Become a Beta Tester on DeviantArt! by Team, journal
Become a Beta Tester on DeviantArt!
Join the beta testing program to help test and improve future DeviantArt features!
Beta testing is a cornerstone of DeviantArt’s history, and beta testers benefit the community by providing feedback and usage data. Through bug reports and insight shared during the testing stages, beta testers can help shape and improve site features.
Any deviant can become a beta tester by adding this journal to their favourites. :+fav: New Beta Testers are added daily; once you favorite this journal, you'll gain access the following day. If you decide later that you want to opt-out, you can do so by removing this journal from your favorites and you'll be removed the following day.
:sherlock: How It Works
Beta testers are among the first to see new features introduced to DeviantArt. This early access is provided so deviants can test new features and provide feedback for the DeviantArt team through comments, bug reports, and user engagement metrics before it's released sitewide.
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I was thinking for a while now about giving Eclipse another chance and write a followup to my last journal. It's been 4 months, after all, and a few things have changed. (I would like to link you my old journal decently for comparison, but the new journal editor won't let me add a simple text link, and i don't want a giant thumbnail breaking the flow of this.)
So, in order to get me in the proper mindset, it would make sense to try Eclipse for a while, and even use the Eclipse tools to write this journal. (Spoiler alert: it ruined my day.) The first hurdle in writing this was finding the textarea – you know, the input field where you write your actual journal in. This should be a no-brainer, but believe it or not, i could not find it at first. On the top of the page it says "Add your title here", so that's pretty straightfoward at least. But where's the main textarea? There's only a Plus icon with a greyed out "Share what's on your mind". When i click the Plus, i get a popup that lets
Update Good news everyone! I just got confirmation that it’s a bug and being worked on. Thanks, :devspyed:! Original journal The eagle-eyes among you might have noticed that something is going on with our deviations: They look somewhat worse than before. Why? DeviantArt is now compressing the full-view – and rather aggressively so! Previously, the full-view was exactly what you were uploading (unless you specifically told the upload process to scale it down). But now, the full-view gets re-saved as well. Worse, they're in the process of re-saving all (most? some?) of existing deviations across the site. (It seems, only JPEGs are affected,...
Video of Chris and I closing down DA's colo by spyed, journal
Video of Chris and I closing down DA's colo
TLDR; The entirety of DA was physically moved from one place to another over the past 3 weeks. WHA??! Insanity. Here's a video of us shutting down the old colocation facility and feeling pretty good about it. LONG VERSION; On August 26, 2015, Chris Bolt (@chris) and I went to downtown LA where DeviantArt was hosted to dismantle the last of the colocation facility we inhabited for 13 years. DeviantArt has completed its transition to AWS after a long, long process that has taken @Chris and his team probably the better part of this year to complete. THANKS PAUL! @banks, and JESSICA! @petralfire - It's amazing to me how insanely complicated...
It's true that I haven't been active on DeviantArt for years, and that's probably not going to change any time soon. Not only have my interests changed, but I'm not even sure there's a 'real' community left here.
However, the issue has been exacerbated for a long time by being unable to access the website entirely. Looking around online, it seems like I'm not the only one who gets presented with these unprofessional and unhelpful error pages when trying to access the site:
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What this image does tell us is that DA uses Amazon CloudFront as the middleman for their web hosting. Similar to CloudFlare, it's designed to provide DDOS protection, among other things. However, DA's CloudFlare seems to be configured (either accidentally or deliberately) to block pretty much any VPN node from any VPN provider.
Unlike many other websites that do similar things, DA provides no way for users to prove they're a human by ticking a box, completing a CAPTCHA, or allowing them to log in
At the time of writing, the new Eclipse site style is being forced upon new users with no way to opt out. I'm unaware of when everyone else will be forced onto it, but I imagine it'll be soon, before the end of the year.At the moment, DeviantTidy isn't yet ready for Eclipse because it's so radically different. Some features are no longer required, such as indent guides (these are included in Eclipse). Which features do you value the most that you want to see ported over? And what aspects of Eclipse annoy you the most, that I might be able to fix?
