Connecting you with your watchers.
The Watch Feed creates a sequential stream of activity from your watchlist, including deviations, Journals, Collections, Status Updates, Polls, Forum threads and Critiques. Status Updates let people share quick updates about what they’re working on or what inspires them. Find an awesome deviation? Share it in your Status Update.
As we designed our upcoming Mobile app, we understood the need to build something streamlined and direct to deliver what you want to watch. The Watch Feed was built for smartphones and tablets. While we love the robust tools available in the Message Center — and they’re not going away — the Message Center is not an environment that works well on mobile.
Connect With Your Watchers in New Ways
The Watch Feed and Status Updates let you connect with your watchers in ways not previously possible. In the Watch Feed, deviants can easily interact and comment on artwork and content shared by your watchers.
"With Status Updates, I am closer to the people I watch, which I feel adds a deeper sense of appreciation for their artwork. It's nice to know who is behind such incredible work!" —InsomniaDoodles
Status Updates
The Watch Feed also includes Status Updates — a new way to easily communicate with your watchers. Status Updates are a great way to share quick updates. Give the world an insider’s peek at a work-in-progress or let your fans know you’ll be livestreaming a drawing soon. Share the work of an artist who inspires you, talk about current events, or start up a conversation that could reach new audiences!
“I've been wanting an easier way to notify my watchers of things. This makes it easier with the Status Updates, instead of having to make an entire Poll or a Journal for a small issue or update.” —TheWickedBeast
Resharing Content
Using the “share” button, you can easily redistribute interesting content or Status Updates to your watchers. Using Status Updates and the “share” feature, trends, news, and art will spread through the community like never before.
Controlling Your Watch Feed
If an item is removed from your Message Center, it will also be removed from your Watch Feed. You can customize what appears in your Watch Feed by editing your Manage Friends settings for specific deviants. (These settings apply to both the Watch Feed and the Message Center.)
If you choose to unwatch a deviant's content (for example, Journals), existing Journals will remain in your Watch Feed; however, future Journals will not appear.
Artist credit: Open up by moiret
Fair Exposure and miscategorization
Go to your activity and click on the date that the status was made. (it might say 1 day ago or Aug 16, 2016 or something) It''ll take you to see the full status update. Then just press the little arrow to the side, and you should be able to delete it!
Is the activity under Watch or the Activity tab in Notifications? I can not find the status on either tab.
And is this on the mobile site or desktop?
And I think the status might be to old to show up in the activity widget. I tried doing that ;m;
But!! I found out how to delete it by signing in with another account and commenting on the status on the app.
On Desktop: The comment and old status shows up in my notifications and I can go to the status and delete it from there!
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My suggestion is(are), aside from making it available to turn off in inbox;
is also to have its own section on individual page, making it as "username.deviantart.com/status", and/or have its own widget (instead of mixed with activity) on the front page. Poll section is a good reference for this. I personally prefer to bookmark a link and check them regularly than getting updates in my inbox (which will be mixed with other people's updates).
otherwise thank you! keep up the good work, dA : D
imo all of these unwanted updates of what people are doing is not dA's fault... it's the users way of using it, which can't be helped : ( not all people here (even the artists themselves) intend to fully utilize dA professionally. dA may need to be stronger on coming across as art gallery tbh, not facebook/twitter with advanced submission options.
Like what's the point of that
Does any other website do that?? Nooo
journals and polls ? it's pissing me off.
that should be an option.
Oh, come on - I disagree with all the people saying that you should ask us before every design decision, but at least give people the option to switch them off - it's not rocket science.
I have well in excess of 200 watched deviants on DA - you really expect me to spend the time to go through each one turning off a "feature" (read: annoyance) that I didn't ask for or opt into but was suddenly just saddled with? Just give me a global toggle!
Are you really surprised at people being upset??
I really hope at least one of the admins is reading these messages seriously.
Hope that helps! I find them very annoying, and they make my dA lag. But this definitely cuts the time from 20 mins to about 5 seconds.
I got 30+ "status update" notifications in less than a day! This is ridiculous! I understand defaulting this new feature to "on" so that people know it's there, but I was expecting to see ART. Not a Twitter extract.
butcan we turn the status messages off