AduroTri

It reflects my personal feelings toward the staff and just how competent, yet incompetent they appear to be. How is this possible you ask? Honestly, I don't know at this point. Because I've just become nothing more than a casual observer. I'm only here because there are those few people I still care about on the platform, as well to get in touch with artists for commissions and such.

But that's irrelevant.
What's relevant in this case in particular, is the fact that OBVIOUSLY Spyed and the DA staff haven't learned their lesson from THE LAST TIME something like this has happened, when they released something before it was ready. Namely, a new version of the site.

And when I say that, I mean, sometime around version 5 or version 6. When it was being released. While not many actually remember it or mention it anymore, I'm trudging up the past as this reminds me of the situation, in which, Spyed made the unilateral decision to my knowledge anyway, to release a new version of the site without so much as informing anyone beforehand. And then promptly goes into a sob story within 48 hours after the release about how "The previous version was buggy, laggy and glitchy" and "ran slow for him". When he just walked into the office. Yeah, obviously, we knew that was the problem. But, it was still a stable build. However, he ignored the beta testers at the time, and again, released it well before it was ready. Which ended up causing a complete disaster. And the worst part was, we didn't have a choice in the matter. It was thrust down our throats.

I can't tell you how bad this was, the site was crashing pretty badly at the time and though it looked prettier, it felt worse off in terms of its capacity to run properly. There wasn't a rollback like now. Where the Eclipse button was removed.

Instead, we were forced to live with this shit as Spyed tried to gain sympathy for what he did. Honestly. At this point, I vaguely remember it, but that is possibly the first in a long list of bad decisions the Deviantart staff have made.

Then we come to today. Obviously at this point, it does feel like there has been a little bit of learning and they made it a button, but it was still released before it was ready. Just as proof of the fact that they haven't learned much. Clearly, the problem with the site isn't the community, but the staff running the site as a whole.

I mean, some of them obviously do their best and I give them credit for that, but others. Others, they are out of touch and barely care, given how infrequently the staff are actually around and mow much they rely on automation.

It's disappointing really. No wonder why Deviantart is falling apart. I mean, just imagine how bad this could've been if they hadn't used a button to give the option in switching, instead, forcing it upon everyone when it was in the state it was in. Just imagine that for a moment. That would've killed every hope the site had and probably wrecked what little faith the community has in the staff.

Good thing they made it optional to start with. That saved them from the worst of it.