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In our continuous effort to improve the deviantART experience, we're publishing weekly Site Updates to keep members informed and to gather feedback. Below is a list of recent changes to the site, bug fixes, and feedback that was brought up by members in the last Site Update.

What's New


Image Adjustments and Cropping in deviantART muro (Beta Testers)

A new set of tools have been added to deviantART muro for Beta Testers, for even more options when creating and editing artwork! The tools added include a way to crop images and make various changes to color settings, including contrast, tint, and color temperature. These changes give you an even broader means of creating dynamic works of art!




Change Log

  • The "My Journal" option when submitting a Journal has been renamed "Featured" for clarity and consistency. Changed by $shahyarg
  • Various pronouns across the site were made consistent. Many instances of "my" were removed or changed to "your". This includes changing "my.deviantart.com/..." URLs to just "deviantart.com/..." Changed by $muteor
  • Share buttons have been given a more prominent placement at the top of the deviation sidebar.  Changed by $allixsenos
  • Uploading an image to the deviantID widget briefly stopped working. Fixed by $muteor
  • There was an issue with adding files to Portfolio galleries. Fixed by $shadowhand
  • The navigation calendar on the Daily Deviations page did not work properly. Fixed by $shahyarg
  • Playback controls for deviantART muro redraws would not appear when browsing was set to zoomed in. Fixed by $muteor
  • Some modals had incorrect backgrounds. Fixed by $shadowhand
  • Clicking through pages on a deviant's Gallery would not always work. Fixed by $muteor
  • Icons on the Manage Deviations page did not reflect the state of the deviation. Fixed by $shahyarg
  • Sometimes ads would overlap modals when giving Points or purchasing Premium Content. Fixed by $muteor
  • Some Group Galleries had display issues with some or all of their Gallery Folders. Fixed by $randomduck
  • The Edit pencil icon would not appear on thumbnails in a Group's Featured folder. Fixed by $muteor
  • A very small number of thumbnails would display smaller than intended, resulting in a slight upscaling. Fixed by $shahyarg
  • +Watching deviants from the Manage Friends page did not always work. Fixed by $muteor
  • When setting up or editing one's Porfolio, removing an image from one gallery and adding it to another caused a duplicate error. Fixed by $shadowhand
  • Attempting to remove items from one's Wishlist did not work. Fixed by $muteor
  • Help information for portfolio domain settings was incorrect. Fixed by $shadowhand
  • Motion Book deviations would appear twice when browsing. Fixed by $muteor
  • Some Premium Membership notifications would display on Group widgets. Fixed by $allixsenos

deviantART muro


  • Partially transparent images made with deviantART muro were incorrectly shown with a shadow once saved to Sta.sh or submitted to deviantART. Fixed by $mudimba
  • In some conditions, the "Watch Redraw" button would not work properly. Fixed by $mudimba
  • When viewing a Redraw in Artist View, there were visual issues with some of the buttons. Fixed by $mudimba
  • When resizing a Chrome browser window with deviantART muro open, a bug in the browser would make the checkerboard transparency background become mis-aligned. Fixed by $mudimba

Sta.sh / Submit


  • When editing an item in Sta.sh, unchecking "download" in the publication settings no longer hides the downloads statistics of the sta.sh item. Fixed by $kouiskas
  • Changing Premium Content settings after publishing a deviation would only work if the price was changed to something other than the default. Fixed by $kouiskas
  • A saved Sta.sh item could be submitted to a locked category if the category settings had been saved before the category was locked. Fixed by $drommk
  • A watermark would sometimes appear on a deviation submitted at original size. Fixed by $kouiskas

Sta.sh Writer


  • It was possible for the thumbnail adjust buttons to not appear, if the thumbnail was hovered over immediately after being added to Writer. Fixed by $kemayo
  • Drawing on an image in deviantART muro and then returning to Sta.sh Writer would hide the resize handles for that image until you reloaded the page or switched it to a thumbnail and back. Fixed by $kemayo
  • When leaving a comment in Sta.sh, dragging a file onto that Sta.sh item's page would cause an error if done before the sidebar opened. Fixed by $inazar
  • Dragging images around inside of a Writer document would turn them into links in Chrome 26+ on OSX only. Fixed by $inazar
  • Improvements were made to the HTML allowed when leaving comments in Sta.sh. Fixed by $inazar
  • Sta.sh comments can now be submitted by pressing ctrl+enter (command+enter, for Mac). Fixed by $inazar
  • Emoticons sidebar will now say "No matches" if there are no results, instead of remaining blank. Fixed by $inazar
  • When leaving comments in Sta.sh, opening two replies and then closing the first one would cause an error. Fixed by $inazar
  • Improvements were made to Writer's ability to translate pasted text into formatting that is allowed on deviantART. Fixed by $Alisey
  • Thumbnails for Motion Book deviations would appear broken in Writer documents until submitted. Fixed by $Alisey
  • Pressing arrow keys could result in the page scrolling even when Writer had focus. Fixed by $Alisey

Your Feedback


Thank you for the feedback on last week's Site Update! Here's some of the feedback you left for us.
  • Deviants were mostly positive about the new Write a Journal Entry page. Some deviants voiced concern about not wanting to use rich-text or preferring to use HTML, and so we wanted to clarify for deviants who currently do not have access to Beta Testing. The new Write a Journal Entry page can be switched into HTML mode from the Edit menu, which lets you type purely using code and acts the same way that the old Write a Journal Entry page does.
  • Feedback on last week's discussion topic varied. Some deviants choose to look primarily at Featured folders and not explore the rest of deviants' Galleries, some like to explore specific folders, and others prefer to click Browse to view all of a deviant's Gallery at once.
  • When submitting deviations, some deviants place everything in their Featured folder, while others choose not to use the Featured folder, or only put what they consider to be their very best in the Featured folder.

Discuss!

The Journal Portal Categories
When submitting Journals, you can submit to a number of categories within the Journal Portal. Do you find these categories straightforward? Are there improvements that you would like to see made to the Journal Portal? Are there ones you would add, remove, or merge?


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Beauty as a Force of Energy

Thu Apr 18, 2013, 12:09 PM

























Louie Schwartzberg has made it his life’s mission to use his cinematic artistry to raise the alarm for public awareness of the dire situation we are facing in the possible collapse of our taken-for-granted natural resources. The “colony collapse disorder” currently decimating our honeybees was the prompt for Louie’s new movie, Wings of Life, which at it's essence, is a love story that feeds the earth.


Disney is releasing the film on multiple formats and portals everywhere this week. The film is a cinematic wonder of beautiful camera work capturing natural beauty— the finest example of a “dialogue” between nature’s own “narration” and the “journalistic” skills of an artist with a true poet soul. The pure magic of this mesmerizing film is the fruit of such collaboration.











Anyone lucky enough to spend a little time with *louieschwartzberg and become caught up in the spell of his desire to save humanity from itself will be familiar with his profound dictum: “Beauty and seduction are nature’s tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.” He refers here not only to people falling in love, but to bees, butterflies, bats and hummingbirds being attracted to the beauty of the various flowering plants that need to be pollinated so that their bounty (like honey and fruits and nuts, etc.) can continue to support human survival. I found the correlation of this idea to the very mission of art to be startling.




Could it be that because the indescribable beauty of nature’s seduction rages just a bit too far beyond the edges of our daily perceptions to be noticed, we will let that engine of human survival finally fail— a victim of our blindness to its beauty?










Joshua TreesReaching the Stars









Could it be that works of art— like Louie’s documentary— can “seduce” us into loving nature’s beauty, really seeing it for the first time, and thus finally gain our urgently needed protection?




Louie Schwartzberg is not only a poet with a camera, but is proving himself to be one of the most important guides to the survival of humanity on our rapidly depleting planet. When an artist could easily simply rest on his or her laurels for their achievement in artistic innovation and excellence, it is truly heartening and inspiring when that artist chooses to take it that step beyond into advocacy for nature and humanity and use his or her art to educate and help heal the planet. This is the extra dimension to Louie’s life that makes him someone whose spirit we should hope to honor and emiulate in our own artistic endeavors.


Beautyas a
Force of Energy


That’s another Louie maxim I keep twisting round and round in my head, endlessly considering all its possible dimensions. The beauty of nature, the beauty of art, the beauty of love are what energize us and keep us forever wanting to preserve life – every life, including animal and plant life, planet life.










Mooseon the Loose










SerengetiSunrise










A Galaxy Inside aFlower










BronzedForest










Heaven atBig Sur










In honor of the message behindWings of Desire





Louie is proposing that we do our best to create or curate artworks or other images that best illustrate this idea:


“Beauty as a Force of Energy.” Louie will soon share his vision for a project he will be curating around just this thought with the deviantART community, the depiction of Beauty, Kindness, Love, Joy, etc. as a force of energy could not only have an impact but change the world. I just thought I would get the ball rolling early! Louie is thinking of a collaborative project built around artworks that best depict the idea of Beauty as a Force of Energy. He will reveal more details on his page soon. If you have any ideas for him about what might make a project like that soar and really deliver the message around the world please send him a note as he is in early stages of building the project.

















On Earth-Scriptures Groupby *louieschwartzberg





I love the Jumping Spider photo by ~dalimas. I once filmed a baby caterpillar being pounced upon and consumed by a jumping spider. The good news is that millions of Monarchs survive their caterpillar phase with a mass quantities strategy beneficial to both butterflies and spiders. Natural beauty may be savage, but it is purposeful and balanced.


In the "Closer Gallery", the Purple Dahlia by ~Coatlique touches the deepest part of my soul as I recognize the universal pattern of radiant symmetry and composition. Such are nature’s tools for creating a resonance within us. I believe that beauty is nature's tool for survival because we fall in love with what is beautiful and so we seek to protect it. Nature's operating instructions motivate our behavior to move our DNA forward – which is why Life is a force of energy.


Spiral II by *abey79 and Color Explosion by *IngoSchobert reveal that from the micro to the macro the universal patterns and rhythms of the Universe are reflected to us daily in these mirrors deep inside of every cell of your mind, heart and soul.





All of the work in #EARTH-SCRIPTURES speaks to the shift of consciousness that is happening as artists unite to inspire people to the truth, beauty, and intelligence of nature. We humans may lack the vocabulary to communicate with nature, which speaks to our own inadequacy. Artists at #EARTH-SCRIPTURES have their antennae tuned into scanning beyond the surface of nature to capture the spirit of nature that touches and opens our hearts to be present, conscious and connected with our friends, our families and most importantly, with ourselves.

























QuestionsFor the Reader






  1. Is it a responsibility of  artists to participate in environmental and social justice causes? Do artists have any excuse for not participating?

  2. Artists have a gift in representing the beauty of the world. Should this necessarily become a contribution to saving the environment?

  3. Were you already aware of the honey bee “colony collapse disorder” syndrome before being alerted to it through this article or Louie's documentary?












In our continuous effort to improve the deviantART experience, we're publishing weekly Site Updates to keep members informed and to gather feedback. Below is a list of recent changes to the site, bug fixes, and feedback that was brought up by members in the last Site Update.

What's New


The New Way To Write Journals (Beta Testers Only)

Sta.sh Writer's toolbar and sidebar have been incorporated into the Write a Journal Entry page to make for a more dynamic journal creation experience! Some of the most highly requested features for the Journal submission page have been present in Sta.sh Writer for some time, such as rich-text formatting and a formatting toolbar. With Sta.sh Writer's advanced capability added, writing a Journal becomes even easier than before.



Change Log

  • There were some layout issues on the Premium Membership page. Fixed by $yury-n
  • Premium Membership notices have been visually improved. Fixed by $allixsenos
  • The "Add to Favourites" icon did not display properly in Internet Explorer 8. Fixed by $shahyarg
  • An error could occur when trying to view deviations that had Prints enabled. Fixed by $allixsenos
  • The category selector on the Write a Journal Entry page was not visibly clickable, and the modal to select a category had visual issues. Fixed by $kemayo
  • In certain circumstances, the Search bar would take focus when trying to type into the Deviant Login menu. Fixed by $muteor
  • Profile pages wouldn't display properly if the Journal widget was installed, but no Journals had been posted. Fixed by $muteor
  • On the Edit Prints page, editing the percentage on the "Update all royalties at once" field would only update the first price. Fixed by $yury-n
  • Logged out visitors to the Journal Portal would be prompted with a "Join deviantART" modal if there was a Journal flagged as mature content on the page. Fixed by $shahyarg
  • Under some conditions, the "Previous" and "Next" buttons on deviation pages would not redirect correctly when used after using the browser's back button. Fixed by $muteor
  • Deleting images from one's Portfolio could result in an error. Fixed by $shadowhand
  • Disqualification from a contest would not automatically move deviations out of that contest's category. Fixed by $shahyarg
  • .gif files can now be submitted to more categories. Fixed by $yury-n
  • The placement of some deviation images would cause the image to touch the top bar of the site. Fixed by $muteor
  • Browsers would try to autocomplete passwords, when buying from the Shop. Fixed by $ZombieCoder

Sta.sh / Submit


  • A "Print not enabled" message would display on items in Sta.sh. Fixed by $kouiskas
  • The warning shown when blocking third-party cookies was too light to read. Fixed by $kouiskas
  • When uploading an image, the instant preview displayed didn't respect EXIF rotation settings. Fixed by $kouiskas
  • When using the "Enter text" option of the Submit page, the downloadable file created was .txt when it should have been .html. Fixed by $kouiskas

Sta.sh Writer


  • Google Webfonts was updated. Fonts added between December and last week are now available. Fixed by $kemayo
  • The "Draw" option was missing from thumbnails when leaving comments in Sta.sh. Fixed by $kemayo
  • Clicking "Remove" on a thumbnail added from the sidebar would remove the image, but it would not place the cursor where the thumb had been. Fixed by $Alisey
  • Some weird behavior could occur when using the Writer toolbar to format text. Fixed by $Alisey
  • Pressing the tab button when leaving comments in Sta.sh would indent instead of moving focus to the "Submit Comment" button. Fixed by $inazar
  • Dragging files into a comment in Sta.sh would cause an error, instead of uploading the files. Fixed by $inazar

Your Feedback


Thank you for the feedback on last week's Site Update! Here's some of what you had to say.
  • Deviants were pleased with the introduction of Madefire to deviantART.
  • Feedback regarding purchasing Premium Content varied. Some mentioned purchasing or selling adoptables, while others mentioned resources, such as textures or digital doll bases.
  • Some deviants would like a way to find deviants with similar interests, based on similarities in their Favourites. Suggested by ~Jackartha 

Discuss!

Featured Gallery
When visiting your own Gallery or the Gallery of another deviant, the section displayed by default is your Featured folder. Do you organize what appears in your Featured folder and what does not, or do you submit everything to your Featured folder? When looking at another deviant's Gallery, do you typically go directly to the "Browse" mode, or do you usually browse through their Featured folder and other folders?


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Drones

Wed Apr 10, 2013, 9:27 PM







Foreword


by $techgnotic




Choose any media or medium and there is no question that Drones have become the white hot center of debate for a multitude of deeply consequential concerns for the entire Earth Sphere. No matter the digital end point or theatre of conversation, whether it be politics, war, privacy, pop culture, or the rise of machines – Drones or UAV's (unmanned aerial vehicles) are the current catalyst du jour in any number of flashpoint discussions. From the front page headlines of news outlets around the world, to op-ed pages debating national security vs. non-juridical “justice,” to the big budget sci-fi film “Oblivion” with a main protagonist being a lonely drone repairman toiling away on a scorched earth, there is no getting away from the conversation.






Even more interesting is the tone of inevitability of outcome. Core discussion seems to focus on a coming drone-filled sky and how we might govern our selves accordingly as this fact becomes a reality. It would seem that we have surrendered to the “law” that if something is possible in its technology, it will inexorably come into being and have to be dealt with. If we can build it, we will, and our finger will itch to find a reason for pulling the trigger. Is this the dark side of human creativity and inquisitiveness that will ultimately one day spell our doom or the first signs of a coming technological Utopia.











As always, concerned artists around the world are responding, reflecting and creating. In NYC Adam Harvey has turned the very core idea of fashion on it’s head. His art project is not about being seen and noticed but about remaining unseen as there will now be no way to be unseen in this brave new climate of surveillance.








The artists of deviantART have similarly been creating artwork of incredible beauty and message.


For a deeper examination of the intersection of future shock military terror and artistic response, *istickboy takes us on a journey through an art centered perspective on the subject. Jason Boog is not only a talented writer of finely crafted sentences, but he also brings a true journalist’s skills in research, analysis and balanced presentation to the topics he covers. His future contributions to depthRADIUS will no doubt prove as edifying and thought-provoking as they will be entertaining. Welcome, Jason.











Drones

by *istickboy



Near the end of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, the video game player must rescue the President while a swarm of unmanned aircraft demolish Los Angeles. Players navigate a landscape of collapsed skyscrapers and burning cars, the air thick with ash and yellow smoke. Remote controlled helicopters, airplanes and tanks ambush the player, rogue drones blasting the city to pieces.




The game concludes in 2025 with this nightmare scenario: terrorists have seized control of the entire United States drone fleet. The game has spawned deviantART collections and fan art as players create wallpaper stills, posters and scenes from the game.


Unmanned airplanes and other robotic fighting machines will obsess popular culture for years to come, and deviantART has already become a hub for drone art. Artists have tagged more than 19,000 posts with the word "drones” inventing everything from robots with laser cannons to My Little Pony drone horses to alien machinery to sleek unmanned airplanes to gorgeous robot blimps mining gas on distant stars.








Unmanned






Vehicle









Aerial








According to Navy historians, drones first took flight in 1937, as the military tested remote controlled airplanes for research and missions. Just like drone bees under the command of the Queen, these early Navy drones were used for dangerous missions, target practice and other disposable tasks.


The humanitarian organization Human Rights Watch recently published a report about drone warfare around the globe. According to the study, US Department of Defense has invested about $6 billion every year into “the research and development, procurement, operations, and maintenance of unmanned systems for war.” In May 2010, U.S. drones surpassed one million flight hours and a short time later, in November 2010, achieved one million combat hours.







Winged violence from the sky is not a new artistic theme.


John James Audubon









The great 19th Century artist and naturalist dedicated much of his career to sketching birds in beautiful and violent moments. You can download free copies of his illustrated journals at Project Gutenberg. In his journal, he described the magnificent killing power of birds of prey.


He described the violence of a black-backed gull hunting in a rainstorm:





The rain is driven in sheets which seem scarcely to fall on sea or land; I can hardly call it rain, it is rather a mass of water, so thick that all objects at any distance from us are lost to sight every three or four minutes, and the waters comb up and beat about us in our rock-bound harbor as a newly caged bird does against its imprisoning walls. The Great Black-backed Gull alone is seen floating through the storm, screaming loudly and mournfully as it seeks its prey; not another bird is to be seen abroad”





In the 20th Century, aviation art captured airplanes with the same gorgeous detail that Audubon brought to real birds. The movement took flight during World War II as airplanes brought mass destruction to the prosecution of war. Artists romanticized the deadly beauty of military machinery, painting a species of bird created by mankind.










In 1963,


Roy Lichtenstein painted "Whaam" as an ironic part of this tradition.



In the five-foot tall panels, a comic book airplane blasts another fighter jet, creating a fiery inferno that engulfs half the painting with a comic explosion. The painting reproduced an image from a 1962 DC comic book, “All American Men of War.” Painting that image on an enormous canvas, Lichtenstein focused on the terrible beauty of an exploding aircraft.








An explosion of science fiction in the late 1940’s and into the 1950’s introduced rocket ships. There is a direct line to Star Trek and Star Wars through Blade Runner from Sputnik, the first unmanned satellite in space launched in 1957 by the Soviet Union. The real thing and the imagined blend together.







From Halo to Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, drones have always played...


A Role in Video Games




The Starcraft series featured horrific Zerg drones, a combination of a wasp, monster and killer alien. In the Halo franchise, insect-like Yanme'e aliens are called drones. They fly and fight in hive formations, rallying around a queen like earthbound insects.






Just like these video game creatures, our real life drones were designed by watching nature. Robotic engineers at Boston Dynamics are creating the next generation of drones that will work on the ground for the military. These creatures all mimic real animals, strange works created by engineers --unnaturalists, if you will.

















Anime has also explored drone warfare, especially the mecha anime genre that “revolves around the use of piloted robotic armors in battle.”  These colorful stories show epic battles between enormous fighting machines.




Inspired by mecha anime, deviantART artist ~izo84 has been developing a “Drone Army” video game concept for many years, posting some of his work on the site. He also cited professional devinatART members like `ukitakumuki, *Avitus12, *KaranaK and ~flaketom as inspirations.


~izo84 feels conflicted about his work:



I do not feel good about designing war machines. But I think as long as what I envisioned is pure fiction, I can continue working without remorse. On the other hand, I can see how fast the real development of unmanned war machines changed, and I have concerns.”








Inspired by press accounts of drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan, artist ~turningaway posted “War as a Video Game” on deviantART. The political painting shows what a drone attack feels like for innocent civilians on the ground and reminds us of the consequences of these unmanned attacks.


Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 was not created as science fiction. An Australian gaming site AusGamer interviewed Treyarch studio co-founder Mark Lamia who worked on the game. The founder explained the realistic art design behind the drone attacks: “We wanted to make sure that this is Call of Duty, it can’t be too sci-fi, it’s gotta feel like this is plausible. It’s part of the DNA of Black Ops where we set up these plausible scenarios and then we have our fiction going through it and our story... the flipside of major advances in robotics and technology is that sort of— on the flipside— is the dependencies on that and things that might be happening in cyber-warfare in the future. Things that used to be the domain of great science-fiction books is no longer, it’s reality; it’s happening; starting to play out in the headlines today, but certainly in the coming decade.”






While developing Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, the video game designers and artists consulted with P.W. Singer, the war scholar who wrote the most important book about drone warfare, Wired for War.  Singer described why video game players are highly valued as drone pilots: “Having spent their youth online gaming, sipping Red Bull, and talking on their cell phones all at once, young drone pilots come to the unit with an ease at multitasking already wired into their DNA.”


Artists are training warriors.











Questions


For the Reader





1

Which do you think came first: the real drones or the artistic interpretations of drones?




2

DaVinci drew sketches of weapons and war machines as well as producing the most emotionally restrained and expressive portrait of a woman in the Mona Lisa. Is a sketch of a drone emotionally connected or is just an illustration of future shock?




3

There are all kinds of camera drones used by the military, by engineering companies to inspect pipelines, for example, and by film companies for all kinds of effects. What would be an art drone? Maybe a flying machine trailing colors, a guided laser obliterating ugliness or a device for laying down graffiti on inaccessible surfaces— do you have an idea for an art drone’s function or mission?






4

In Singer’s book, drone squadron commander Gary Fabricius talks about the lives of drone pilots: “You are going to war for twelve hours, shooting weapons at targets, directing kills on enemy combatants, and then you get in the car, drive home, and within twenty minutes you are sitting at the dinner table talking to your kids about their homework.” Is this really any different than spending a day in the studio drawing a comic or animations or illustrations of mass mayhem and destruction?




5

Do you think the proliferation of drones all over the world somehow brings us closer to a new world order or one world government?











In our continuous effort to improve the deviantART experience, we're publishing weekly Site Updates to keep members informed and to gather feedback. Below is a list of recent changes to the site, bug fixes, and feedback that was brought up by members in the last Site Update.

What's New


Introducing Madefire Motion Books on deviantART

We are excited to announce a partnership between deviantART and Madefire, the leading Motion Book application in Apple’s App Store. Together with Madefire, we are releasing the Madefire Web Reader on deviantART in a new Motion Books category on our front-page. In addition, Madefire's Motion Tool will gradually be made available to deviants in the coming months, so that deviants can buy, read, make, and sell books and comics, all from within the deviantART experience.



deviantART's T-Shirts and Gear Shop is Closing

After 8 years of artistic adventure, deviantART's T-Shirts & Gear Shop (formerly deviantWEAR) has decided to close its doors. It has been an amazing ride. Seeing hundreds of concepts through to full production, developing the brand hand-in-hand with the community, listening to all of the feedback, and designing to suit our deviants' dynamic tastes has been an honor. We have genuinely enjoyed sharing our concepts, workflow, designs, and final products with you. We would like to thank all of you for your support, heartfelt commentary, and constant tide of love and deviousness. It was certainly a labor of love to produce the brand for deviants around the globe. 

Change Log

  • An "example deviations" section was added to the Commissions widget. Added by $adahacker
  • deviantART launched deviantHEART.com for April Fools' Day. Added by $shahyarg and $shadowhand
  • Some bugs were discovered in the initial setup of the deviantID widget. Fixed by $muteor
  • Gallery navigation did not work properly for logged out visitors. Fixed by $shadowhand
  • For a period of about 12 hours, some Premium Members experienced a temporary loss of their Premium Membership. Fixed $banks, $chris and $shadowhand
  • Some unicode characters did not display properly on Sta.sh items submitted through an API. Fixed by $yury-n
  • Adding the Journal widget to one's Profile by dragging and dropping would not work. Fixed by $shadowhand
  • The Edit Deviation page would not load. Fixed by $shadowhand
  • Updates were made to the Sell landing page. Fixed by $yury-n
  • Some deviants could not get past page two of the Manage Friends page. Fixed by $shadowhand
  • There were some instances where banned or deactivated error pages might display reversed. Fixed by $yury-n
  • There was a display issue with More Like This thumbnails on deviation pages on mobile devices. Fixed by $allixsenos
  • Some Prints Shop example photos would show incorrect products in the "Read more" popup of the "Buy this Print" box. Fixed by $yury-n

Sta.sh / Submit


  • Thumbs inside stacks would jump around when hovered over. Fixed by $inazar
  • Merging single items into a stack would give the merged item an incorrect title. Fixed by $drommk
  • Support was added for Madefire deviation submission and unlockable Premium Content. Added by $kouiskas
  • Entering text was broken for a short period. Fixed by $drommk
  • The progress bar when entering text or replacing files was incorrectly placed. Fixed by $drommk
  • HTML inside description text would be corrupted when quick edits were made. Fixed by $drommk
  • When replacing a main file, the editor wouldn't keep the original size settings and would incorrectly resize the image. Fixed by $kouiskas
  • Errors about being unable to submit to saved Groups would not display correctly. Fixed by $samshull
  • In some instances, Journals couldn't be submitted to Groups. Fixed by $samshull
  • Deviations would appear in the Featured folder even when not selected. Fixed by $samshull
  • Large files of specific filetypes (like .obj) couldn't be attached as Premium Content. Fixed by $kouiskas

Sta.sh Writer


  • Webfonts were not loading all of the requested font weights. Fixed by $kemayo
  • The toolbar would not respond if no text was selected. Fixed by $kemayo
  • When searching in the sidebar, results could display incorrectly. Fixed by $inazar
  • When leaving comments in Sta.sh, image attachments were hidden by default. Fixed by $inazar
  • The "undo" and "redo" buttons could be misaligned when leaving comments in Sta.sh. Fixed by $inazar
  • Submitting two comments in Sta.sh without reloading the page could make selecting thumbs from the sidebar not work properly. Fixed by $inazar
  • When leaving comments in Sta.sh, the scroll position would not be retained after closing the sidebar. Fixed by $inazar
  • When splitting blockquotes in Firefox, the second half of the text would be lost. Fixed by $Alisey
  • Uploading files to Sta.sh from the sidebar by clicking "Upload Files" wasn't working in Firefox. Fixed by $Alisey
  • Uploading several files to Sta.sh at once from the sidebar could cause display issues. Fixed by $Alisey

Your Feedback


Thank you for the feedback left on last week's Site Update! Here's some of what you had to say.
  • Feedback regarding Gallery Stats varied. Some deviants mentioned that they found the Comment information to be useful, while others mentioned that they found the breakdown of Favourites to be most useful.
  • A few deviants mentioned that the Timeline section of the Gallery Stats page is unclear.
  • *alex-heberling and `mirz-alt suggested that being able to track what websites are directing traffic to one's deviations would be helpful.
  • *Yoriden150 suggested that a comparison of Views from one deviation to another would be useful, to go along with Comments and Favourites.
  • Several deviants liked the suggestion about being able to post a Journal from one's Profile.

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