same as everyone else (i'm quit) i am deviantart user for 5 years but only active for 3 years. why tho? same as everyone else (yes, i'm repeating the title), the site becoming unusable right after eclipse replaces the old design around 2020. additionally, i despised to AI-generated "arts". so i'm include the reason why i'm quitting from the website.

Not for professional/serious artists This website is a bad website for professional artists. There's no quality control, meaning that something bad will get more views than professional-level art. You'll get a lot of porn, fetish art, low effort 'art', spam and even art theft. The new layout (Eclipse) copies Artstation's layout, and there's no way to turn it off. The moderators are lazy and don't consider hiring more people. If you take art seriously, don't use DeviantArt. Try something like Artstation or Pixiv.

I joined back in early 2000s due to… I joined back in early 2000s due to illness I was inactive for few years, I logged back in a few days ago and here are my observations. 1: its full of potentially illegal porn or underage anime girls and illegal Ai porn including beastie and furies. there are people who upload deep fakes of celebrities also 2:the DA forums are full of trolls and cyber bullies. when I returned the first thing I was greeted by was some creepy artist : Bartales that posts nothing but creepy images of children. 3:when you report images of minors DA staff ask you for proof as in they want you to prove that the artists uploaded minors before they will do anything which is wrong on so many levels. Avoid like the plague unless you are rolf harriss and if thats the case you are sick.

0/5 as an art site, 1/5 as a porn site. I quit DA a couple of years ago after being a member for 11 years, in hopes of returning when they sort out their problems. Unfortunately the site has become even worse in this period. Problem 1: PEDOPHILES. On a few occasions, AI-created nudes of children or outright child porn have appeared on my home screen. The moderators are slow to respond to reports so each time I've also made a report via cybertipline.org. Despite that, the problem persists. Moreover, the site is absolutely crowded with sick individuals who post dirty comments and engage in disgusting public conversations under any images of children no matter how innocent the content itself. Usually these people only favorite two types of content: pornographic or erotic photos and all types of images of young kids. I've taken this issue up with DA via reports, but each time they've failed to react in any proper manner. The site should be used as a 'gold mine' by law enforcement! Problem 2: PORN. Although they claim that porn has no place on DA, they host thousands of hardcore pornographic files at any given moment. In a few of the cases, the porn images are already reviewed by staff and cannot be reported again. They're also very inefficient at blocking porn uploaders for good, as often the exact same obscene images crop up by tens of different accounts, which takes me to the third issue. Problem 3: SPAM. The site appears to have no filters in place to tackle spam automatically, allowing users to spread all kinds of suspicious and harmful links with no restrictions whatsoever. This is of course taken advantage of by crooks on a massive scale. Reporting an account has little effect because by the time it gets taken down, multiple clone accounts spreading the same links are already created, kind of like beheading a hydra. Problem 4: STOLEN CONTENT. This problem is gargantuan on DA. There are probably millions upon millions of images stolen from around the web on that site, with some pirate accounts boasting thousands of stolen images. Pointing this fact out to the staff via reporting the content has no effect at all. To test it, I once reported about 50 gifs by an account that has uploaded 8,2K snippets from random porn videos over a period of 10 years, boasting 12K followers on their account. I provided each report with the explanation that the account only uploads pirated content. Not only did the account remain active with no restrictions, the exact same reported images were also kept untouched. Problem 5: INEQUAL RULES. The staff appears to turn a blind eye to the rule violations of paid Pro/Core accounts, allowing them to upload unacceptable content even when reported. On paper, a paid account doesn't have these privileges, but as ineffective as the reports are on DA, I've found that reports against paid accounts are even more so. I'm not even going to discuss the rest of the problems in detail, like the absolute lack of quality control and a tolerance for the so called 'barely legal' anime drawings. DeviantArt clearly doesn't give a crap about art anymore which is a shame because it was a great safe platform in my developing years as a young artist. I'm sad to say that I would not recommend the site to anyone anymore. Instead, I would suggest that all parents block this sorry mess of a website on the computer of their children to keep them safe from the lurking creeps and criminals who have found a welcoming home on DA.

How the mighty have fallen. I have been on this site for 10+ years and I am SHOCKED how a once beloved site has become such an unrecognizable mess. This site doesn't care about its users anymore. I've submitted multiple tickets in regards to missing comments in a reply thread over the years (4 years to be exact. Since Eclipse) and all are met with generic responses. I've even suggested possible solutions but they seem to be ignored. I've asked for a manager as well, in which case they 'mysteriously' stop responding. I have YEARS worth of roleplays I can't view due to their broken comment section. They don't care. Avoid this site, any sense of community that was once there has been destroyed.