Caria

So they've managed to make the prints browsing system even worse now.

Not only has it become slightly more counter-intuitive to browse for prints, it is now also completely impossible to change the way you browse for prints.

Previously, when you entered the prints store, it was clear that you were starting out on the 'Most Popular' page and could change your browsing to 'Most Recent'.

But in DeviantART's ever-desperate quest to appease those they deem popular the latter option has now been removed.  Now, if you're starting at the storefront, you have to browse the DeviantART-Approved Way - it's only the popular kiddies from here on in!

The further into the gallery system you get (and you do have to dig quite far - I was four or five subfolders deep before this happened), the more you can see of their "Super Speshul Algorithm" for prints browsing.  It consists of all the popular pieces (who'da thunk it?) with somewhere between five and ten from the 'bottom of the pile', either less popular or new releases.  I'm browsing Digital-3D-Male and I browse in groups of 60; there's 6 on this page.  Two of them are fanart and therefore the prints (theoretically, if someone is doing their job right) will be rejected when you try to buy them, and three are 2D anthro.  (Gallery moderation?  What's that?)

It makes you wonder what it is you pay for, doesn't it?

Unless you're a big name on DA, of course.  And then you get what you pay for.

I see DeviantART are being myopic and childish again.  I never know why I try to expect them to act like...  I don't know, businesspeople, when all they're prone to doing is throwing their toys out of their pram at the first sign of customer disappointment and then screaming "but it's your fault we're doing it!!!".

I wonder if they realise that if they do this, they're effectively making their ridiculous tinyurl "Links" on the deviation page 100% invalid and useless?

But I doubt they've thought that far.  Again.

Because people only wanted a way to stop others linking to their artwork on sites they might not use, like Facebook, Twitter etc.  Not to cut off everyone from the outside world.

Things like this are why I'm spending less and less time on this site.

I'd brought my laptop upstairs with me so I could watch an awesome Japanese drama without bothering my mother and it had just got to a gripping part in the second episode when...

the laptop shut down!  

When I rebooted it, it informed me in very snooty bootup-text that it had overheated and wanted to cool down.  Wait, what?  It's never overheated before...

So I figured I could either let it cool down and then try to work out what the problem was, or...  I could take the lazy way out and get on with watching my awesome drama.

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