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City Strolls: #007Welcome to the seventh edition of City Strolls! This feature showcases some of the best cityscape photography on deviantART!
Today's Stroll: Monaco, Monaco

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Features of deviations posted in the Photography > Urban & Rural > Cityscapes & Skylines gallery in the past week.

docks at socrates by ~eligit
Toronto Skyline by =jasonwilde

City Strolls: #004Welcome to the fourth edition of City Strolls! This feature showcases some of the best cityscape photography on deviantART!
Today's Stroll: Amsterdam, Netherlands

General Features
Features of deviations posted in the Photography > Urban & Rural > Cityscapes & Skylines gallery in the past week.

Darling Harbour at Night IX by *mdomaradzki
splendour travels through the night by ~Zakily
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Status Forum ConcernsHi Everyone!
I wanted to thank everyone for the responses on $Thunderstatement’s Blog Pro Tip: Don’t Wait to Report a Problem. There was quite few concerns about the state of our Status forum and we are working to address this because it is most definitely a valid concern and we greatly appreciate those who brought this to our attention!

For quite some time we tried to reserve the Status Forum to the most urgent issues which resulted in parts of the site being completely unusable resulting in high counts of tickets and concerns, to make sure that everyone was made aware of the issue as quickly as possible. By doing this the Status Forum remained quite small due to these types of issues not coming up as frequently and when they do the deviousTechnology department is sometimes so fast the issue gets fixed before we get to press the “Add Article&

Celebrating Deviousness - April 2012 Deviousness Award
Deviousness Award

Congratulations to ^shuttermonkey

All for the love of you

Pretty in White II

The Colors of Potter's Cay

What is this Awesome Achievement?

The Deviousness Award is an accolade which is traditionally handed out on the 1st of every month to one truly outstanding deviant.

It's no April Fools prank, today we are delighted to announce
^shuttermonkey as the Deviousness Award recipient for April 2012.

Funny Face ID.

Landing Lake 2

Playful Reminder II

Who is ^shuttermonkey?

Cory's dedication to the community is astounding. Not only is he what we would call

Scrap Trap UpdateDid you know that there was more than one way to submit to your scraps gallery? In fact there were galleries in the category chooser that redirected your deviations to your scraps gallery. If you submitted to:
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    literature > poetry > journal poetry                    or
    Traditional Art > Drawings > Doodles and Sketches or
    Digital Art > Drawings > Doodles and Sketches
the submission engine automatically redirected those deviations to the more suitable scraps section of your user gallery.
While the best of intentions were behind enabling these scrap traps, overtime,

Leaving Constructive Feedback on New Features:iconKatara-alchemist:
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So once again we have a brand new feature that has been released to everyone, and a lot of people are up in arms about it. This is more than understandable, the system is buggy and it doesn't work quite right for everyone. But for many people it does work well, and many people do like it. They don't speak up though, because they are happy with it so they don't have as much reason to speak up as the people who are having problems.
Think about the last ten products you bought that you liked and worked well, did you contact the company that made it or leave a review on their website or something of that sort? Now think about the last ten products you bought that you didn't like or were broken or whatever, what did you do? My guess is you complained, either through a review or a return or something of that sort. My point is, unless something is wrong people don't generally speak up. This makes it seem like many more people dislike a new feature

Spammers on dASo, over the last 6 or so months people have been noticing that deviantART has been getting hit by malicious spammers.
The current trend of these spammers is to favourite an image of yours and then when you reply on their page you get a message along the lines of "I really liked your work. Hey I just got this free X Item and thought I should share it with you." These are all spammers, the links lead to potentially malicious sites. We have been blacklisting these websites and banning all the spammers we can find.
However we need your support in this, we need you to report them too us. We have a section of the help desk dedicated to reports about these accounts, it's titled "Spammer Reports". Tickets in that section are handled within 48 hours during the working week. But unfortunately I've been noticing a tendency that some of these accounts can last for days without being reported. People are aware of them because they're commenting on the profiles stating that they're spammers,

Daily Deviations UpdateHappy Monday Morning

I started this morning by signing something "Moonbam13" so either this typo means I need more coffee, or this week is going to be BAMTASTIC!
I'm rooting for the latter

I wanted to post a quick update on changes to Daily Deviations. It is important to note that these changes have not been hard-coded so my team is manually following these new guidelines. This means that errors can and likely will occur until the coding is complete, your patience and understanding is appreciated

The following guideline changes are in effect:

The 3-month rule is now the 6-month rule, meaning that it must be at least 6-months since the last time an artist received a daily deviation. (This was an overwhelmingly popular suggestion from the community and I agree, it's a good one!)

Daily deviation selectors may only select one daily deviation per day maximum. This has been put in place to focus on Quality vs Quantity.

deviantART Honored by Online Trust Alliance
deviantART: Online Trust Alliance 2012 Award Receipient

At deviantART, we always strive to keep your user experience safe so you’re provided with an environment in which you’re comfortable to create and grow. As part of our ongoing effort to keep your user experience protected, we’ve been documenting ways to encourage awareness and ensure a safer deviantART — first in April and August of 2011, and again in January of this year.
In 2011, deviantART became a member of the Online Trust Alliance (

All New Sta.sh Submit Page + Sta.sh Writer UpliftHey Folks

We've got a two in one beta tester extravaganza for you today, with a big update to the Sta.sh submission page and a new and improved toolbar for Sta.sh Writer

New Sta.sh Submission Page
What has changed
When submitting a deviation from your Sta.sh to your deviantART gallery you will see that there is an all new layout and flow of the interface to make the submission process simpler and easier to understand

Functionality has been improved with the ability to submit to multiple galleries at the same time

There is also a new "Image Preview" feature which allows you to see exactly how your image is going to look with accurate sizing and watermark (if selected)
What has not changed
We've not take anything away, all the options that you had before are all still there!

What to do if you find a bug
If you have any issues or come across

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Journal Entry: Fri Oct 28, 2011, 5:12 AM

So Sta.sh launched last night and like any new feature (or miniscule change) the community is is an uproar. This is the reason why I love deviantART. The opinions of the community are always so varied and the passion behind them can rise to a boil fairly quickly. This may seem like a weird thing to love but I think it shows how much our users actually love dA. You express yourselves so fervently and take things to heart so easily that it can't be seen as anything other than love for this community and the site on the whole.

That said, the journals and comments speaking out against the administration and voicing your opinion is one thing, but the ones causing panic and anger towards a new feature you've never seen are quite unnecessary. Towards that end, I'd like to dedicate this journal to a sort of FAQ on Sta.sh and the new features launched yesterday. If you have questions or concerns about these new features please feel free to leave a comment below and I will address them in the journal so any other visitors can benefit from the questions raised.

While I wait for some questions, please take a moment to read over some of the FAQ's we've come up with on the subject:
FAQ #440: What is Sta.sh?
FAQ #441: How do I upload to my Sta.sh?
FAQ #442: What is the storage limit of Sta.sh?
FAQ #443: What happens when I reach the storage limit for Sta.sh?
FAQ #444: What happens to my Sta.sh items when my subscription runs out?
FAQ #445: Can I upload anything to Sta.sh?
FAQ #446: Why can't I drag & drop files to my Sta.sh like other users?

Where is my journal mood in sta.sh writer?

If you visit Sta.sh and use writer to compose a journal it will not automatically provide the area to put your mood and thoughts. If you know you are going to write a journal you can hover over the submit menu at the top then choose "write a journal" and these options will be available for you.

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Conversion Woesby $Ikue

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~karlarei2003 Jan 21, 2012

Thank you for this!

I've been trying to find a decent overview of the new system, but I've only found a pile of rants with no explanations at all.

*Nala15 Nov 9, 2011 Professional General Artist

PLEASE KEEP STA.SH OUT OF THE JOURNALS!!!!
Thank you.

$Ikue Nov 10, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Politely voice your concerns elsewhere. My userpage is not the place to shout your displeasure. I have no control over the Sta.sh system, nor its involvement with other areas on the site.

^KovoWolf Nov 3, 2011 Professional General Artist

And I love deviantART for the feverish passion that you and the hard working members of DeviantART take to see the community happy

Thanks for the new FAQ's!

`Itti Nov 1, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

Why can't I type my < a href > and < b > and everything tags?? Clicking buttons is REALLY ANNOYING. I've been saying this since alpha!

_{And Ctrl E doesn't work. I get errors on saving.}

=CoffeeToffeeSquirrel Oct 28, 2011 Professional General Artist

I love sta.sh writer, and when I became accustomed to it, I won't return to the old system. And I see many people say they like stash writer too. It's not why the community is in uproar, as you put it. It's the merge of news and journals. What's the point with putting up a poll about it, and then don't listen to the majority?

My journals are public, yes, but they were relevant to my watchers and visitors, not the whole DA community. Like the poor guy with the potato journal. When I go to news I want to find more important stuff, like features, contests, editorials, etc... Not potatoes, baww, i'm leaving DA or some popular artists' ingrown toenails... I dunno of you listen at all, but this is my two cents...

`Itti Nov 1, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

You can search news instead of searching all journals. (News is a subcategory of journals now.)

I prefer having the search this way - it means you can look for contests and stuff that's been posted as journal OR news, instead of having to only search the news ones.

^KasumiCR Oct 28, 2011 Digital Artist

I absolutely love Sta.sh, but I think Sta.sh writer was released a bit too early. It definitely needs more formatting options other than bold, underlined and italics.

But what I think people are mostly upset about is not Sta.sh itself, but the merge of news and journals. A change I don't like myself to be honest. I get the idea behind submitting everything from the same point and it's a good idea, but journals showing on the news page is just silly.

Also, the love system for news was more effective to spread the word.

*GraphicLia Oct 28, 2011

I would like to suggest that the Admins from the groups be up to speed on a launch before it takes place. They in turn can support their member base and we might transition these changes more quickly and smoothly.

`SanguineEpitaph Oct 28, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

I love deviantART, I really do. With almost all of the changes you guys have implemented, I have been supportive and I've urged my watchers to be as well.

I think it's unfair to generalize the community uproar as angst over just a new feature. I have been using stash since it was released to beta testers, and I absolutely love it. In fact, I spoke with $Heidi at a devmeet about how much I love it. I used it for everything it was meant for during beta testing.

While I agree that changes need to happen to keep dA on the cutting edge, and I, as a coder, can imagine the work it took to create stash, I feel like there was seriously no need to clump journals and news all together and totally jack the system up.

So I guess many people aren't as upset with stash as they are with a massive change accompanying it. Personally, I don't ever want to post news articles again because I feel so disheartened with the news system that I think it's simply unnoticed and futile now.

I know my opinion probably doesn't matter as much as I'd like to hope, but I really don't see the need for anything that happened to news or journals. I still respect the work you all do, I just...c

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