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Former gallery admin/volunteer staff here (2004-2008): The site got bought by Wix a few years back and is a mixed bag at this point. It's had a long history o
by zeruch 5y ago
Former gallery admin/volunteer staff here (2004-2008):
The site got bought by Wix a few years back and is a mixed bag at this point.
It's had a long history of junior management/hubris making avoidable errors and missing opportunities to lead (I also attribute this to being led from LA, by very inexperienced management, where media/content properties see things through a very Big Content distorted prism in and of itself).
The site still has some charms, and its print service is still quite good, but overall it's killed much of the community that built it, and is trying to become...something that it doesn't seem to have articulated very well. While many attribute this to the "redesign" I think that's largely a red herring (the sites been redesigned several times, everyone kvetched ferociously and got over it) but its the underlying drivers of what the site is trying to extract from users, and the manner by which it is going about it that is more of whats detrimental to its long term stability let alone growth.
It's UX has always been a bit of a mess, now its still that way, just differently.
- PinkPigeon 5y agoWix are true experts at terrible UX ;) DeviantArt was the first place where I shared photography, a very, very long time ago. My account still works, funnily enough. It was a great place that reminds me of the MySpace / wild west days of the earlier internet. Good memories.
- zeruch 5y agoGood memories indeed. Which user were you? I've had an account the last 20 years, so... They never close accounts unless the user directly chooses to delete it, or they get perma-banned.
- rajishx 5y agothe product managers botched it, it's a shame it could have been so much better than this.
- zeruch 5y agoThe PMs were beholden to execs. At one point I interviewed for a PM role there, and realized they couldn't afford me to suffer that level of chaos. DA leadership was either bunkered in R&D projects, or glibly shifting gears every other week. It was mostly torpor-inducing, but occasionally totally exasperating. I imagine it was infinitely worse for the paid staff.