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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 20after4 »

roryisok wrote: post #74
neom wrote: post #8

From 2001-2007 I worked on helping build the community at dA. Had such an interesting and unique childhood and teenage years due to deviantART (and IRC). I owe everyone from that time a huge thank you for helping me become who I am today. It lost all it's magic (for me) when Scott and Eric Kolb left. Angelo is an absolutely amazing guy and I really really admire him but it was pretty sad to watch the community die. F…

> Chris Bolt the dude who built a lot of the tech there is INCREDIBLY Incredibly what? =) I haven't touched my DA account in years, but more because I've stopped drawing than any issue with the site or community. I was exposed to the work of a lot of amazingly talented people through DA, that I probably would not otherwise have seen. http://rorypyro.deviantart.com/

He's one of the best MySQL admins on the planet, for one.

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

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Post by 20after4 »

cahoot_bird wrote: post #137

About 8 years ago I got a virus while viewing someone's portfolio on DeviantArt on a page when my computer rebooted. My best guess is maybe it was through third party ads. I've never completely trusted DeviantArt ever since.

They have a lot of problems with that. The reason: Most ad networks lump them in with porn sites because they allow adult content to be uploaded. Most major brands won't touch it so the display ads are very low quality and riddled with malware.

I did quite a bit of work on tracking down and swatting the malware ads but they were almost impossible to track down and there was no accountability through the ad networks.

(I worked as a developer at deviantArt from 2009 to 2013)

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

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Post by 20after4 »

glasz wrote: post #172

always wondered what dA's stack is. anybody has any insight?

Very straightforward traditional LAMP with lots of database sharding and various smart optimizations to handle extreme traffic volumes.

They used to have a custom file storage back-end which resembles something like swift. That may have been replaced with AWS after I left.

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

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Post by navs »

neom wrote: post #125
clydethefrog wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? It seems like Wordpress still offers the perfect balance between usability and flexibility. At least that was my conclusion after doing research for an association that was looking to host their own website. Wix options seemed to be very static while Wordpress has a plugin for everything. And it's free while you had to pay for "social media plugins" in Wix.

You're a few degrees more technical than their target demo I'd imagine. For my sister getting her jewellery business going, she was going to pay a local guy $1,250 to stand up a digitalocean droplet and build a custom site for her, I told her about squarespace and shopify - that was that.

Curious, she's using both Shopify and Squarespace? I believe the latter offers Ecommerce as well.

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

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Post by neom »

navs wrote: post #194
neom wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're a few degrees more technical than their target demo I'd imagine. For my sister getting her jewellery business going, she was going to pay a local guy $1,250 to stand up a digitalocean droplet and build a custom site for her, I told her about squarespace and shopify - that was that.

Curious, she's using both Shopify and Squarespace? I believe the latter offers Ecommerce as well.

This was like a year ago, but I'll let her know, thanks. :)

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

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Post by jkaptur »

mseebach wrote: post #186
egeozcan wrote: post #52

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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…

This reminds me of the "webmaster" days when the debate was over whether doing HTML could be considered "programming". My position then as now is that being a programmer (developer in this context) requires programming a programming language, and neither HTML or Wix is that. On the other hand, in practice, in the presence of a technology that non-programmers can use to build perfectly viable products, the onus is pro…

Sharepoint, Wordpress, and SAP fit that description too.

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

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Post by sxates »

blhack wrote: post #160
sxates wrote: post #145

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I remember chatting with Scott on ICQ when he was building the site at the very beginning. He sent me a link to test uploading something, which I did - a screenshot of my desktop. It's one of if not the oldest remaining submissions, and was the first 'daily deviation' (for lack of other content, I'm sure!). Lots of great people around communities like this back in the day, but then so many of us seemed to grow out of…

Oh c'mon, you have to link to a piece of internet history like that!

It was this one: http://pressf8.deviantart.com/art/bSCATES-Desktop-2-1-19

I think there's one that's older by url count, but this was the first featured one, and I think second oldest surviving.

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

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Post by bluetwo »

thinkMOAR wrote: post #184
bluetwo wrote: post #67

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I hope you deleted your artwork first. If you simply close your account, your work will still show up in searches.

they explicitly mentioned all my stuff will get deleted.

have you checked?
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