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DeviantART - Random Love
Published: 2006-01-15 17:02:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 24554; Favourites: 195; Downloads: 5637
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Description
Have you spread some Random Love today?TMNOTE!
This Greasemonkey Script is Obsolete as of deviantART v6's Release
You can now use deviantART's native Random Love-ish buttons using the following steps:
DescriptionThis script adds two buttons to the Main Toolbar. One which directs you to a Random Deviant and the other to a Random Deviation (using the inbuilt dA Random Link as shown at FAQ #535: Can I search for a random Deviant/Deviation? ).
TRY AND MAKE deviantART A BETTER PLACE
I have added a thread in the Suggestion Forum here to try and appeal to the powers-that-be to consider incorporating user creations, like this script, into the deviantART website itself, rather than relying on userscripts. Please visit the thread and lend your voice to this appeal.
Share The Love! - Get outside your comfort zone, find new friends, discover new art, explore the dA Community.
Want to Discover Unknown & Unrecognised Artists? - Check out DeviouslyArtistic.com a dA-related project by °jark and a number of other dedicated deviants.
Version History0.2 - Now dAv5-friendly!
0.1 - Initial Release
InstructionsIf you are experienced at all this, then just access the version you want from the links above in the "Version History" Section.
- Get Firefox (If you haven't got it already)
- Install it, of course.
- Get the GreaseMonkey Extension
- Restart Firefox (to Initialise the Extension)
- Click HERE and select "Install"
- Enjoy!
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Comments: 325
This would be a great idea if it were made available to everyone!
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I would love for this to be available to everyone.
Just a matter of having the dA Adminitrator add the code into the script which makes the toolbar.
But, I am not the Administrator...
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Now this is a great idea! This will sure help the unknown artists feel more welcome here, because everyone has been there, and we know just what its like. Congrats on the DD, and im glad this made it!
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Thanks! Too often in communities like this one, you get virtual goat-trails - a network of well-known artists gets established and get the majority of the traffic, whereas new, equally interesting, artists arrive but, being on the outside of the loop, tend to be overlooked. Hopefully this creates a level playing field in that respect...
Thanks, I was surprised by the DD, but it, and the attention, is very much appreciated.
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np
thanks for the new addition!
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I admit that much more into the browse button than the random buttons, but this is an excellent add to the button bar!
And it's never enough to spread devious love...
Congratulations on such a well deserved DD!
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I hope that the Random buttons become one of your more often used buttons here at dA...
Everyone needs a bit of "Random Love" every now and then.
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LOVE!
I LOVE random-buttons!
It's a shame that only a few communitys got them.
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Well, whichever communities don't have random buttons should be asked, hounded and harrassed until they do.
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Sweet. I downloaded this as soon as I saw it! This is totally great! Thanks for helping the community.
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You're very welcome.
Thanks for being a part of the community!
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A spectacular idea!
So why hasn't DA itself implemented these buttons in the core design?
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Not sure why it's not in the core design...
Any dA Decision Makers: I am available for employment....
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It's the only 100% safe way to spread the love in the naughties...
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awesome! then we don't have to check out the message centre everytime we want to view a random deviant/deviation
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One or two less clicks can add up to alot of time when you're doing it a hundred times a day.
Plus this way it's alot more obvious to newer members, like myself - encouraging us to use it more often.
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about time thats all i can say, thanks for bringing the idea into reality 8)
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The lines between fantasy and reality for me are often blurred.
Just sharing that blurring sensation, I guess....
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Fantasic idea!
I would install this... but I'm on my dad's computer and I don't think he'd appreciate me downloading anything without his knowledge!
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It's a very limited script - only affects deviantART.
In fact, you probably download more in just looking at pics than you would with downloading the items listed above...
But, that being said, I can appreciate and understand that you don't want to mess with someone else's computer.
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this is a wonderful idea. i'd love to use it, but... um. er. i am on a mac, using safari, and my brain simply refuses to cooperate with me. will i be able to use this on m'mac?
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It can be used on a Mac (as far as I can tell). I don't think Safari supports UserScripts (too sleep-deprived to research that too much), but if you use Firefox (which is available in Mac & PC versions) as per the above instructions, it should behave itself for you.
If not, let me know and I'll get out the whip!
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ack, i didn't know that firefox had a mac version. i am a dumb-ass. (pronounced duhMASS, and not DUMmass)
you still rock many socks, whip or no!
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Sounds great - except I'm so computer and internet-dumb I don't quite understand it. . . Congratulations anyway!!!
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I'm sure your son will be able to show you.
It really is pretty funky in that you always see something new using the random function... Unless you have already seen all 19,000,000 deviations...
Thanks for your comment, I appreciate it.
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The description shows how to do it step by step lol...
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This is great!It should be at dA!Poeple,ahem,deviants would get to know eachother better!Really great idea
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Well, spread the love and the word, yourself and we'll see what we can do trying to draw this community closer together.
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just what I was looking for... THANKS!
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this should be integrated to dA immideately .. hope admins noticed this one and help to spread it "officially" .. thanx alot for the great idea
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Even if the powers-that-be haven't seen it yet, it just means that we have more time to spread the word ourselves.
The more users doing this, the better.
(I was tempted to try and tag these buttons so that people using them would generate distinct logs for the deviantART website, but I don't know whether they will be looking all that closely to the logs of a site this busy... Might have to re-think that option at a late stage...)
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yeah you are right about it .. it will be much more difficult to track down it in the logs i guess .. but thanx a lot for the contribution mate
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That is a very nice modification to deviantart, it helps you to get to know others
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That's the idea - put us all outside of our comfort zone, and meet virtual neighbors we don't yet know.
Enjoy losing many hours online with this one (speaking from experience).
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Cool! What I cannot believe this was not done before. Those links in the message center are so hidden I haven't seen it. Now... How do you use it?
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Just follow the instructions section above and it should be smooth sailing.
Any problems though, feel free to email or note me and I'll try and help.
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Thanks! That was simple! Yay. Off to see unknown people.
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Great!!! i really love this feature... fantastic. 
P.s. only one thing: sometimes when i click the random deviation button, i go there [link] . how can i fix this thing?
Thanks for sharing Random Love, it's a brilliat idea.
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Hey Lars,
Thanks for your comment!
With regards to the wierd result for where the random deviation button goes - I would assume that's a problem in the randomising script dA has on their server.
It could be patched from this end (ie have the script go to another random deviation when it senses that it has been loaded on that ghosted location), but that wouldn't be the cleanest solution possible.
Best trick? Submit a bug report for it and see if dA can fix it.
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Thanks again and i wanna tell you another time how i appreciate your work. You're really great!
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Absolutely brilliant. 
It was space consuming keeping bookmarks open for the links.
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