I think the most interesting detail here is that Wix is doing well enough that it has $36M to spend.
wix and squarespace and godaddy are the new "wordpress site". I ran into a "Squarespace developer" here in Manhattan few weeks back.
Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M
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Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M
#52Yesterday, coincidentally, there was a surprisingly silly and heated discussion in a large Facebook group about whether a person who specializes in Wix can be considered a "web developer." ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/hackathonhackers/permalink/1... ) Hacker News is biased toward DIYing websites from scratch, but WYSIWYG builders like WIx are very important for those who aren't tech-savvy. DeviantArt, in a world…
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 developers wouldn't consider you one if you can't write a line of JS without using a library.
I, however, don't know any significant group which would call a person who can only author on Wix, a Web Developer. Ignoring that would surely create miscommunication and would be considered a wrong or misguided use of the title.
Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M
#53From 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…
I was there from 2000-2006 and feel the exact same. I grew up on deviantART. All my friends were there. It opened my eyes to many forms of creativity and I may have never become a designer or entrepreneur without it.
At the risk of embarrassing myself, here's what I was up to from ages 15-20: http://a-t-o-m-i-c.deviantart.com/
Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M
#54Thinking back on all of the fun I've had looking at DeviantArt posts over the years, I'm saddened that it's all only worth $36M. All that human effort...art is a tough gig.
Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M
#55One 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!
Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M
#56One 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…
Appears these are all the current agreements on their website:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:https://about.deviantar...
Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M
#57Wow. I didn't see that coming. I've used Wix in the past for a couple websites and I enjoy the platform but I am curious how they will benefit from this.
Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M
#58One 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…
For me it means enough, i just deactivated/deleted my deviant art account.
This unclearness, plus their in my humble opinion, horribly annoying youtube ad campaign, did not make me ponder about deleting my account for a second.
Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M
#59Yesterday, coincidentally, there was a surprisingly silly and heated discussion in a large Facebook group about whether a person who specializes in Wix can be considered a "web developer." ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/hackathonhackers/permalink/1... ) Hacker News is biased toward DIYing websites from scratch, but WYSIWYG builders like WIx are very important for those who aren't tech-savvy. DeviantArt, in a world…
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 most pejorative sense of the term.
Re: Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M
#60From 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…
Oh god, I remember this do vividly. Especially when Andrew joined, the dAmn thing and the hacking community, and then the Co founder drama and slow death.