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Is there any way now to load a random deviant (or random deviation, etc.)? The change from the [username].deviantart.com to www.deviantart.com/[username] style of URL meant that there was a conflict between adding /random to get a random deviant and the account that actually has that username, so that no longer works -- but is there any other way? I used to do this a lot to find random people to hand out llamas to in hopes of getting them back.

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tee hee.

1 min read
Lol

lol. This only happened because I pressed Esc to stop the page while it was still loading, not because something actually went wrong. I'm just amused at the oldskool "Guru Meditation" thing and then "llama on fire", sorta like LJ used to have something about Frank the Goat chewing on the wires and Tumblr used to have that Oatmeal art with the green beasties.

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ARGH.

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Besides that I just don't like Eclipse in general (although, at least in the green theme, they do seem to have improved resource usage since the early demos and it's no longer fatally choking my browser), there are some definite quality-of-life regressions here... like:


You don't get a dropdown menu of favorites folders to add something to, nor can you drag a deviation towards the top of the screen to get at them that way. I can only "add to favorites" and then have to take a separate action to put it in the folder I want.


No share option for Livejournal, which I used a lot (albeit I was copying and pasting to Dreamwidth, which never had a native option). Not happy that I'll have to construct those posts by hand.


Menu coding that makes it impossible to open something in a new tab (such as a tab for submitting this journal entry) or bookmark a specific option (like having my bookmark for my watch feed be for "All" instead of "Deviations").


These are just things I've discovered in a few minutes today. I'm sure there are more waiting for me :-/


eta: Yep:

No easy way to get thumbnail code for an image.

Colon-code(i.e. : devshyfoxling : ) for deviant names now works in some places but not others. If you're going to change something like that, change it everywhere, dammit.


eta 2:

As alluded to above in complaining about menu coding, default for /watch is Deviations, not All, with no way I can see to change this. I missed a bunch of notifications of other types for several days before I noticed this. (And All is listed first... why the heck is the first option not the default?)

When you click through a notification to the deviation, you used to get special page elements for navigating through and removing notifications while staying on deviation pages. No more - I have to individually click back, reselect the notification, then delete it. (Or open everything in tabs, which I normally do on desktop, but not always on tablet).

The visual indicator that a notification is actually a stack is very faint and hard to see. Most of the time I don't notice until I've clicked it and only then does the number in the stack become visible.

More clicks if I want to delete multiple notifications/stacks at once.

No indication of comments on group voting items and it's a pain to even get to them. At least *that* is directly bookmarkable...

What is with all the dead space up there between the entry title and the text?

I see arrows on either side of the imageon deviation pages, but they don't do anything. (Might be a problem with this version of Safari, or maybe it's expecting a hovering gesture I can't do on my tablet?)

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DEVIANTART. CUT IT OUT. QUIT FLIPPING THE ECLIPSE SWITCH WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. GETTIN' REAL TIRED OF YOUR SHIT HERE.

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Awww, crap.

2 min read
Apparently the day has come (at least for me - probably there has been a staggered rollout) when Eclipse turns from "opt in" to "opt out". Between a few hours ago and now, it was turned on for me without my action or consent, which made it impossible to find my group notifications to attend to. Took me a little while to realize the switch was still there and it wasn't over yet. I wrote what I thought was a journal entry to complain (to my tiny audience, heh) and was annoyed to find it was not editable after the fact. So I deleted it and here we are. But... yikes. I really have a fear this is going to make dA unusable for me and I will finally decide to leave when my current subscription expires in a few months.

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