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So Eclipse is ComingSEE MY LATEST JOURNAL ON THIS HERE:
I'd like to organize a proactive event to show DA the possible results of a permanent Eclipse change-over. Instead of deactivating your accounts for good, or indefinitely boycotting the site, I'd like to make a Statement of Silence for those Users against Eclipse. Starting May 1st, I will not be active on Deviantart. I will not submit new deviations, journals or even visit the site for 3 Days time. From 12:00AM CST May 1st to 12:00am May 4th. (3 days) I ask all other Users who wish to keep old Deviantart to join me in this statement of silence.
Not Only Is Eclipse Difficult to Navigate, It is so close to Plagiarism it isnt funny. How they aren't in a Lawsuit with Artstation is beyond me!
Look at these site comparisons!
<- DA Eclipse Artstation->
Comparisons Courtesy of V0IDSPACER
Now I'd like to point out several people have told me that the similarities may be due to the fact artstation and DA are both now owned by Wix.
I honestly would need to do some research to see if this is true or just speculation. Update
ArtStation is NOT owned by Wix as some of our sleuthy commenters have discovered!
it is owned owned by a company called Ballistiq but is run as its own entity.
www.artstation.com/about/compa…
"ArtStation is proud to be independently run. With no external investment, we grew our business from humble beginnings to one of the largest websites on the Internet. Being independent keeps us close and accountable to the community that we serve."
This was just confirmed to me by a current employee of theirs. ^^
Even DA's New Logo has Been Questioned as Plagiarism:
www.creativebloq.com/logo-desi…
Perhaps the abrupt halt and slow down of site traffic will show DA team members the devastating effects this could have on their audiences they cater to. They have failed to listen when we speak out... perhaps they will listen to The Sound Of Silence.
#TheSoundOfSilenceMovement
Please Feel free to share this journal to get on board and spread the word.
Some have said this is getting attention elsewhere as well so feel free to share to your instagrams, twitters and so on as well.
Feel free to Translate this to Other Languages as well!!
Lets get it out to as many eyes and artists as possible!
Also, please no negative commentary. This is about supporting one another. Not Being malicious to DA or other usersSet an Alarm, or Follow Me, I will Post a Reminder Journal On the Day Before!
The Sound of Silence - Core Refund Tickets?Hello there!
Creator of #TheSoundofSilenceMovement here.a fellow DA User noted me :iconrandomchiz: with another intriguing idea.
That users send in support tickets asking for refunds on their Core. Now I know the majority of you will probably cut out core if you end up leaving indefinitely or even if you stay, since all them pretty perks are no longer available. And I highly doubt that DA will actually Refund anyone. However perhaps the flood of refund requests might make a statement as to the loss of their revenue in that regard. The double-edge of this blade however, is that they /may/ decide to refund us, and we will be cut off our cor...
Interesting idea brought to me ^
also someone has made a #thesoundofsilencemovement Discord:
discord.gg/ZcWBxgk
THIS PETITION HAS REACHED 10k+ SIGNATURES!www.change.org/p/deviantart-te…
And here are several other petitions going around, if you all wish to sign any:
chng.it/SJThsrmPT2
chng.it/yY6pxYm67L
chng.it/rxrTBtYhb6
chng.it/T5SHByf2xw
chng.it/TVNpbtfHQZ
Some Supporters of my movement have been creating some wonderful art for us all!
Here is a Sound of Silence Icon!
Icon:
And a "We Can Fight" With a template so you can create this featuring your own character:
by the lovely Drakarra BIG UPDATE
A Group Of LikeMinded Deviants With The Right Resources Are Working on a New DA Alternative Site!!
Go read about their Project and SUPPORT THEM ANY WAY YOU CAN.
A Fun Thing that tracks the activity taking place on DA:
world.deviantart.com/ An Eclipse Redesign Plugin that might make adjusting a little easier
www.deviantart.com/isi-daddy/j…
And for those of you wanting to give Eclipse your feedback (hah!) There is this:
www.eclipsefeedback.com/
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Comments: 4097
MikuEvalon In reply to ??? [2020-05-01 01:35:53 +0000 UTC]
which page are you referencing to?
artstation-toyhouse ?
DA- artstation?
If you refer to artstation and da I already explained the differences and explained
that thousands of sites have a similar profile page,and if you look at this from artstation: magazine.artstation.com/2016/0…
you can even see the profile looks different than da when you look at it completely and not cropped and adjusted to be made to look like da.
the only thing "similar" is the profile nothing else.
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Howl-n-Hart In reply to ??? [2020-04-29 22:36:27 +0000 UTC]
Again, I did not say Artstation is sueing DeviantArt. Please don't twist my words. I shared my opinion on the matter. It is just that: an opinion. If you don't like it, as you mentioned earlier, don't read my content.
While I've only seen toyhouse folders I am not part of the toyhouse community so I cannot verify that.
As for my leaving DA, that is the end goal, once I have my affairs in order to migrate elsewhere. My activity until then will be the bare minimum and only in relation to groups that are unavoidable and my responsibility. Otherwise I will not be here, so in that light, I am already doing as you suggest. I'm leaving, which is sad since I've been here for 15 years.
Thanks again for the Intel, have a good night
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Username-91 In reply to Howl-n-Hart [2020-04-30 16:20:30 +0000 UTC]
It might be best for you to block this user because they are a lost cause. It is not worth arguing with them when they are deeply entrenched in their little world. They do not understand our frustration and our reason for the protest.
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Dovaah In reply to Howl-n-Hart [2020-04-30 11:13:00 +0000 UTC]
It may be best to block this one, howl; you've not shown any "false info." If they want to look at the two sites and intentionally ignore the obvious outright plagiarism, we can't stop them. It's just silly and delusional to look at the two sites and go "nope, not similar at all"
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MikuEvalon In reply to ??? [2020-04-29 22:00:50 +0000 UTC]
I don't want to stop your movement, I just don't want users being fed false info which can create problems.
I highly suggest before you take any info from users to make sure to check their sources, for example in my journal I use wix, devianart, articles, programmers and stuff that are legit sources.
While users are either guessing or just making false info.
Please be careful, as I said I'm not trying to stop your movement I just care for the truth.
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StarryTwinkleStorm In reply to MoonBae23 [2020-04-30 14:32:51 +0000 UTC]
It’s okay, when they'll fix, what is not that good at the moment (many things for me), but when they want to delete the old version, BEFORE the new one is ready... doesn’t make sense for me me tbh. We just should have a choice and should switch between the two versions and everyone could take, what they like to use. Everyone would be happy 🤷🏻♀️
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puppywinchester In reply to MoonBae23 [2020-04-30 12:14:10 +0000 UTC]
sucky layout for one, bugs from a year+ ago aren't gone, slow, ive seen people with beefy computers say it won't run correctly, it hurts your eyes and everything is massive for 0 reason , core membership is literally for nothing at this point
ive been on this website for 5 years, and even this stupid change is enough to make **me** leave.
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Squizzly In reply to MoonBae23 [2020-04-30 11:20:54 +0000 UTC]
They said that a year ago. It's been a thing for a year and it's still as buggy as day one, but they want to release it in a month.
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77PEBBLEROAD In reply to MoonBae23 [2020-04-29 21:10:32 +0000 UTC]
because the layout just sucks lol
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MoonBae23 In reply to 77PEBBLEROAD [2020-04-30 02:08:46 +0000 UTC]
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77PEBBLEROAD In reply to MoonBae23 [2020-04-30 06:18:18 +0000 UTC]
it's a giant, GIANT change from the normal da, they take away almost ALL the customization features, and honestly the layout is hard to manage and it's kinda ugly
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diesel2001 In reply to MoonBae23 [2020-04-29 20:19:24 +0000 UTC]
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MikuEvalon In reply to diesel2001 [2020-04-29 20:38:00 +0000 UTC]
Almost everything About Eclipse and more
Please read question 7
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sebopenedhell In reply to ??? [2020-04-29 18:30:35 +0000 UTC]
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XarTario In reply to ??? [2020-04-29 16:41:17 +0000 UTC]
Wix buying out dA is gonna be a disaster for both Wix and dA, especially when most people that were around before dA Eclipse are leaving when being forced to use dA Eclipse, and then Wix have no choice but to sell dA to another company.
Unless if there's an extension someone made that actually would let you switch to both old dA site and dA eclipse on May 20 and onward, or do a massive reform on dA Eclipse. Until then, I'll leave on May 21st, which this is my 4th year I had been on this site.
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XarTario In reply to ??? [2020-04-29 16:16:14 +0000 UTC]
Also, the world.deviantart.com/ is no longer a thing on dA Eclipse.
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Stu-Pixels In reply to ??? [2020-04-29 16:12:34 +0000 UTC]
Not to mention, the interface being unfriendly and hard to use makes neurodivergent people not want to use the website - so they're losing almost all of their neurodivergent userbase from this aswell.
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MysticM In reply to ??? [2020-04-29 14:51:23 +0000 UTC]
Question!
It says here that devART will Eclipse the site on May 20th.
Will the silence still happen from May 1-3 or will it be rescheduled for May 20-23?
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Howl-n-Hart In reply to MysticM [2020-04-29 16:10:14 +0000 UTC]
It's from the first to the third though there are many who are going for longer!
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MysticM In reply to Howl-n-Hart [2020-04-30 03:22:29 +0000 UTC]
Ah OK. As long as the act of protest will ge the message across. I too will be going quiet.
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ShiroAeon In reply to ??? [2020-04-29 14:19:04 +0000 UTC]
Two important things missing :
1) The strike/boycott should last way longer. I don't think that only 3-4 days of boycotting will do much. An entire week should be the minimum, a month even better. dA Staff has been ignoring their community for so long, in order to really make a meaningful impact, this should last much longer. Otherwise, they won't even notice it.
2) You should add ArtRise to your journal. It has been founded a year ago already, and it is very close to what dA used to be, but in better. We have previews available already and it seems that an Alpha/Beta might be near.
Their dA group : www.deviantart.com/artri-se
Their discord : discord.gg/ywd3Qxy
Hopefully, we'll be able to make things change.
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Howl-n-Hart In reply to ShiroAeon [2020-04-29 16:15:16 +0000 UTC]
I have stated this on a number of occasions, but I have reasons to choosing three days. This is meant as a statement not as a boycott, though many are interpretating it as such. When eclipse goes live permanently there will be people "boycotting" indefinitely. 3 days allows it enough length to take notice and mull things over by the DA team but it also allows us to soak up what little time of old DA we all have left to get our affairs in order. Like a taste of what's going to happen when a mass exodus occurs on the 20th
As for ArtRise, I'm currently working with a team on a site called Artspacious, and as we are a seperate Enterprise I don't wish to have people confuse my affiliation between the two. ^^
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ShiroAeon In reply to Howl-n-Hart [2020-04-30 16:20:00 +0000 UTC]
As I am not a watcher of yours, I was not aware of that and I'm sorry if you have to repeat yourself over and over again. Perhaps, in order to spare some time, you should copy/paste your explanation each time you make a new journal, so that newcomers don't always ask the same questions ?
However, again, I do still think 3 days is pretty short to make a difference in numbers worth noticing for the staff. I hope I'm wrong and that they will react, but seeing how they've been ignoring their community for so long I suspect 3 days won't be enough to pass along the message to them. I'm not saying everyone should boycott for ages, just that the silencing should last a bit longer. I don't know how many people intend to follow this movement but I hope the numbers will be significant enough so that, even if the period of "boycott" is short, they'll notice the change.
Ah well, I didn't know that either. I understand how that would be awkward to advertise someone else's upcoming website than your own. Perhaps you should state that in your journal, the fact that you are part of the dev team ?
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ArtisticKris In reply to ??? [2020-04-29 13:11:48 +0000 UTC]
I don't hate Eclipse, but since they failed to listen to our feedback, I might as well teach them that
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DragonRichard In reply to ??? [2020-04-29 12:18:43 +0000 UTC]
I know it's off topic but free hugs to everyone just thought i'd lighten the mood lol!
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Mahatma-Lynx In reply to ??? [2020-04-29 10:20:36 +0000 UTC]
I dont believe they want this website to survive
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Dreanpinup In reply to ??? [2020-04-29 08:53:15 +0000 UTC]
I agree! I'll be there! We want choice!
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TheFieryCharmeleon In reply to ??? [2020-04-29 08:14:31 +0000 UTC]
The Eclipse needs to go. DA is just shooting themselves in the foot.
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dlapastel In reply to ??? [2020-04-29 06:16:04 +0000 UTC]
Count me in for the boycott. Eclipse sucks.
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ToonFanJoey In reply to ??? [2020-04-29 06:06:34 +0000 UTC]
What if, for any reason, someone stays off DeviantArt for all of Friday and Saturday, but not all of Sunday?
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Okamikiba18 In reply to ToonFanJoey [2020-04-29 10:29:08 +0000 UTC]
We will send a killer waiting for you!
Seriously speaking, can't you wait until Monday?
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SorasLeafeon In reply to ??? [2020-04-29 05:02:18 +0000 UTC]
I'll have to remember, 'cause I'd like to see if this gets the message across.
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Howl-n-Hart In reply to SorasLeafeon [2020-04-29 06:24:11 +0000 UTC]
Give me a dev watch so you'll get my reminder journal/status/poll the day before!
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TeagBrohman15 In reply to ??? [2020-04-29 00:15:30 +0000 UTC]
I'll do it, but I don't think it'll work
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