I'm on Buzzly, or: dA done fucked up.
Feb. 5th, 2022 03:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
general_radixHere's my debut piece.
So, dA rolled out an update for notifications. It was not a good update. The new notif system is clunky, laggy, and a chore to deal with because, for SOME reason, "select all" wasn't carried over; what took two or three clicks at most now requires a fuckton as you delete each notif one-by-one, each usually requiring you to confirm the deletion first. It might seem like a minor thing to non-dA users, but trust me: it's FUCKING AWFUL. And this is coming from someone who's otherwise fine with Eclipse.
Meanwhile, Buzzly's been praised as the Dreamwidth to dA's LiveJournal: everything that was good about older iterations of dA, minus the unpopular decisions. You can even use subfolders right off the bat (unlike on dA where they're paywalled), which helps immensely with organization. Hopefully, it'll stick around longer than Sheezy.Art did--goddamn "dA competitors" that don't know how to run one and implode in five months, grumble curse mutter...
Am I leaving dA entirely? Not yet. But as I saw another person put it, that site has become Sunk Cost Fallacy incarnate, and I'm kinda worried that the next big update is gonna completely tank it. (Plus, it partnered with a notorious EnEffTee mill...that's never good.)
To anyone who hasn't dusted off their dA in a while (by which I mostly mean Juzo-kun, if you happen to see this): it probably ain't worth it. Consider the bee. 3/15/22 EDIT: WELP.
So, dA rolled out an update for notifications. It was not a good update. The new notif system is clunky, laggy, and a chore to deal with because, for SOME reason, "select all" wasn't carried over; what took two or three clicks at most now requires a fuckton as you delete each notif one-by-one, each usually requiring you to confirm the deletion first. It might seem like a minor thing to non-dA users, but trust me: it's FUCKING AWFUL. And this is coming from someone who's otherwise fine with Eclipse.
Meanwhile, Buzzly's been praised as the Dreamwidth to dA's LiveJournal: everything that was good about older iterations of dA, minus the unpopular decisions. You can even use subfolders right off the bat (unlike on dA where they're paywalled), which helps immensely with organization. Hopefully, it'll stick around longer than Sheezy.Art did--goddamn "dA competitors" that don't know how to run one and implode in five months, grumble curse mutter...
Am I leaving dA entirely? Not yet. But as I saw another person put it, that site has become Sunk Cost Fallacy incarnate, and I'm kinda worried that the next big update is gonna completely tank it. (Plus, it partnered with a notorious EnEffTee mill...that's never good.)
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Date: 2022-02-19 10:05 pm (UTC)I see; guess turning Photoshop into a (very poor) subscription service wasn't enough for Adobe. >.>