deviantART's 11th BirthdAy: Let's Celebrate! by Heidi, journal
deviantART's 11th BirthdAy: Let's Celebrate!
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August 7th, 2011 marks deviantART's 11th birthdAy, but in true devious style, we're taking a whole week to celebrate! Our original plans for Deviants Appreciation Day were so huge that there was no possible way to express our love for the community in a mere 24 hours. Instead, we've created Deviants Appreciation Week, and what better time to host a week's worth of community-oriented events than in the days leading up to our birthdAy?
Each day this week, we have something special organized for you to participate in! Check out the schedule of events below to come party with us!
In Skribble, our latest community contest, we challenge
How Malware Works Via Banner Ads by Heidi, journal
How Malware Works Via Banner Ads
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How Malware Works Via Banner Ads
As many deviants know, deviantART has been working hard to combat malicious banner ads that infiltrate
our advertising network, and we've previously addressed this issue in
April 2011
and August 2011.
In our ongoing effort to keep the deviantART community safe, we wanted to share the following
USA Today-produced
video that explains how malicious ads inundate the Web.
How Malicous Ads Inundate the Web
(Source: USA Today)
Protect Yourself
Malware advertising is an Internet-wide problem that affects many of the Net's top sites.
Keep
Our Ongoing Battle Against Malicious Ads by Heidi, journal
Our Ongoing Battle Against Malicious Ads
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Our Ongoing Battle Against Malicious Ads
Toward the end of April, deviantART released a community-wide news article that outlined and reaffirmed our stance against advertisements that auto-play audio, contain pop-ups or redirects, and promote virus or malware activity. Three months later, we'd like to provide an update on our efforts to block malicious advertising from running on the site.
We're taking these concerns seriously
DeviantART takes all concerns on this topic very seriously and immediately implemented a number of changes to reduce the chance those type of ads would get served by our ad partners. These initial steps w
Introducing the Premium Content Platform by Heidi, journal
Introducing the Premium Content Platform
DeviantART is proud to announce our Premium Content Platform
Providing the ability for content creators to become sellers and generate real earnings by making digital files of their high-quality work available for download. Sellers are able to set their own prices while retaining 80% of all revenue earned, and buyers are able to quickly get the things they want with the satisfaction of supporting the artists they love.
What is Premium Content?
The Premium Content Platform was built to represent high-quality content — the premier pieces in an artist's repertoire of work. We encourage the sale of everything from comics or stor
Valentine's Day Art Exchange 2015 by ikazon, journal
Valentine's Day Art Exchange 2015
The Valentine's Day Art Exchange is back! Break out the virtual glitter and cyber candy hearts, and create valentines for your fellow deviants to send to their special someones!
DIGITAL LOVE IS IN THE AIR
Break out the candy hearts and crafting paper, because the Valentine's Day Art Exchange is back! With Valentine's Day just around the corner, now's the time to create valentines for your fellow deviants to share with their special someones.
Take part and help spread the love!
Start now by creating a digital valentine to be submitted to the Valentine Exchange category. Then, from February 11th to 16th, deviations in the Valentine Exchange ca
Goblins vs. Gnomes Challenge by madizzlee, journal
Goblins vs. Gnomes Challenge
Create Your Own Mischievous Goblin or Gnome!
The battle has been declared. Side with either the cunning and dangerous Goblins or the clever and wacky Gnomes. Create your own Goblin or Gnome inspired by Hearthstone's new expansion pack, Goblins vs Gnomes, and include the invention they would use to confuse, confound, or explode their opponents.
It's up to you: pick as your inspiration the measured ingenuity of the Gnomes or the trademarked fearlessness of Goblins. Make a new invention or reinterpret an old one.
For More Information On Goblins and Gnomes Click Here
How to Enter
Step 1
Learn more about the characters and inventions used in t
Celebrating Deviousness - November 2014 by fourteenthstar, journal
Celebrating Deviousness - November 2014
In Recognition of Exemplary Membership and an Outstanding Spirit of helpfulness and mentoring within the DeviantArt community.
Introducing elsevilla (https://www.deviantart.com/elsevilla)
`elsevilla (https://www.deviantart.com/elsevilla)
Hola, Hector is my name (AKA elsevilla (https://www.deviantart.com/elsevilla)), I'm a comic artist and illustrator from Mexico and I've been a member of DeviantArt for the past 12 years. I have done works for major companies all thanks to the community that spreads the word and cares for my work. I love coffee and peanut butter on bread! I wouldnt be here if it wasnt for my parents and the DeviantArt community, that always keep me focused in right direction. I just want to say thank you guys, for making my
Please join me in sending out a huge "Thank You" to deshrubber (https://www.deviantart.com/deshrubber) for his contributions a Community Volunteer for the Traditional Art Community and a member of the Community Relations Mentor Team. deshrubber (https://www.deviantart.com/deshrubber) started with the (former) Message Network team in 2010 and has been with us through many a transformation!
From the LOL corner series to Traditional Tuesday features, deshrubber (https://www.deviantart.com/deshrubber) has always looked for ways to bring the community to the forefront. We will miss his presence on the team but I'm confident he'll be around the community continuing to be awesome as a Senior member.
Thank you deshrubber (https://www.deviantart.com/deshrubber) - we love you! :heart:
Don't fix what ain't broken by Thiefoworld, journal
Don't fix what ain't broken
I was checking one of DA's recent updates and came across a very revolutionary question from a fellow deviant:
And you know what? Yeah! Deviantart: why do you keep fixing what isn't broken?
I remember when I joined the community almost a decade ago and everything was juuuust right. People were lovely, there was art, there was people and we had just exactly what we needed. But NO DA! You weren't happy with that so you had to keep adding things nobody asked for! Whyyyyy??
For example, we had our lovely and uniform profiles, all of them were exactly the same because we just weren't able to customize them. We coudn't decide what we wanted to