEAST!

As 2008 comes to a close, join me in taking a walk down memory lane as we recall the deviantART community highlights from the past 12 months.

2008 was a whirlwind of a year with many new features and milestones in the community. We celebrated our 8th, birthday, saw the site move into v6, and embraced the long awaited new message centre. Moderation reporting got a whole lot sexier and

The Big Spring Clean ProjectThe Big Spring Clean
In many cultures, Spring is traditionally a time which brings a period of time where you take time out to give your house a good cleaning, get rid of any unwanted items which have been gathering dust for a while, and generally put everything back in it's right place.
I always hear that people consider deviantART to be their home -- I know I do -- so why not apply this thought to our devious home too?
The Big Spring Clean project is aimed at doing just that very thing. Making sure that our galleries are spick and span, and that everything is in it's right place. Miscategorised (miscats) deviations are about to feel a sweeping of brushes from all sides, and we'd like you get your sleeves rolled up to help out.

How can I get involved?
Simple, really.

Take a look at your gallery. Make sure that everything in there is in it's right place. Have you

Gallery v2 Launches at deviantARTWe've got some exciting news regarding your Galleries today, check out the short video below for a demo of the new features and some hilarity.

Gallery v2 In review:

Featured Gallery, Everything Gallery, and Category Drop-Down
By default your Gallery will now default to the "Featured Gallery". This is where you can present the art works that best define your Gallery. The "Everything Gallery" shows off every deviation you have ever submitted. And the NEW Category Drop-down Menu displays only categories and sub-categories of deviantART that are relevant to your work!

Gallery Folders
Organize your art and your gallery based on yo

Happy 7th Birthday deviantART Special Chatrooms

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Intro/Community Development
Welcome to the amazingly astonishing 7th year Birthday of the fantastically fabulous site known as deviantART! 7 years old on August 7th of 2007! How lucky is that.
We have dozens of events and contests all day long and the bulk of them themed around the number 7! Loads of prizes to win, tons of time to hop on dAmn and meet some new people as well!
So, read on and see what is going down this August 7th and say Happy Birthd

Portfolio (The Awesome Version): It's Here!Portfolio is the simplest and most professional tool on the Internet for formal presentation and review of artwork – and the best part is: it's available to everyone for FREE!
Start Your Portfolio Now
Your Portfolio sits at a custom domain (.daportfolio.com), and we reserved your user name (but you can use any other available name). All this so you can submit your work without people seeing that goofy stuff on your user page.

Watch a Cool Demo:

Video by $scir

All Free Portfolios Feature:

Up to 4 galleries of artwork, each featuring up to 18 images.
A Portfolio storage area which allows you to host additional images for quick

deviantART Remembers Joseph BarberaThis past Monday marked the passing of one of the last true giants in the animation world. To say Joseph Barbera was a legend in his field is simply an understatement.

Joseph Barbera was born on March 24 of 1911 and began his career quite earnestly as a delivery boy for a local tailor in Manhattan and later on, during the time of the Great Depression he attempted to become a cartoonist for a now defunct local New York Magazine. Fortunately for the world of animation, he didn't end up getting this job and instead found employment with the Van Buren Studio in 1932 as a writer and animator till the studio closed down in 1936, after which he fou

CEA Blog: Know Your Report CategoriesHi deviants!
In my past blogs we've gone over How to submit Abuse Reports and How to Report an Underage Deviant. In this blog I'm going to give a breakdown of each category in the Copyright & Etiquette portion of our Support Center Contact page.
So why is filing reports or inquiries in the right category important?
Picking the right category ensures the right staff members are reviewing your ticket as soon as possible. Filing a ticket in the incorrect category requires that we escalate it to the correct team for review and this can potentially add time to the wait for a response. Take a quick look through the categories and pick the best one for your ticket. If you're still unsure, fear not! We'll go over the categori

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Thumbnail and Submission Issues

by lolly, Dec 12, 2006, 4:32:11 PM
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Thumbnail and Submission Issues

We are experiencing some issues with thumbnails generating and difficulties with submitting deviations and prints currently and are working to correct them.

The issues happening now are;

Thumbnails slow to load

Difficulty in submitting new deviations

Difficulty in submitting new prints

Print orders failing due to source files becoming corrupted or not being relayed to the print facility

If you encounter any problems with a prints order please contact us via a request ticket at Prints Help

If you submitted an order and it went through it should be fine, if you feel something may have happened then contact the help desk after waiting for 48 hours to receive your verification email.

Also please note, these issues will not affect billing so there is no need to worry about transaction errors via credit card or paypal. These matters only apply to image files.

This is actually a hardware issue and not a bug. Some of our servers decided to call it a day and thus all their buddies had to pick up the slack which has now got them pretty overworked.

But backup is on the way, and as soon as new hardware arrives straight into the hosting facility it will go and we hope to have this issue resolved soon.

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~Cappus Jan 6, 2007

hey.. i have problem, I can't submit art, and i have somethink like that: No More Ads: Subscribe to deviantART Now or ad blocked here by kpf, what's that?

!theonlyRedBaroness Jan 2, 2007

Hey Lolly - still having trouble uploading devs - it's Jan 2nd - are the servers still being fixed?

~SnowFlurryCat Dec 19, 2006

Hi there!

This morning, when trying to submit a new piece of artwork, the button, which allows me to put the file for the artwork into DA, is missing!

Also various pieces of artwork in my gallery are blank with a little red x in the lefthand corner. When I click on 'em, there is no picture generated.

Thanks for all your hard work. You folks are amazing. I can't imagine the sheer volume of stuff you have to deal with every day.

~SnoCat

~DIchigo Dec 17, 2006 Student Traditional Artist

hmm, sorry if this is the wrong new post to post this at, but my deviations say that the total view and that 'today's' view are the sae, and i know they're not

~ryokogirle Dec 15, 2006

not sure if this is the place or not- but my recent visitor list hasn't updated in ages... and i was wondering if this was a bug or if it is only affecting me.

`dj-designs Dec 17, 2006

Mine hasn't updated since Nov 28'th.

~ryokogirle Dec 17, 2006

yup same here.... wonder why

`dj-designs Dec 17, 2006

deviantART is extremely buggy at the moment and has been so on and off for a long time now. I'm really starting to get bored of the shifting functionality of the site.

`ananasjihad Dec 14, 2006 Hobbyist General Artist

Just dont go blaming the fedex people again..we all know last time they were just delivery your customery prework sandwich

Thanks for the info though, certainly helpful

~Omnianimaphobia Dec 14, 2006 Professional General Artist

Ahh I was wondering what was going on.. well good luck to the crew working on that

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