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DeviantArt
Raised as a usability problem by 21 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2009–2024), in 11 threads.
People raised many different problems with DeviantArt, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 23 complaints
- No way to search for Creative Commons licensed artwork since redesign2024-08-09
- Site became terrible to use after redesign, so the commenter stopped using it2024-05-17
- Search returns no image hits for a tag the user tried2024-05-17
- After the redesign, can't reliably find content because categories were removed with no alternative2022-02-04
- Mobile app felt clunky, leading the user to visit much less2022-01-29
- Site feels like a puzzle box, hard to navigate and sift content2022-01-29
- Site nearly freezes the browser on a powerful desktop computer2022-01-29
- Site's user experience has always been messy and remains so2022-01-29
- Site became impossible to use, so the commenter gave up visiting2022-01-29
- Viewing an artwork froze the browser and took minutes to show2022-01-29
- Hard to browse one artist's gallery; default links push unrelated 'similar' artworks and pages load slowly2022-01-29
- Redesigned site looks ugly and is hard to use compared to alternatives2022-01-29
- Forced sign-in to download artwork marked as downloadable, a dark pattern2022-01-29
- Site pushed visitors into creating accounts with dark patterns2022-01-29
- Takes tens of seconds of fan noise to display one image2020-11-26
- Nearly impossible to find AVS presets on the site now2020-02-14
- Good art is buried under lots of low-quality work, hard to find2017-06-27
- Each page takes at least 10 seconds before any content appears2017-02-23
- Ads overlay content on mobile and a banner nags users running adblockers2017-02-23
- Forces an extra 'are you sure you want to leave' page on every outgoing link2012-08-15
- Can't figure out how to use the three sets of buttons2010-09-04
- Designs look impressive but would be exhausting to use every day2009-06-01
- Smiley loading makes three server requests and locks the comment box; Collections is confusing and site is slow2009-03-19