I have been on dA for close to 17 years. The site has gone from bad to worse and beyond worse.The site is infested with all sorts of bots and hacked accounts now occupied by bots.There is child porn running rampant.And even Pedophiles and pedophile groups. They are allowed and not banned. Even with children on the site Copyright infringement runs rampant and well the staff refuse to take any action. Even if someone files of 50+DMCA complaints against the thief. It took a legal threat for them to take action. Recoloring of official works or posting of licensed materials such as comic pages or screenshots run rampant because the staff won't take action UNLESS the company files a report. And these accounts are even given a daily deviantion awards at times. For work they didn't even make.Not to mention the real artist who file reports have been the one suspended or banned instead of the thief because admins not doing their job correctly. Some even doxxed for reporting.There is also the other problem of many victims of impersonation and theft on dA happen to user from outside of dA who can not understand how to report on dA. And dA refuses to let people report on their behalf. God forbid if a victim has mental illness and needs to report the stress is just horrendous and having to provide privite information that will be given to a thief or a troll.So many artists over the years left dA or the art world thanks to dA terrible job of protecting artistsAdmins don't seem to even know their own rules about pornographic material. And obviously pornographic materials (explicit and graphic penetration, fluids etc) are given a pass, bestiality porn given a pass and even child porn or fetish involving minors a pass. The report box checked as staffed cleared.(If people bothered to read the rules explicit porn, erection, aging up and fluids are forbidden . Mildly kinky/nsfw is fine if they are originally adults. I don'thate NSFW okay. But damn)Harrassment also is a major problem ONE the admins refuse to even lift a finger to deal with. One either gets no reply or get told to just block the aggressors.Deviantart admin will not do anything about bullies, threats or harrassment. You're on your own if you fall victim to the abuse.There are groups made to harrass certain groups (ie anti transgender groups/TERF, hate groups etc).Someone sends you a death threat or harrassing you on multiple account.. The admins will most likely go "that's their opinion, nothing wrong here. Just block and move on"There's even a user who harrassed, doxxed, told some they deserved to be r***d, writes pedo rape fiction, stole etc guess what she is protected those who called her out got punished instead.People have literally been bullied of dA because the admins not doing their jobs And well i still am waiting for a response made years ago about harrassment.Scammers ain't punished at all but dare call them out and you be the one in trouble instead.If you complain to much or send to many reports asking for help against theft or harrassment. Guess what the admins will block you. Block you from their account. Block you from help desk. Refuse to give you any help. They will even close your ticket without helping you.Report to many violations? Hey did you know you could be banned as well?Deviantart and it's admins and owners they don't care for it users, they only want your money at this point. It feelsThey refuse to listen to any of what the users, the life of dA are saying.Now the lesser complaint. Eclipse while some small possitives the whole new website it self is poorly made and runs terribly. It is optimized for mobile but it doesn't work on mobile and i presume majority of digital artist work via desktops and not mobile to work and upload. It still is unready for site wide release. And theyshould have waited till it was more complete.Removing categories was a bad ideaThe admins of dA and it owners Wix need to listen to what everyone is saying. If the masses are unhappy then that's a sign.I love dA but the way it has gone over the years sadly leaving a bad taste
