By now we've all gotten a good look at Eclipse. What will end up being the new permanent layout for all of Deviantart.com.
However, what about us users who aren't happy about it? Here are some helpful bits of information for you.
I've placed the useful headers in bold so you can scroll down and easily see them.
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>>> This WILL eventually be permanent. <<<
From ->
www.deviantart.com/comments/1/…DA staff said this:
"We've said it many times in comments. Eclipse will be the new DeviantArt and the old DeviantArt will be phased out. While we would love to keep the old version around, it just isn't feasible. Managing two versions of the site just doubles the amount of effort to maintain the site or move forward with anything. Adding new features means double the amount of design/engineering/QA/etc work, fixing bugs means you have to fix potentially twice the amount of bugs, not to mention new users would need to learn two versions of the site. It just isn't feasible to indefinitely run two sites at once. If we did this every time DeviantArt released a new version, we'd have nine versions of DeviantArt."
>>> How to go between Eclipse and green Deviantart? I DON'T HAVE A TOGGLE<<<
How to switch to Eclipse an dback without the Toggle
>>> Why don't I have a toggle / switch on my screen??<<<
On the top, upper right side of any dA! page, next to the caption "Eclipse" there is a toggle control that resembles a horizontal switch. Make sure that the switch is "Flipped" on the left side and it will switch your page layout back to the old layout. If the switch is "Flipped" on the right side, Eclipse will be applied instead.
According to
, long time members (Joined one year ago or longer?) will have the option to switch between the old layout and Eclipse while newer members (Joined less than one year ago?) will only have Eclipse applied by default (The toggle is not visible on their dA! pages. See "Edit (May 29, 2019)" in his informative page).
According to your profile, you've been here for seven years which means you should have the toggle visible on your dA! page as an available option.
from -
www.deviantart.com/comments/1/… My guess is that the dA! admins ensured that those of use with ten years or more membership here had the toggle available (I just made it into that "group" with nine years membership) since we would most likely be the first ones to complain if it wasn't so (Damn right)!
>>> Want to try out Eclipse but with the more familiar tea green color? <<<
>>>Been trying out Eclipse, hate it, and wish someone would listen?<<<Since Eclipse is going to be the permanent layout your choices are either
1 - Leave and find a snuggly new home on a different art site
2 - Learn to live with it.
3 - Honestly try using Eclipse. See what works. What doesn't work. Where could use some improvements? Then go provide honest feedback.
www.eclipsefeedback.com/Since we'll be stuck with it anyway, why not try and get your feedback heard? At worst, nothing will change. At best, someone on the team will pay attention and find your feedback useful to make changes we can ALL benefit from.
Don't really have anything to lose except a few minutes of your time, right?