DeviantArt

I spent a grand total of five minutes on this site.
When I confirmed my e-mail address I realised I wrote a typo in my username. Okay, I'm going to quickly fix it...
No way! They wanted me to pay for change my username. Seriously? XD
"Alas", I had to deactivate the account before I even could take a look around. I can't believe it exists.

This website is actually impossible to navigate, full of fake art made by fake people to profit off of gullible children, and also benefits and supports a literal new age genocide! DISGUSTING! DO NOT USE!

I made an account with deviantart a month ago and to this day it refuses to let me in. Ive tried this on other computers, on different search engines, and the website will never let me log in OR create a new account. Other people i've talked to have had the same problem and apparently the "help desk" has no idea what to do either. Sticking to Tumblr and other websites for people to see my art. It would be horrible if i had a lot of art posted to deviantart BEFORE this all happened just to lose it all. Thank god.

Occasionally I participate in their forums. They seem to use different standards depending on your political stance and easily give in to request from more liberal members to close a thread if the content is not to their liking. Liberal members however do not seem to suffer so much from these interventions. Though it is to be expected that art community usually tends to be on the more liberal/leftist side I still find it disappointing that the staff sometimes have it hard to hide their personal political preferences.

I am deviant photoshop artist. Have be a deviant for 2 years, and over those years my profile grew and got a lot of views but not much watchers. I got like over 1.1k page view and only 8 watchers. The site is good for stock photos to use in your art to create what ever you want. You can do art commission, sell prints, and make premiums galleries. There is a dark side to Deviant to note though... some people spam porn or upload nude images of themselves. (not for kids)

Not everyone will support your art and the community got a'lot dramas. I wouldn't recommend coming here for supporters if you are looking. Don't even think about freelancing here you wont have any luck.

At least I got a great gallery.

I'm a young woman with an orientation difference, and I'm full of talent, in writing, music, and drawing. I've joined this site after learning internet safety, which I didn't know much about before getting my new laptop for Christmas last year. Thank god I've learned internet safety, recently. So many users have gotten themselves into trouble, for harassing, threatening, or beating teens down. Taking advantage of them. I'd say if you're an adult it's okay for you to join the site. If you are a teen, please get off the site. It's not for children under the age of 21. Those are the rules.
But on the bright-sight, I've gotten many favorites for my grim-reaper and the gray alien I've drawn. I still plan on drawing more to come, and I really love the black with the sparkles on the core membership. It makes a good-wall paper, including the snakes, and skulls.

I don't understand why dA gets so much back lash i'm 15 and on A SCHOOL LAP TOP. Meaning if porn was on dA it would be BLOCKED for me. I have met so many wonderful people including professionals who give me suggestions to better my self. Yes i get it the new style (eclipse.) is not what your used to somethings have gone down hill. But from much of what i read i have no problems with the biggest most annoying thing i have found is every so often the chats act up.(not the comments they are fine.) so hike up your big boy pants and get out or get over yourself. DA over all is still an amazing place for artist especially young ones to show there work. AND HELL! If kids under the age requirement are on dA its not there fault pay attention to your children! Then you will not have these problems. Any weasels have a nice day y'all.

I have been a member of Deviantart for over 8 years.
The site itself is great, no complaints. Layout makes submitting, viewing, searching, ect easy and enjoyable.
The only problem I have on this site is with the younger/immature users. If you become a pretty popular artist, You will run into harassment and "trolls" whom will attempt to insult and discourage you.
Just ignore them, block and report. Deviantart staff have always been fast and reliable for solving my problems with such users, suspending and freezing their accounts fairly quick.
You may also have problems with art thieves. But, Deviantart protects all your work and is also fairly quick to remove it from the thieves account and banning them from the site.
They also help prevent theft of your work posted on other sites.

I love this site! It's really inspiring to see very good artists on the web. I appreciate everything they do from drawings to photography. I personally love the way some artists here create digital portraits. Just when I thought that drawing or painting in canvass was difficult, they could do this on a computer now. Really amazing!

I also like browsing on different caricatures they made. I thought of joining but I'm a little embarrassed of what I will post there. :) Great site!

It used to be much better at one time than it is now. While some good art can still be found there, it takes more and more effort to find it. The main problems now are that they do little to nothing about SPAM messages, chain-letter type messages and other garbage like that which merely misuse the comment-feature. But the overall atmosphere of the site has declined as well. Only positive and/or popular comments and opinion are allowed; any form of constructive criticism or, for that matter, any dissenting opinion of any kind, is not tolerated and even censored in some cases. It is highly ironic that a website ostensibly for creators to display their work should have evolved into an environment that is so averse to the expression of different opinions. PC Groupthink is increasingly the mindset there.

I'm now going on four years as a proud deviant. I've earned a lot of friends here, and for the most part, people are nice. A lot of amazing art on here, and many many people with potential that I just love encouraging. <3

The deviantART staff are very busy, so be patient when submitting a question. I have seen them handle many "trolls" effectively. If some kid decides it'll be cool to steal art, everyone is on your side and they get banned almost immediately. In all honesty, these trolls are freaking hilarious, but if you have better things to do, just ignore them.

People will kindly give you critiques. On occassion you'll find an a--hole who has to argue with everybody; just ignore them and know you're the better person. You'll find trolls everywhere, not just dA.

I love the community and there are so many ways to ge discovered!

I had spent over twelve years on DeviantArt and I must say that it is absolutely a nightmare now than what it used to be. What was once a fun and entertaining website to be on as I eagerly enjoyed daily usage, now I dread having to even sign on to see what garbage has decided to bother me now.

If it's not the bot followers I receive, there's always either some fricking underage kid or pedophile fetishest adding innocent artworks to their dirty collections. I despise what this website has become, absolutely no control over the amount of garbage users have been joining in recent years (i.e., the bots, kids and pedos) posting terrible half-attempt drawings that provide no value.

To make things worse, DeviantArt now supports A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) "art" on its platform, as well as forcing a paywall on an important feature like "2-Step Authenticator" is only available for Core users.

What has become of this website? It's practically on life support at this point.

Deviant art is a great site for building your own page, making friends, sharing art and doing various other related things. It's recently got clubs and stuff too.
I can't recommend a greater art sharing site for community but ofcourse being popular gives it some problems. There's plenty of idiots and art thieves along with people who like turning it into a porn site. Still if you're able to ignore these kind of pictures and people you can make good friends and have lots of fun.