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ZeroRaptor [2010-05-22 03:50:49 +0000 UTC]
This... is so beautiful, it brings a tear to my eye. :')
I love it.
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Anakita4342 [2010-05-18 23:41:42 +0000 UTC]
Thats awesome~
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fineartbyandrewdavid [2010-04-01 02:46:32 +0000 UTC]
cool
i remember that version they had back in 2003
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Ponylover999 [2010-02-11 15:45:15 +0000 UTC]
I like the idea alot! I mean if I could walk around DA in blue I would die of epicness.
But I REALLY don't like the news part. Is there a way to not see that?
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Purple-Eevee [2009-09-12 15:36:01 +0000 UTC]
Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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IAmTheArchitect [2009-09-03 02:45:22 +0000 UTC]
It's fun to look and see what it did end up looking like, eh?
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Charleston-and-Itchy [2009-07-12 01:03:44 +0000 UTC]
I wish this was version 7, the next-generation.
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Pixel-777 [2009-06-03 17:17:44 +0000 UTC]
I see what you did there. Lol. You made the one article have 1337 +favs. XD
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echo-song [2009-05-22 19:53:51 +0000 UTC]
it looks nice.
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T0j [2009-05-21 09:51:19 +0000 UTC]
cool - looks really nice - deviantArt like!
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JetJames [2009-05-16 12:18:13 +0000 UTC]
I think if you whack a big world globe amongst all the text, and have it there as a application that can find deviants/ artists closer to their area. It would be cool to find artists from deviantart to exhibit with. I reackon their would be a fair few in my area, just dont know it.
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BoffinBrain In reply to JetJames [2009-05-17 01:35:19 +0000 UTC]
There was a local deviants feature a while ago, but it was removed due to dA worrying it could be used to find people's locations too accurately and hence used for stalking. Something similar should come back in the future, I hope, and simply work on a region-by-region basis.
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JetJames In reply to BoffinBrain [2009-05-17 10:34:04 +0000 UTC]
I do recall that feature, I used it. A australian art site, noise.net is using the same idea that I speak of.
You probably have better luck stalking on google earth than on deviantart lol !.
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BoffinBrain In reply to JetJames [2009-05-18 02:39:07 +0000 UTC]
Well that's the thing... Originally you entered your longitude and latitude, and often people would get those coordinates by entering their address into Google Maps, and therefore it would give an extremely accurate answer. Someone else would change their position and find out their distance from another deviant, and progressively get closer and closer with each estimate until they knew your address, essentially.
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WeNDoR [2009-05-08 23:38:02 +0000 UTC]
indeed ... it looks clean and userfriendly
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seVereo [2009-05-08 22:32:41 +0000 UTC]
I think your nearly there, I have a few pointers to up the wow factor a bit.
The site should be very long I think and have a good vertical presents that scales to the number of Artworks you selected to be displayed. I love the fact that I can say how many to display, would be cool if people could type a number to tell DA to display say 35. This way people could make sure the art fits on there screen with/without scrolling. Its a bit of web 2.
I think the + idea where you hit the little button to show or hide the art can work, just not in the way to have showen. Would be better to place them up the top, then have the artboard area reload in realtime (its a different page to the webpage itself) so its always updating as soon as new art is uploaded while the rest of the page remains static.
This saves bandwidth and is bloody cool. Its sort of like that sitback system (you might be able to use it actually)
Artwise, I have a few pointers.
Good to see you have a grey for the background, this isn't going to distort the art's colors.
I think it would look cool to have a really small indent (no more then 2pixel) around the artboard, it hones the eye onto the art so it doesn't feel like there is a host of other elements on the page.
Just has a personal note, it would be nice if you would support more file formats such as psd, riff etc. I find that some of my art the colour management isn't sticking to the file when it gets uploaded and not everyone has photoshop to fix it.
Would be pretty easy to do aswell, you just need a little file saving software to run serverside. I'm sure I'v seen it on other sites.
Or maybe support pdf, that would be cool also, could upload ready for print docs.
Just my 2c. its kind of a long story I guess for a couple of points
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BoffinBrain In reply to seVereo [2009-05-11 12:20:58 +0000 UTC]
I think that's a good list of suggestions.
Regarding setting the orientation and number of deviations on the page, it's just meant to be a summary, so for people who want to go and browse in more detail, many of your suggestions would be better suited towards the Browse pages. Having new deviations automatically pushed into the list might be cool, but could be confusing for some and cause one to lose their place while scanning, so it should be optional.
I don't know what you mean by 'artboard'.
As far as third-party formats are concerned, dA supports what browsers can read, essentially. It should be the responsibility of the user to export their file into something that others can see, namely JPEG, GIF, PNG, Flash or text. Only these types can be turned into thumbnails. They have the option to give the source file to download if they want others to take it. I think dA have other things to do beside making automatic preview generators for miscellaneous file types, although I can see why it would be useful.
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seVereo In reply to BoffinBrain [2009-05-11 22:47:53 +0000 UTC]
by artboard, I mean the area of the design that the art is pasted on. You say you support online file types when pdf is unsupported, this would be very useful it would display a thumnail of the pdf. Turtioals and guides would benefit hugely from it.
Yeah I think it should be optional and there should be a tick box, click the tickbox, the art starts to change when its uploaded and you sit back, when you see something you like, click it and it takes you to the deviant.
Your design is pretty sound, would love to see it online and working. check if this site is controled by a complex css you could have a drop down asking what design they prefer, similar to what forums use.
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QuintonCharles [2009-05-03 11:49:37 +0000 UTC]
Lol at 1337! XD
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HardToName [2009-04-27 22:38:59 +0000 UTC]
Sorry for not spurting out I love it like the other clones, but fact of the matter is, I dont love it. I like to view all new or all popular deviations depending on my mood on the dA front page, and I can't care too much for news, which takes up 1/3 of your screen there, plus I admire the customizable toolbar, which you seem to lack there.
Appreciate the good try, but not quite dead on in terms of improvement from the current one.
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BoffinBrain In reply to HardToName [2009-04-28 13:51:29 +0000 UTC]
Fair enough - but remember that this is just the FRONT page. If you want to do all the stuff you mentioned you can simply go to the BROWSE page. This multi-purpose front page will show new users everything that dA has to offer - not just a page full of thumbnails.
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HardToName In reply to BoffinBrain [2009-04-28 20:55:03 +0000 UTC]
Well it COULD be used as an unregistered front page, not a logged in one.
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BoffinBrain In reply to HardToName [2009-05-01 16:36:05 +0000 UTC]
Of course! Logged-in deviants have no use for the stuff in the bottom corner.
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T9581 [2008-05-21 23:26:33 +0000 UTC]
what are the chances of this being real?
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BoffinBrain In reply to T9581 [2008-05-22 19:54:24 +0000 UTC]
Given my experience, things don't change that much once they go into Beta, so it's probably too late.
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T9581 In reply to BoffinBrain [2008-05-22 20:19:26 +0000 UTC]
so when is v6 going to be launched?
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BoffinBrain In reply to T9581 [2008-05-24 08:45:23 +0000 UTC]
Probably on their eighth birthday in August.
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T9581 In reply to BoffinBrain [2008-05-24 13:18:24 +0000 UTC]
awsome and what improvments are expected with the new vesion?
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