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Open up by moiret

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

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strelitzium
please make showing status updates as "1 item only" a thing LOL ...the status looks fairly obnoxious with the big text already and even with 5 items shown that can stretch the profile scrolling in an exaggerating extent aiyo
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apsmHobbyist Writer
How do you access the archive of your own status udpates outside of your phone? I want to check something I wrote before on my laptop but can't find a way to access my previous updates.
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Bloodydude34's avatar
Bloodydude34
I deleted my status updates on my desktop page, but some still show up on the mobile app, can you please help.
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Annetta-T's avatar
Annetta-TStudent General Artist
ok so, they're deleted on my desktop page, but still show up on mobile? is there a way to get rid of them there?
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DkNuts's avatar
DkNutsStudent Filmographer
How do I add pictures to my status ?
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M-102's avatar
M-102
How do I view my old status updates?
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qhetto's avatar
qhettoHobbyist Digital Artist
To everyone asking how to delete one of their statuses, just do this!

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!
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Megiez's avatar
MegiezHobbyist General Artist
I have been looking all over the entire site for this.
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?
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qhetto's avatar
qhettoHobbyist Digital Artist
Add the activity widget to your profile page, then you can find the status. When you delete the status, you can remove the activity widget from your profile page again. As far as I know, it only works on desktop. c:
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Lishao
Because of your statement. Right here. It helped me to do something I've been looking to do for a long ass time. Thanks.
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Megiez's avatar
MegiezHobbyist General Artist
Thank you for taking the time to answer me. 
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! 
C:
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Fusion-Bioformer's avatar
Fusion-BioformerStudent Filmographer
How can you look through someone's statuses? I accidentally deleted a couple before I got to comment and I have no way of reaching them again.
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SodaCat17
is there any way to make the status update widget text smaller and less hideous? every time i try to add it to my page it makes the entire thing look blocky and uneven
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LillianCloudwing's avatar
LillianCloudwingHobbyist General Artist
How do you delete status updates?
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YarkarioLu's avatar
YarkarioLuHobbyist General Artist
I accidentally deleted my section, and was never was able to recover the status update section.
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Viridilly's avatar
ViridillyHobbyist Digital Artist
I find potential in Status Update, notifying little things (like opening up commission soon, and/or livestream) is certainly going to be useful. 

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. 
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dogswink's avatar
dogswinkHobbyist Digital Artist
how could I delete status updates?
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alizawren's avatar
alizawrenHobbyist Digital Artist
Why would removing the item from your message center remove it from the watch feed
Like what's the point of that
Does any other website do that?? Nooo
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Fusion-Bioformer's avatar
Fusion-BioformerStudent Filmographer
It wouldn't be a problem if they had a designated status page like journals, faves, and other stuff.
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alizawren's avatar
alizawrenHobbyist Digital Artist
Yeaah
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angelicvoids's avatar
angelicvoidsHobbyist Digital Artist
where do you even view your older statuses 
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Granitoons's avatar
GranitoonsProfessional Traditional Artist
Journals and status updates need to be seperate. Journals I want to see, FaceBook-esque status posts, I do not.
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moefoer's avatar
moefoer
how can i unwatch someone's status updates without unwatching their
journals and polls ? it's pissing me off.

that should be an option.
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