Make DeviantArt Great again
Make DeviantArt Great again
The Issue
The Art Website 'DeviantArt' has been at a downturn recently, I am a member of this website and I am just one heavy-hearted community member in the vast ocean of active members, I've been a member for nearly two years and I've met so many great friends on here, I also heard that the DeviantArt Staff doesn't care about its users. Said website has done a round of layoffs, Key team members, mostly development, were fired, while management was spared. There might not be a deviantART in five years if management keeps this up, deviantART is not doing well. People are leaving faster than others are joining the website, the website's bleeding visitors and active users. The bottom line is that a change needs to happen, fast, if this website wants to exist much longer.
This round of layoffs included exactly those people you need to quickly change your website around. The people that got fired (again, overnight) were almost exclusively part of the design and development teams as well as responsible for developing the mobile apps, which create the deviantART you see before your eyes every time you use it, as well as the deviantART we hope to use in the future.
I am calling upon you, The DeviantArt CEO, deviantART, Inc. (product) management, investors like Autodesk.com and anybody else actively involved in establishing a roadmap for the company. Pick the path you are forcing us to walk on very carefully.
The community is not happy.
The community has not been heard.
DeviantART needs to Gain. Back. The. Community's. Trust.
Even after all that's happened, I wish nothing but the best for this place and I really hope you can turn this ship around. At its current heading, the cruise ship we call deviantART is on crash course with a massive iceberg and we don't have any lifeboats. Sign this petition if you care about DeviantArt as much as I do, Thank you for reading this in hope we can make DeviantArt a better place again.
Link to the journal: http://europeans.deviantart.com/journal/Wake-up-deviantART-Inc-Why-we-really-shut-down-614073864
The Issue
The Art Website 'DeviantArt' has been at a downturn recently, I am a member of this website and I am just one heavy-hearted community member in the vast ocean of active members, I've been a member for nearly two years and I've met so many great friends on here, I also heard that the DeviantArt Staff doesn't care about its users. Said website has done a round of layoffs, Key team members, mostly development, were fired, while management was spared. There might not be a deviantART in five years if management keeps this up, deviantART is not doing well. People are leaving faster than others are joining the website, the website's bleeding visitors and active users. The bottom line is that a change needs to happen, fast, if this website wants to exist much longer.
This round of layoffs included exactly those people you need to quickly change your website around. The people that got fired (again, overnight) were almost exclusively part of the design and development teams as well as responsible for developing the mobile apps, which create the deviantART you see before your eyes every time you use it, as well as the deviantART we hope to use in the future.
I am calling upon you, The DeviantArt CEO, deviantART, Inc. (product) management, investors like Autodesk.com and anybody else actively involved in establishing a roadmap for the company. Pick the path you are forcing us to walk on very carefully.
The community is not happy.
The community has not been heard.
DeviantART needs to Gain. Back. The. Community's. Trust.
Even after all that's happened, I wish nothing but the best for this place and I really hope you can turn this ship around. At its current heading, the cruise ship we call deviantART is on crash course with a massive iceberg and we don't have any lifeboats. Sign this petition if you care about DeviantArt as much as I do, Thank you for reading this in hope we can make DeviantArt a better place again.
Link to the journal: http://europeans.deviantart.com/journal/Wake-up-deviantART-Inc-Why-we-really-shut-down-614073864
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Petition created on June 9, 2016