Become a Beta Tester on DeviantArt! by team, journal
Become a Beta Tester on DeviantArt!
Join the beta testing program to help test and improve future DeviantArt features! Beta testing is a cornerstone of DeviantArt’s history, and beta testers benefit the community by providing feedback and usage data. Through bug reports and insight shared during the testing stages, beta testers can help shape and improve site features. Any deviant can become a beta tester by adding this journal to their favourites. :+fav: If you decide later that you want to opt-out, you can do so by removing this journal from your favorites. :sherlock: How It Works Beta testers are among the first to see new features introduced to DeviantArt. This early access is provided so deviants can test new features and provide feedback for the DeviantArt team through comments, bug reports, and user engagement metrics before it's released sitewide. When there’s an open beta test, testers will receive a notification providing details about the feature being tested, the specific things they are being asked to
UPDATE All Deviations Are Opted Out of AI Datasets by team, journal
UPDATE All Deviations Are Opted Out of AI Datasets
UPDATE: We heard the community feedback, and now all deviations are automatically labeled as NOT authorized for use in AI datasets. AI generators were trained using datasets collected from the open web. This includes content from creator platforms like DeviantArt, Pinterest, Twitter, and more. This was done without DeviantArt's permission and without your permission. To help prevent your work from being used by third party AI datasets without your consent, we implemented a flag to tell AI datasets not to use your art. All deviations on the platform are not authorized for inclusion in third-party datasets used to train artificial-intelligence models — unless you choose to opt in. DeviantArt has introduced the noai and noimageai directives to unambiguously communicate absence of such authorization. When an artist declares that their content may not be used as input to AI models, an HTML tag with the noimageai directive is placed on the page and an HTTP header with the noai directive
New Notifications for a More Engaging DeviantArt by team, journal
New Notifications for a More Engaging DeviantArt
Update (March 15th): We made individual notifications more compact in the “All Notifications'' stack under the “All'' tab. By removing the add-on gallery strips and comment boxes from watch and fave notifications, you can see the information that matters to you. Deviation and post thumbnails have been added to help give you more context when looking at your replies and comments. Notifications now supports forum notifications! We are continuing to update and improve Notifications. We are always reading through all of your feedback — both in the comments and on the feedback form — and discussing next steps on how we can better the experience for everyone. Update (February 2nd): Based on community feedback, we’ve added the ability to view and filter notifications by type. DeviantArt represents artists from all walks of life. Our deviants make up every point on an artistic journey and span a wide range of engagement they give and receive. As such, it can be a challenge to create a