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Something for Everyone
The deviantART community is incredibly deep and diverse. Every day, amazing art is produced that appeals to all tastes. Our goal in sharing and exposing the deviations in deviantART's Popular section is to showcase this depth and diversity as convincingly and fairly as we can.
Fair Exposure
DeviantART's algorithm for Popular browse results is known as Fair Exposure. The goal is to maximize the display of the most popular deviations in a variety of topics (styles/genres/art forms). Fair Exposure increases the probability that someone will see something that they personally like in Popular results. In short, with Fair Exposure, the community is exposed to a varied cross-section of deviantART. It uses an algorithm that is "fair" in nature -- meaning not biased toward any topic, yet still based on popularity.
Why is Fair Exposure needed?
Ranking deviations based on raw popularity alone is something that deviantART hasn't done since 2008. While using raw numbers has some benefits, it also has many problems. One major issue is that it inherently favors the already popular -- making that which is popular more likely to be seen, gaining even more popularity.
Different styles and types of art appeal to different deviants, and those deviants use the Favourites system in different ways. For example, fan art enthusiasts are more likely to Favourite a deviation based on subject, whereas, fine art photography lovers are more likely to Favourite based on technique. Thus, comparing the number of Favourites on one type of a deviation to another is like comparing apples to oranges.
Fair Exposure's task is to strike a balance between showcasing depth (i.e. deviations that are popular with many individual deviants) and breadth (i.e. deviations that are popular with a wide variety of deviantART sub-communities). We do this with an algorithm, the components of which are adjusted from time to time to produce an inherently fair outcome in terms of art that would be of interest to the broadest spectrum of deviants.
Fair Exposure 1.0, 2.0, and 2.1
Version 1.0 of Fair Exposure was launched in February 2008, and the next set of updates (2.0) came in December 2011. Fair Exposure 1.0's computation became slower and slower with every deviation added to deviantART. While it executed in a reasonable amount of time in 2008, it was no longer updating fast enough for the front page. However, Fair Exposure 2.0's computation was structured differently and was faster.
While Fair Exposure 2.0 had been in development for quite a while, some of our more sophisticated ideas weren't able to make it into the initial release. The changes in Fair Exposure 2.1, made in January 2012, are very minor -- mostly code reorganization, and a few bug fixes that addressed rare edge cases that sometimes influenced front page results. We know this new version of Fair Exposure is a better representation of the world-class art produced by the deviantART community.
We have a variety of improvements coming down the pipeline -- in particular, improvements having to do with topic "accuracy" (i.e. becoming better at detecting the topics of a deviation) and "popularity" (i.e. detecting whether a deviation is "popular" amongst a niche group or has broader appeal).
Fair Exposure 2.1 is not inherently more "random" than Fair Exposure 1.0 was. The most significant determinate of order is still in deviants' submission/viewing/Favouriting patterns in general. Similarly, all determinations of popularity are made by looking at the data, with no artificial fudge factors biasing towards one topic or away from another. In particular, it does not replace art from a "popular" deviant (or topic) with art from a randomly-selected "unpopular" deviant. Fair Exposure 2.1 explicitly attempts to select "popular" deviations that showcase as many "popular" topics as possible, whereas, in Fair Exposure 1.0, there was no explicit goal to showcase a wide variety of topics. This does mean that if, for example, a deviation that showcases "people" and "photography" is displayed, the next several deviations are unlikely to be other "people" or "photography" deviations, unless they are also extremely popular.
Sharing the Love
Changes to Fair Exposure and Popular browse are in the interest of highlighting the best from a wide range of deviants and showcasing an array of styles and genres. Keep in mind that you can always browse by your particular interest using the category tree or join a group that matches your interests. We're a large community, and with Fair Exposure 2.1, we hope to bring more deviants into the spotlight.
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Comments: 1270
ancestorsrelic In reply to ??? [2012-02-18 23:35:04 +0000 UTC]
I am just asked myself too, how it works. I just browsed the "3D-resources" by choosing "Popular all Time" and the few ones that had got a DD are freezed on the top as ever... but the rest seems to be mixed up totally randomly now.... including simple screenshots taken from video-games on the first page
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vladimm In reply to ??? [2012-02-18 07:42:59 +0000 UTC]
No need for "ACTA" !
here on dA we've got "Fair Exposure"
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vladimm In reply to ??? [2012-02-18 07:18:08 +0000 UTC]
here are 3 links (pages 2-4) of the most popular deviations of all time. Enjoy.
[link]
[link]
[link]
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vladimm In reply to ??? [2012-02-18 06:58:41 +0000 UTC]
All of my popular deviations seem to have been vanished/removed/disappear from their category.
When i browse all time popular the first page is ok but from the 2nd i can see the worst deviations ! Total failure.
Thank you dA for making all my efforts disappearing, like tears in the rain
..That is called "Fair Exposure"..
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Hely29 In reply to ??? [2012-02-16 21:38:48 +0000 UTC]
I got my recent deviations systematically deleted from the "popular"... so you can't see them anymore at all!!!
well, to me doesn't sound that fair....
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Joe-Roberts In reply to Hely29 [2012-02-20 03:02:49 +0000 UTC]
Half of mine have vanished too.
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DeathInTheReaper In reply to ??? [2012-02-11 20:29:12 +0000 UTC]
I think this system would ACTUALLY work if you guys did more policing and enforcing on your rules. I'm seeing so many mis-categorizations that it's not even funny. I can understand you guys being understaffed but honestly it can't be that hard to get volunteers is it? I mean this site is huge and it wouldn't take much for you guys to post a journal like this asking people to submit a form or whatever to volunteer...
Anyway, I am honestly not noticing much of a difference with this new system. I'm still seeing a lot of the same stuff on page one with no real change. And I hear tell that fanart and some of the more popular digital art form categories are now being largely blocked form hitting the front page? I'm not really sure if this is true or not but that hardly seems fair if it is. I understand you guys wanting less popular art forms to also have their chance to see the front page but it's not fair to less popular artists trying to get more exposure in those popular categories from ever having a chance at seeing page one. I've sort of given up long ago at ever being able to see my stuff reach page one regardless of how hard I try to improve and get decent exposure here.
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RMXTrailMix In reply to ??? [2012-02-02 10:13:16 +0000 UTC]
Let the stars be your guide
GOOD BAD
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RMXTrailMix In reply to ??? [2012-02-02 09:32:32 +0000 UTC]
I'm not a fan of either Popular Deviations or Daily Deviations, I just collapse the page and select newest.
Just give me the option to avoid those two categories, and I'm happy go lucky.
The Groups feature has done much in getting the unseen seen.
So has there been any My Little Pony / Brony art on the popular page yet? on Daily Deviations?
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lucid-light In reply to RMXTrailMix [2012-02-10 14:03:44 +0000 UTC]
why not daily deviations? they serve very well to make unseen seen too!
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hoschie [2012-02-01 18:14:24 +0000 UTC]
The biggest Point for me, to get a member of deviantart was the "famous" work of the best deviant artist on the frontpage and the best of (month, week,... list)
I see work of lithiumpicnick, suzi9mm, natalie shaw and much more....
I will see the pictures with the most favs. and not this boring randomizes stuff.
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PhantomTeacup In reply to ??? [2012-02-01 07:39:59 +0000 UTC]
I'd like to see a system that features work based on quality, not the popularity of the artist or subject matter. There are a lot of really amazing artists on here whose work goes unnoticed, and all of the current systems rely on a piece or artist already having a large amount of attention, while quality ceases to be a factor.
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pugglemuggle In reply to ??? [2012-02-01 04:25:32 +0000 UTC]
I have to say.... I'm not much of a fan of this new orderings system. While I agree with the intentions, I'm not sure if they were executed properly. The only thing the new system seems to do is bring out rather low-quality deviations....
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rincharmie In reply to ??? [2012-01-30 01:37:50 +0000 UTC]
Wow I wish people would get this worked up about issues in the world that actually mattered...DA how dare you take away their precious animu!!
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DBreDBULL In reply to rincharmie [2012-02-01 02:04:55 +0000 UTC]
aww c'mon and live a little.
Yeah the world is fucked up but we can worry about that as well as the simple things we like
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EkoGlitch In reply to ??? [2012-01-29 22:10:49 +0000 UTC]
How to artists look at those who favorite artworks, really?
Now a favorite, I would think that a favorite would mean that person takes a real liking to the artwork and thinks it deserves to earn a favorite to let others see it too.
The person who of which favors the artwork are being treated as if every art they see will be instantly loved, like if we see a greater quantity it will be just the same quality.
I don't know how these 'unexposed' artists think, but I for one respect favorites and those who favorite, I don't like shoving my work down people's throats nor do I whinge and complain about not being on a front page. And most of the time, the art being shoved down throats is not that good tasting. Meaning bad. Meaning really bad. Meaning I'm sick of ponies, anime, half-naked and half-effort pictures.
The front page being changed to newer artworks has it's perks, but there seems to be furthermore downfalls than it had before. It takes a lot of love to be on the popular All Time, take a look at the artworks, they are amazing, artworks that make you smile, they all deserve to be on the front page.
People who favorite actually have feelings, taste and emotion to artworks.
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RMXTrailMix In reply to EkoGlitch [2012-02-02 09:46:24 +0000 UTC]
...also that's why you have "mudkips" in your username - it's a cue from what's popular.
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RMXTrailMix In reply to EkoGlitch [2012-02-02 09:43:23 +0000 UTC]
People do things because they take cues from other people who do things.
Deviants often favorite to stay on the bandwagon. The wagon is currently being pulled by a pony with a pictoglyph emblazoned on it's rear.
People take cues from each other, that's why we have a "mystery illness" among twelve girls and one boy going on in Le Roy, New York.
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shellegg In reply to ??? [2012-01-29 19:08:57 +0000 UTC]
..............................................huh?
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rinalism [2012-01-29 17:22:33 +0000 UTC]
I think there should be two options for the "popular" section on the front page.... People who want to see this new fair browsing stuff can, and people who want to see the things that are actually popular can view those as well. >.< I don't like anything on the front page now because the categories are weird and the quality isn't as high as what we used to see....
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RMXTrailMix In reply to rinalism [2012-02-02 09:52:45 +0000 UTC]
The quality has always been skewed; some of the former popular artists ain't popular any more.
Unless they resort to drawing the next MLP/Twilight/Avatar/Animu...etc
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rinalism In reply to RMXTrailMix [2012-02-02 23:10:26 +0000 UTC]
That's not the point. If that's what is popular, then that's what should be in the popular section. I want to see what is actually popular, not nudity and webcam photos.
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Erin-Flight In reply to rinalism [2012-01-29 21:48:28 +0000 UTC]
That would be good, I want to see the really good stuff.
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Cujjo In reply to ??? [2012-01-29 16:49:45 +0000 UTC]
I must stupid but I don't even understand this. xD
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SarcasticUnicorn In reply to ??? [2012-01-29 02:18:16 +0000 UTC]
What is this communist hippy crap?! Of course those who remain on the popular page are going to continue to increase in popularity thus giving us little guys less of a chance for exposure-but this?! This is not the solution! With this "Fair Exposure" bull the community has less voice of opinion and freedom of choice on what we think is front page worthy.
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bull363 In reply to SarcasticUnicorn [2012-01-29 16:28:55 +0000 UTC]
I like the fact that you are using my name for something shitty.
deviantART muro drawing
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vajrasana In reply to ??? [2012-01-29 00:40:03 +0000 UTC]
I feel like the only one who misses just using the actual numbers back in 2008...
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Lil-Hawk In reply to ??? [2012-01-28 20:33:01 +0000 UTC]
(From my comment on the site update)
I doubt this is an intended outcome of the new search algorithm, but many, many popular deviations which used to top the search results before are now eliminated from the search results altogether, not only when sorted by popularity but also the "newest" setting, and even when searching specifically for a certain deviation, or searching the artist by name. The number of search results stays true to the actual amount, even though many of the results that should be there aren't. I'm all for giving new artists/deviations their well deserved exposure, but now many deviations are unsearchable and get no exposure... and I wonder if it affects only popular (in numbers) deviations or new ones as well, and what I might be missing out on when searching my favorite topics. I mean, even my own deviations won't come up when I search my own gallery for them, and I know they're there, but they've now become unsearchable as well as many others.
I also support the idea of a separate search result option for fair exposure, since it really doesn't have anything to do with popularity anyway, they're two totally different things.
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raincoastchris In reply to Lil-Hawk [2012-01-28 22:27:04 +0000 UTC]
Fair Exposure only affects brows ordering, not keyword search results. $mccann confirmed in an earlier comment that the search algorithm hasn't changed recently, so I don't know why you're experiencing the problems you report.
That said, if you can give specific, reproducible examples of searches that aren't working the way you'd expect, it would greatly help staff to narrow in on any undiscovered bugs that might exist.
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Lil-Hawk In reply to raincoastchris [2012-01-28 23:36:50 +0000 UTC]
Okay, here's an example from my gallery. I searched for "Warhawk" and got the 2 "unpopular" results showing up. [link] However, this image [link] isn't showing up anywhere in the results. It won't show up in site-wide search results either, no matter what search term is used for example [link] or in search for all my deviations. This deviation is simply unsearchable. It's one of many in my gallery experiencing this problem, and it's not just my art, I've seen a lot of art by other artists disappear from the search results completely. I know the algorithm isn't supposed to give exposure by eliminating popular results (and other innocent random results?), but this is what I've been experiencing.
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raincoastchris In reply to Lil-Hawk [2012-01-29 00:45:24 +0000 UTC]
Thanks for the detailed report!
Unless you submitted that deviation exclusively to a group (and I don't think you did), it should be coming up in search results. Since it's not, it looks like there's likely a bug in our search index. We'll look into finding and fixing this as soon as possible!
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rachelkpoulain In reply to raincoastchris [2012-01-30 01:02:36 +0000 UTC]
Just wanna chime in and say that I get this problem all the time with keyword searches.
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Lil-Hawk In reply to raincoastchris [2012-01-29 01:07:57 +0000 UTC]
No, I didn't submit any of my deviations exclusively to groups. Anyway thanks
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cristina-otero In reply to ??? [2012-01-28 19:37:56 +0000 UTC]
I stand the point of doing this. But this is so unfair in many levels!
I usually had my work (photography) in the front page (usually from 8h to 1 week). Now you may say that I think this is unfair because I no longer have that many visits and favorites. And it's true.
But let me tell you, it was a pain to get to the first page. I remember when my work had one, two, five favorites. But I worked hard on my photography to get up.
Now what? All the hard work for nothing. This, even though I understand its purpose, is not completely right. Why don't you make another section for the real popular deviations? That, I think, would make everybody happy.
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kuraisekai In reply to cristina-otero [2012-01-28 20:18:23 +0000 UTC]
so basically, what you're saying is, you think that your art is more worthy of being on the front page than other people's art?
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cristina-otero In reply to kuraisekai [2012-01-28 21:00:06 +0000 UTC]
No, not at all, do not misunderstand me. Is that it took me a lot of time to get in the front page. And it 'hurts' that all I did, worked for, was for nothing. I do think this is a good way to showcase other art that is less popular. But like I said in a comment here, I think there should be another option to be able to see how it was before.
Also, I hate seeing work that no one can considerate as real art. I see a lot of porn pictures in the front page, and I just feel this is going downhill.
Now, hope you understand what my point is.
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NeoStockz In reply to cristina-otero [2012-03-07 15:34:34 +0000 UTC]
I understand your point exactly - you strove to improve your work, in order to reach a bigger audience. Makes perfect sense.
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cristina-otero In reply to NeoStockz [2012-03-07 18:37:32 +0000 UTC]
No. You really don't understand.
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Jeysie In reply to ??? [2012-01-28 14:52:22 +0000 UTC]
Couldn't we just downrate the popular fanart and promote the less popular fanart? People who draw for more obscure fandoms already get barely noticed, and this will just make it worse. Not all fanartists are Naruto and Bleach fans who get a million views.
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RMXTrailMix In reply to Jeysie [2012-02-02 10:02:54 +0000 UTC]
I love the idea
No means yes; yes means no.
It would force deviants to really think before ing. I can imagine what's being
ed like mad to be cast into Deviantart's hardest to find levels of being.
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Jeysie In reply to RMXTrailMix [2012-02-02 11:39:04 +0000 UTC]
Hey, don't look at me, honey, it's what DA is already doing with this update: downrating the popular stuff and uprating the less popular stuff. I'd just like them to not treat all of fanart as "popular" when it's actually only a tiny handful of fanart which is.
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daffodils-and-cocoa In reply to ??? [2012-01-28 14:02:24 +0000 UTC]
What would be nice, and I don't know if dA can yet support it, is something like amazon's "people who bought this, also bought _____" recommendation system. Thus, the search returns results that are more tailored toward "people who +fav'd what you've got in your faves, also +fav'd _____." Be even better if that was doable on individual deviation pages, so that you can be directed to deviations by artists other than the one you're currently viewing that is relevant.
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Arumagedon In reply to daffodils-and-cocoa [2012-01-29 08:32:31 +0000 UTC]
I think your idea is very nice. oVo
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saevuswinds In reply to daffodils-and-cocoa [2012-01-28 16:22:02 +0000 UTC]
Thats really cool.
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