Ugh...

[ellenmillion]

Terrible, terrible idea. Deviant art is going to be adding interstitial ads for folks who aren't logged in. Blech, uck, yuck, ew. I HATE those. Gross to the max.

(Yes, I grew up in the 80s.)

Also, perhaps they'd have better advertising revenue if they ANSWERED requests about advertising. For example, my request. From several weeks ago. I got the initial .pdf of 'how great are we' info, but there was nothing about who to pay. So, I wrote back and asked. No answer.

Gah. HATE ads.

Need a stabby icon.

Comments

[steppinrazor.livejournal.com]

Man. I dislike DA more and more and more...

Honestly, I'm not really sure why I even have accounts there oO

[gymnopedie.livejournal.com]

gods.. chicken little just smashed me in the face. no more browsing while at work X-x

only reason I stay there is because linda bergkvist favorited a pile of my stuff and I get a modestly high amount of exposure from that >.>

[renatus.livejournal.com]

OH BOY. Great. All of the other nonsense there I didn't really care about but the ad thing actually bothers me enough that I want to pick up and move elsewhere. Trouble is finding a place, since between my ability and that I don't do art that's always easy to put into a particular genre (or in some cases, isn't genre at all), that might be a problem.

[renatus.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah - wasn't it "grody to the max"? ;)

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Probably, but I was NEVER cool enough to get the slang right. :P

[renatus.livejournal.com]

I think it was. I was pretty young in the '80s (between the ages of 1 and 10), but my mom was in her 20's that decade so a lot of the slang stuck in a way it might not have otherwise if she had been older.

My reaction to the dA thing? Gag me with a spoon! ;)

[gymnopedie.livejournal.com]

oh man.. i say that from time to time.. and my sister that's 10 years younger just kind of... looks at me funny.

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

Urgh.

The problem with DA is that while it sucks in so many ways, it's still the best thing for exposure--I get ten thousand times the traffic that I ever got at Elfwood or Epilogue. So until the next big gallery comes along, we're all kinda stuck with it...

[aminamithri.livejournal.com]

So grateful for AdBlock, haven't seen ads anywhere in ages.

[celticwren.livejournal.com]

Sick the squirrel on them!

For some reason I first read that as "intestinal ads". <:)

[celticwren.livejournal.com]

or is that supposed to be "sic"...?

[piotrov.livejournal.com]

I had no idea those were called "interstitial" ads until now... yep, still hate 'em.

The "portfolio" idea sounds theoretically like a good idea. dA's changing around their whole interface, though, so who knows what it'll end up being like when it finally appears.

[dewgeist.livejournal.com]

"Interstitial"? They went right past subcutaneous...and yeah, the ads get under my skin too.

[pixiewildflower.livejournal.com]

I guess I'll have to find another gallery. I subscribed to keep ads off my page. I know I won't see them, but I don't want my visitors too either.

[pixiewildflower.livejournal.com]

I am going to post this in my journal too. If enough people complain, maybe they'll change their minds.