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mikkow

Retired from Freelancing
940 Watchers37 Deviations
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  • Sweden
  • Deviant for 22 years
  • He / Him
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Super Llama: Llamas are awesome! (34)
My Bio


Current Residence: Stockholm area

Favourite Movies
Aliens, Ghostbusters, Die Hard, Bladerunner, CUBE, Donnie Darko, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Equilibrium
Favourite Games
Thief, Fallout, SS2, CoH, CC3, Civ4, BF2142
Favourite Gaming Platform
PC
Other Interests
Tons of introverted intellectual stuff!

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Pageviews102.5K
Deviations37
Watchers940
Watching171
Favourites1.2K
Comments Made4.2K
Comments Received1K

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It does not mean that they cost to use (although I wish). They promote more browsing, which displays more ads for the person doing the browsing. Displaying ads are a source of revenue. I have also read that the stated purpose of them was to make people aware of the new 'points' system to come into place which as far as I understand, is going to be about commercial things.

I disagree in your interpretation of meaning. If someone favorites my work, the meaning is clear. A message with text even more so. If they just visit my page though (if I have the 'last visitors' widget enabled), does that have meaning? A 'Llama' is in the same category as a page view. It has no obvious meaning. The motive is impossible to know, though one can guess that their main motive is for me to go to their page and send a Llama back.
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Aye, I did read it (surprise!). My suggestions/critique does not qualify into that list because the "Site Style Customization" entry says that since the focus is completely on the art, they won't consider distracting stuff - while I am suggesting that it is not enough focused on art. The thing they say they are trying to achieve to begin with.

I'm not asking to throw out features (except maybe being able to browse user pages in a standard format which would go against the re-arranging people have done of their page layout) or make subscriber features free for everyone - instead I want to be able to choose what features I want to use out of the ones offered. Since they have in the past years added a ton of features there would also be a need to hide all things that are not used or desired. Have less features/clutter displayed as an option, to improve the 'art focus'. I did use features as the site has been similar to this (with Llama exception) for a long time. I named the ones I thought were a good improvement.

DeviantArt as it was 2002-2006 was pretty good as far as art focus, usability, interface etc went. I was a subscriber for several years and liked it.
Yes, subscribing nagging is there for a reason - to pester, inform and display ads for other stuff.

Anything brandished on a page that requires other people's actions to get it there can be an indicator of how popular, liked, appreciated, powerful, important etc someone is. Seen almost identical schemes over the years with the same results each time. To my dismay.

I can't decide what would be the most wanted improvement. A reduction of clutter, spam, enforcable standardization when browsing (like in the past), and a non-bright theme are all similarly important.