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Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M

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Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M

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Post by debt »

blackhole wrote: post #10

One potentially alarming sentence in this article is "Wix will open up DeviantArt’s repository of art and creative community to the Wix platform, giving Wix’s users access to that work to use in their own site building." Exactly what do they mean by that? Will it be opt-in? Will it only cover art that's already under Creative Commons? Will be it all Creative Commons? Does a Wix site count as commercial use? I can't i…

It means artists will start making money from the art they've put on DeviantArt instead of it just being a "repository".

Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M

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Post by pdpi »

buro9 wrote: post #70
blackhole wrote: post #10

One potentially alarming sentence in this article is "Wix will open up DeviantArt’s repository of art and creative community to the Wix platform, giving Wix’s users access to that work to use in their own site building." Exactly what do they mean by that? Will it be opt-in? Will it only cover art that's already under Creative Commons? Will be it all Creative Commons? Does a Wix site count as commercial use? I can't i…

https://about.deviantart.com/policy/submission/ 3. License To Use Artist Materials. As and when Artist Materials are uploaded to the DeviantArt Site(s), Artist grants to DeviantArt a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to do the following things during the Term: a) to prepare and encode Artist Materials or any part of them for digital or analog transmission, manipulation and exhibition in any format and by…

  a) We can re-encode your images, to whatever format
     we need to make the website work.
  b) We are allowed to display the pictures online.
     If something happens and the internet stops existing,
     we'll still be allowed to show people pictures where
     we go after the web. We are also allowed to display
     pictures not only by themselves but also as part of
     a gallery. E.g. in search results.
  c) We're allowed to resize, convert to grayscale, etc
     so that galleries, search results, etc, all work
     the way a modern website is expected to.
You need all those rights to be able to operate DeviantArt. You really don't want the licence to become the limiting factor when you implement a new feature on the website, so you need to be quite broad.

Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M

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Post by neom »

cat199 wrote: post #100
neom wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I deleted my twitter because it's a distracting insular tire fire, however, I'll find you on FB. :)

Sorry to interject, but does this imply that FB is not a distracting insular tire fire? hmm...

Personally, I have only a few very close friends, and I only open FB once or twice a week to see what their kids are doing. so no, for myself it isn't.

Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M

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Post by subpixel »

mcbits wrote: post #59
egeozcan wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are a definitely "person who develops for web" but not necessarily a Web Developer within the context of any community which assigned a specific meaning to that title. The definition may, of course, change over time and it already differs across communities. On the top of my head, I know many freelancers who wouldn't consider you a web developer without good Photoshop skills and many JavaScript- oriented develope…

The first I heard of Wix was a few months ago when a local news site deployed their new design. The page would be completely blank for 10-15 seconds while it made hundreds of requests for useless little React turdlets. As far as I can tell, they "fixed" it by moving away from Wix. If that's normal for a Wix site, then I would say no, nobody involved on either side of the transaction is a web developer except in the m…

A few years ago every Wix site was Flash. So...progress, and apparently profit.

Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M

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Post by NM-Super »

cft wrote: post #107

Apparently prices scale non-linearly with the market share. Wiki says it has 26m members, and yet the price is 1% of Snap. Snap definitely doesn't have 2.6bn users.

There's very few completely linear relationships in all of economics. Economies of scale, especially, are often at least polynomial.

I'd say a website with 100 million members is worth far more than 4x as much as a site with 26.

Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M

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Post by tannhaeuser »

Sujan wrote: post #50
tannhaeuser wrote: post #42

Well I can say wix.com definitely isn't going to fly in Germany (eg. for the same reason that Mitsubishi's "Pajero" vehicle isn't marketed under that name in latin/US America and Spain) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Pajero

Actually: https://www.reddit.com/r/marketing/comments/3d1ux4/wixcom_ma... 160k views on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkAQLw5w1U4 Your weakness can be your strength...

"toilet humour" is ... golden

Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M

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Post by jaleh »

The DeviantArt platform and community had an immense impact on pushing me creatively in my early teen years and onward. I have not experienced anything like it since. Had it not been for DeviantArt, I'm not sure if I would have pursued my art and design career as early and as seriously as I did.

I truly hope that this chapter will bring the unique magic of DeviantArt to a new audience.

- A "til Hell freezes over" tier Core member

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