With the launch of the Watch Feed, you can also now watch Collections made by other deviants. Collections are surfaced through the Watch Feed, creating a new way to discover and expose artwork on DeviantArt. Collections have been given additional exposure by appearing on deviation pages as well as tag pages.
“I am loving Collections as well. I am proud of my Collections and am glad they will finally be getting notice. And it also gives more exposure to the artists as this is more viral in nature than simply faving something then making an art feature journal to share it with others.” —gillianivyart
Managing Collections
When you watch someone, you’ll automatically be watching all of their Collections — but you can also choose to enable or disable watching Collections on a deviant-by-deviant basis.
To watch only specific Collections from a deviant, uncheck “Collections” on their watch settings (now you’re watching none of their Collections), and then visit one of their Collections and then click “+Watch Collection.”
If you’d prefer not to have one of your Collections displayed on other deviants' Activity Feeds, you can visit the Collection Options area of your Collection and check "Disable watching".
Collections on Deviation Pages
Art curators are among the unsung heroes of DeviantArt, and with these new changes, we’re now surfacing Collections on deviation pages, allowing you to discover curations of artwork that include that specific deviation.
Tagging Collections
Using the new Tags feature, you can now tag your Collections with relevant topics. Tags will display on your Collections. Relevant Collections will be displayed on tag pages, giving more exposure to curators’ work.
Share your thoughts on the new Collections features by posting a Status Update using the #Collections tag.
Artist credit: Wall of Art by Roky320
Collections as implemented by DA have been separated from folders in both organisation and structure, this is a mistake. It duplicates and potentially doubles the workload maintaining two disparate sets of content with similar names and structure. Folders and collections should be combined so that a collection becomes a selection of items extracted from various folders but still relating directly to them. The tools should be there to allow easy extraction from a folder and visually it should be made clear from whence the deviation comes.
I think DA have wasted their time on how they have implemented collections. Flawed and badly done.
It was bought recently. Within the last six months I believe.
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Love all the new attention on Collections, but the lack of this particular feature is still a glaring problem that really has no excuse for not being implemented yet. Not only would user collections be a lot more organized and less lengthy with most folders being inside other folders as opposed to extending someone's Favorites page for a few football fields like they do now, but incorporating subfolders would only enhance the newly-created tagging and 'More Like This' systems.
When I WATCH sb profile i have something like friend list where I can find everyone I'm watching
But with this collection...
I can't really find any of collection I clicked "+ watch collection"
Where should I find it?
< I know it's more for the Q&A but I didn't find any answer there neither D: >
Is there any way for me to know if people are watching any of my collections?
And is there, or will there be, a way to browse collections?
We could check this, actually. I added to watch one of your collections (Backgrounds). For now it doesn't display in my Watch Feed. Add something new there (anything - you can always delete it when the test will be finished) and let's observe the result.
I added something to the backgrounds collection. Let me know if it shows up.
On that same line with my watchfeed not changing based on what I do AFTER things have already showed up:
Because the creator of this collection (that I DO want to see) hasn't added to it in the last few hours, and because I can still see a person that I watch's collections since it wasn't effected by my "unwatching" after the fact, I can't find the new collection that I want to watch since it's bogged down. (If you can understand that? I think I made it sound a little confusing
Hopefully that gives reason to my first line above about easier browsing^
Yeah, as I thought it appeared right away.
This behaviour (I mean the Watch Feed logic) is really a little bit... illogical? I mean that you expect system to do one thing and it does another. It's still raw for sure, but it's natural for the new things, actually - to be raw and imperfect.)
Otherwise, I think that this is a good idea as long as it can be disabled.
I also get told twice whenever I submit art to one of the groups I follow. Once in my watch feed as a new deviation in the group, and once in my correspondence as the group accepting me submitting it.
Anyway, while I don't yet know if "Artist X faving something by Artist Y" will specifically cause a double-up in your inbox, it's safe to assume it will because there's precedents of double-ups occurring when aspects of our inbox interact.
though i meant clean up just cause i have a bunch of random stuff XD not so much "dirty" content. though i guess since tis a mess it makes it dirty xD
and lol! maybe you will xD but would be funny to see who watches it XD
My watchers can only see my updates or submitted deviations before.. NOW, they can see what I collect too?? I mean, everything I fave from now on also appear in their notifications??