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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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One thing I discovered about Wix the other day. They are active on their public GitHub repos and they are have very high quality React Native packages!

We used their react-templates extensively last year and the experience was mostly positive.

This year we are moving from React to Vue. In parte because we prefer working with HTML + directives than JSX, but also because Vue is more pragmatic and much nicer on beginners and people coming from jQuery.

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

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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

As often as this comes up, I see know quite a few German people (artists, and people with basic web site needs) using wix.

I feel that more and more people seem ok with services just not being named in their local language.

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

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Has there been any development to the Wix/Wordpress story ?

Not enough information, what story exactly?

My bad, this story[1] about Wix "stealing" code from Wordpress.

[1]:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/wordp...

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I thought you were exaggerating, but holy cow... maybe those who disagree can find me a site from http://www.wix.com/explore/websites for which that doesn't hold true, because I gave up after a few which were all incredibly abysmal. Yeah, those sites are "stunning" alright. Aesthetically very bland and samey, but technically utterly stunning. I wouldn't even know how to make something that slow without using a combin…

It doesn't help that they apparently couldn't bother to proofread the subtitle on that page.

> With 1000s of stunning options, no two website are the same.

"two website" => "two websites"

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Flickr is the only part of Yahoo that is worth anything. The question is how much.

The also own Tumblr, you know, the site that pretty much killed deviantArt in the first place.

How did Tumblr kill DA? They're incredibly different, though used mostly by the same demographic.

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

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I remember spending many hours browsing dA back way back when. There are so many art/design/etc communities now that I'm sure it's getting more difficult to retain users.

What are some other art communities? I've been looking for a decent alternative for a while

People typically use Tumblr at this point. It's not designed for art, and it has issues with big images, but it has a fairly active community, so people use it. There's also niche sites, like FA for furries and various boorus for anime fans. There's also a semi-active twitter artist community, although 90% of those people also post elsewhere.

Shameless plug: I've been stealth-working on an art site for several years, so you could try that out if you'd like. That's at https://www.imagehex.com/.

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

#110

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…

Imagine if they would charge for this and share with the artist.
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