Link to see all this: https://www.deviantart.com/

Let's face it -- Eclipse is horrible. The layout is disorganized, group owners are unable to access notifications, and profile cusotmization has gone downhill.

First, the disorganization. When you make an account and log in on DeviantART, you have notifications taking up precious space. There are 2 tabs for different notification types. One of them is Watch, which is everyone/groups you watch posting art, and users you follow. The next is Notifications, which only shows what used to be Feedback; comments/replies, favorites, likes on comments, etc. However, the old site had both of these in one, neat tab that allowed you to see it divided up on that singular page. It was clean, and ORGANIZED. We also see deviations completely cluttered like an Instagram post copy. Likes, views, and comment counts are all looped up underneath the picture and it takes the eye off of the image itself. In fact for some, the title and user who posted the artwork isn't immediately seen until after those eyecatching stats. This is wrong -- it puts artists into a subconscious state of anxiety seeing all that showing up first, rather than discretely putting the favorite/views/comment counts on the side, which is what the old site did. We also see an issue with our icons being smaller than most of the tabs, if not then all of them.

Next, we have Group Notifications that owners and admins can view. You may think it's the same as what's in Watch, right? Wrong. Eclipse has completely moved them to the group pages themselves, which means it will take longer for your precious artwork to be accepted into them, or you may not be a member until next week. In contrary, the old site had folders in the Notifications page, which was very organized by the way. In those folders, group notifications were in subfolders by group name. You can see anywhere from permission to post/favorite to join and affiliate requests without syarting a 100-man search party.

Our last concern is the profile customization. This was a feature a lot of Core users are familiar with, but non-Core users had ways around that. Customizing one's profile was an art form in itself; you needed to know how to embed everything into textboxes! So, whenever you visited a Core member's page and they had anything going on, it kept the focus of new viewers. Non-core members had a similar thing, but more restrictive: stamps. We could list our interests in a longer list than just text, show what groups we were in without that tab being visible, etc. When Eclipse first rolled around, it changed everything. You had no customization control other than a banner and some images if you were successful in figuring out the new embedding requirements that changed without notice. Stamps and sites that helped showcase something about you were out the window. In fact, there's nothing insanely positive about the new profile layouts because it only made things more confusing.

To cut it short, Eclipse needs change. DeviantART's dev team had almost a year to listen to old site users' concerns, and instead of doing so they forced it on us. So by signing the petition, we are asking for DeviantART to either bring the old site back and spruce it up a bit instead, or change Eclipse to fix the problems listed.