DeviantArt Reviews

by Zipper Dragon

First the scrolling issue, every 15 or so arts will repeat again and again until you spam scroll past them, then it happens again. Then they remove the ability to see a list of every new art by timeframe, making being found randomly much harder. I also used to be able to click a tag on an art to see recent new arts for that tag. That is gone, now it only shows popular for that tag at all times. Then they separated the group and written post by sidebar, so you can’t see all updates in one spot. You also cannot edit your post! And get this, GET THIS. The main screen, of all popular arts, when I try to scroll down it, crashes DeviantArt . Yes the most popular drawings, I only get to see about 7 of before it crashes when you try to scroll down it. Its so sad that DeviantArt had to stoop to the site level! Its becoming unusable.

by @frybanshee139

I don’t know what you guys did with your latest “update” but have you ever heard the saying “if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it”? The previous version was just fine! At least I could submit deviations on mobile in that version! But now? DeviantArt crashes every single time I try to press the submit deviation button! And as if that wasn’t bad enough, the explore page is seriously buggy. The deviations repeat themselves almost endlessly, making it hard to find what you were looking for! Rating 1 star because of this. Fix these issues, or bring back the old version, and I might consider changing to three stars. If you do it within three weeks, five stars :)

UPDATE: Okay, now I can’t even access anything! I thought it was my connection, so I turned off Wi-Fi, but that didn’t do anything! I wish I could rate 0 stars. Your app doesn’t even work anymore!

Update to update: The same problems persist. The only thing that was fixed was the submit button, but now whenever I try to reply to comments on my deviations, status updates, and profile, DeviantArt will randomly crash and not even let me type a reply!

by The Doctor 1998

As everyone knows, DeviantArt underwent drastic changes, but with those changes came a decent amount of bugs and inconveniences. It’s not just DeviantArt though, the site is damaged and the DeviantArtExplorer app is damaged. On DeviantArt, I can’t scroll through a collection without seeing the content repeat itself. On the Explorer app, I can’t even see my whole collection. On the website, I wanted to see the first picture I favorited, so I changed the browsing settings from scrolling to pages, but that setting really doesn’t do anything but frustrate the users because it doesn’t change the browsing settings. DeviantArt was working fine before the update, and I am fine with changes so long as it’s for the better. I have nothing against the design, but the functionality of the apps and the website need to be fixed or the users will just become too frustrated with this app all together. I don’t expect anyone who has a say in how DeviantArt is being ran to read or even consider what I’m saying, but I have been too frustrated with how many things need to be fixed to stay quiet.

by DunoYet

Ok. To start it off when you go to the search menu and search something it keeps repeating the same 10 rows or so over and over and eventually it goes to the next 10 or so rows and repeats.
Second, half the stuff on my recommended page is half naked anime girls, first of all I don’t like it and second I don’t think everyone wants to see that the first time they open DeviantArt that may result in the deleting DeviantArt . Third make it so the drawings fit in the screen so you don’t have to click on it, and pls make an option we’re you can instead of it being one big row make it so it’s like a page from a graphic novel when your scrolling through art. And last but not least, fourth, sometimes when I’m scrolling through art the pictures are real pixelated and take like 30 seconds to not be pixelated, and sometimes it’s just black, there is nothing but black. Fifth, add a recent tab we’re the most recent artworks can be seen so we don’t have to wait 30 years for someone to see our art
It would be nice if you fixed these so pls do.

-DunoYetYT

by Lazerman56

DeviantArt used to be good, despite the infamous repeat search result bug. It was simplified several times as far as I remember, but I still enjoyed typing in a search and scrolling around the most recent or popular results. Now though, the search function barely works. I type the word “ball” and it comes up with nothing. I’m just using that as an example here. Try “Zelda.” It won’t work. And I don’t know if it’s because of something I did, or if there’s something weird in my feed, but now if I scroll far enough down in my home feed, DeviantArt just flat out crashes. Sure, this app is better on desktop anyway, but it should NOT be this bad on mobile. I would recommend using the mobile website instead, but even that pesters you to use an account. I love the artists on this platform, but DeviantArt is hurting them by not working.

by _chloe_ARMY

Is it just me or does my phone keep detecting viruses after I go on this app? I pressed a download link to download pngs and it led me to a suspicious website. I went on that website and the first thing that popped up was this tab thing that said “press subscribe to continue.” At first I pressed canceled knowing how untrustworthy that website looked. So I went back to the this app app. I tried to find another way to download the pngs but there was literally no other way. I couldn’t download the file or open the link to the pngs. I tried finding other omg packs but they all led to the same suspicious link. Then I went back to the download link that led me back to the website and this time I pressed ‘subscribe’ since there was no other way. Immediately after I pressed it, my phone detected 3 viruses.

I talked about this to my friend who uses DeviantArt as well. Just a few moments ago, her phone notified her saying that her device detected 19 viruses. Right now, I’m extremely aware of what DeviantArt can do. I do not recommend DeviantArt to anyone for your own safety purposes.

by SilverSkyWarrior🏹⚔

There needs to be some serious upgrades fixing ACTUAL issues. Issues I’ve had for over a year and frustrate me to this day. The biggest one, I like to search a result that has hundreds of submissions a day. I can not describe my frustration when many search results will repeat over and over. It doesn’t make me use DA longer, only makes me want to quit DeviantArt . The mobile version was fine, it didn’t need a visual upgrade. I’d much rather have the old version restored. My biggest issue with the visual upgrade that frustrates me is the placement of the title. Who’s decision was it to make tiny titles where you can barely see them? I liked them at their previous position either at the bottom of the image in the watch feed or above the profile on the submission, especially with their larger size. You’re going to have thousands of happy people if you can at least fix these issues instead of focusing on the new appearance, it’ll make the new update bearable.

by Gruss_gott

1. After an hour spent searching DeviantArt , there appears to be no counterpart to manage who you follow list

2. You cannot view all in gallery, meaning you will not see upwards of half the content a user posts - even for users who don’t use folders things are missing from featured

3. You cannot hide or edit a comment (spent an hour trying - had to go to desktop mode in safari to do it), and apparently the same goes for posts as a whole

4. DeviantArt crashes 75% the time you try to open it and randomly while in use

5. In general, the interface is clunky and as a result it tends to open something other than what you intended

6. An issue with the site as a whole, you can’t search users, if an artwork happens to have a similar name it’ll appear first in results and often the search leaves out things done by the user you are looking for or leaving them at the bottom of the search

7. There doesn’t seem to be a way to switch to light mode in app, not everyone likes dark mode and some people actually have an eye disorder that makes dark modes worse for them - while I love eclipse (apparently the only one), let me use DeviantArt without getting a headache from the forced theme - this is a usability/accessibility issue

Overall, if you want to use this app, just bypass DeviantArt and use safari or something

by Chaaya Chandra

Worthless. The latest update turned a mediocre lackluster app into something completely useless. I used DeviantArt to monitor my at feed, not browse their site. You still have access to your text notifications and can even remove them from DeviantArt , but your art feed notifications are gone. Instead you just get a "following" tab with artwork from the people you follow. No particular order to it and no way to tell it that you've already viewed a piece.

Just like with their design of Eclipse, they seem to have just made design changes based on what a few liked and ignored anyone that had suggestions that didn't fit the mold. Great way to avoid feature creep I suppose, but when most people are only staying because there isn't another major art site, you better hope someone doesn't get large enough to push you over.

I suppose that mentality HAS worked for Facebook.

by Sammykittycat

I’m going to go ahead and mention the repetition thing, because that STILL happens and it’s still annoying. Trying to scroll through anything takes way too long because you have this glitch where roughly 15 images reappear over and over before you can get past them. This is painfully annoying, please fix it.
The real reason i’m writing this, though, is because of an issue i had this morning. Actually, it’s still happening. When i look at my “following” feed to see the latest posts my friends have made, i can’t see any of their posts. I only see the ENTIRE GALLERY of the person i most recently followed. I know for a fact that none of those posts were made today or recently edited, so why on earth am i seeing them all?! I tried scrolling through it all to see if my watch feed would load properly beneath this person’s whole gallery, but it stopped with their first post! Why on earth am i seeing nothing but one person’s gallery in my following tab?
This is a glitch, and it needs to be fixed. So does the repetition thing, since that’s been a thorn in everyone’s sides for months. So i’ll say this real loud so even yall in the back can hear me.
PLEASE FIX YOUR APP. Thanks.

by TheDemonfish

Updated today. App previously mostly worked and allowed users to index through new their watchlist to see new deviations by clicking a button in the top right. A few deviants were missing, but again, mostly worked.

Now i can’t figure out how to check through my watchlist by artist. To me, this is a critical issue that prevents my use of DeviantArt . It could be as simple as adding a deviants tab to the watch section and restoring that functionality.

Aside from this, there has been a lot more crashing, so I can’t troubleshoot this. At least they could roll it back to june or so, when I could figure out how to use it. :/

To be fair, one thing the devs seem to be focused on is making it easy to see new art, but it is difficult to follow a specific artist or a continuous story. Its kind of unfortunate, but I don’t think that DA/wix considers this kind of thing. They’d rather compete with stuff like tumblr/instagram/pintrest instead doing a flow style, which really isn’t applicable to any continuous works, especially if you have a high watchlist count.

Core feature I would want:
- The ability to sequentially look through my watchlist
- Stability (Less Crashing)

by Moge-ko

I’ve been using DeviantArt for a couple months, mostly for the convenience, but man it is not good. To list a few issues quickly, DeviantArt crashes often; sometimes while loading, sometimes for seemingly no reason other than browsing too much, and sometimes it doesn’t like one particular art piece and crashes whenever that piece is loaded. Sometimes links aren’t clickable and sometimes links are clickable but don’t take me anywhere. Sometimes when looking closer at an artwork, it won’t load the higher resolution at all and refuses to zoom in. Sometimes the description and comments don’t load. For some reason, if you try to share the work and press copy, it won’t copy the link, but only the title of the work. The list goes on. I want to be able to use DeviantArt but for a lot of these reasons I’ve had to use the browser version instead. I’m not sure how this was coded, but it’s evident that it needs a lot of work.

by Drizay

I’ve been waiting for DeviantArt to improve but it moves at a snails pace. It’s almost like no one is testing it on the latest devices. (iPhone 12 mini)
It’s hit or miss that you can tap a picture and enlarge it or make it “zoomable”. The search is worse than it was a few years ago. Searching general phrases, especially with spaces between words is a crap shoot. There are tags under images but they don’t seem to bring up other images with the same tag so why have them at all?
I don’t really use the desktop version anymore, I prefer apps. It’s the small things that make an app great and the small things on DeviantArt need work. The only reason I still even use it is because there is still great art on this app and no one else has come up with a better app for it. But our patience as users will only last so long before we just find a different art site to frequent. Please fix DeviantArt.

by Jdjdjnfncjdmuhln Hsfjj

I got DeviantArt a few months ago because I wanted to post my art and see other people’s artworks. That’s the purpose of DeviantArt right? Well...I opened DeviantArt this morning, just cause I wanted to see what was happening. I decided to see if anyone was making any Luca fanart, since it’s one of my favorite Pixar movies. As soon as the results came up I was horrified. I didn’t see what was happening at first, but then once I did it was awful. I cant believe people would do this to an innocent kids movie. I know that DeviantArt has a “mature content” setting that you can turn on if you don’t want to see any of it, but I feel like they need to pay more attention to what people are posting on here. At least like a warning before posting mature content would be okay. Thanks for reading my review and have a great day.

by This Update Makes Me Sad

I find DeviantArt very handy and much easier to navigate than the website. This most recent updated is not okay, though. I like how the statuses are fixed and display properly. I do not like the layout for posts, because it doesn’t feel like this app. It’s too crowded and everything kind of mashes together in a nonsensical mess. Another MAJOR issue I have (not sure if it’s just a glitch or this is actually a thing now) is when I click on a reply in my notifications, it takes me to the original comment. This is a huge problem because sometimes people get into long discussions in their comments, which means now they will have to go through a lot (sometimes hundreds) of replies just to get to the most recent reply in their conversation. It’s ridiculous and needs to be fixed urgently, please.

by Dragon Grace 2937

I’ve been using devart for a few years and it’s been good, the photos quality are really good but something that has been happening lately is well... repetition? For example, you go into someones folder or search something and when you scroll it repeats a row for a few times and although if you scroll enough it will move onto another row but then it happens again and it’s a bit bothersome and I sometimes am not able to see everything because it just takes so long. Please fix that for the future? Other than that DeviantArt is good overall! But maybe add features like being able to make folders on app version too and such?

by Natethethird3

Well as the title implies, is it possible to change my name cause I made my first real account when I didn’t really care for the name and now I regret it , cause now that I look back at my name it’s sounds like I had a stoke and hit the keyboard on random so please respond if it’s possible to change it cause it would really help me.

And oh yeah it’s a great app to meet other artists ,who range from making art with cardboard to digital art and I’ve downloaded some art from other people to use as reference so that I can improve my way of sketching characters that I want to put into a comic strip of mine, overall it’s a well balanced app with really cute art and some really bad things.

by Da Waaa

Ok I don’t write much about deviant art but after this update I have to so bare with me. This “new look” thing is really bad I tried to read a story you may call it and it didn’t pull it up and I couldn’t read it at all. Also it’s a pain for me to not be able to swipe left or right to change things fast but the new look makes me have to back out just to change it, and I can’t even tap the “more like this” tab. I would love it if it’s was like the old design or maybe a way to switch between the to thank you. I also can’t even search anything that I used to! It feels like the updates you get are just de buffing DeviantArt , I know people keep saying that but it’s because it’s a common thing now. I just advice you to bring the old “style back” and allow literatures to be read and to fix the search system, thank you.

by Kelayans

I’m giving DeviantArt itself high marks because it still looks amazing. The image resolution is great and most of the controls and options are smooth and responsive...

Unfortunately, I have some low marks to give out as well. When scrolling through both the main search page as well as an artist’s gallery page, I have been seeing a distressing amount of repetition. Maybe a dozen images in and the entire group repeats itself. And it doesn’t just do this once, but as many as six times before moving on. There is also the fact that you can no longer select the artist’s gallery from the title at the top of an image, but rather have to go through the information tab, assuming it manages to load.

Overall, I love DeviantArt , but it seems more updates are needed to correct the issues introduced since the last update. Thanks for the work you guys have already put in and I look forward to next fix.

by Jax2020😊

I’ve been using deviant art for about 2 years now, and up until recently is was 100% perfect. I use it to keep up with commissions and post my artwork. Everything about it is basically a dream. Except for one thing; Eclipse. I don’t want to be a Karen, but so absolutely HATE eclipse. I hate everything about it. The layout is bad, some comments get cut off because of it, and so much more. The day this app removed the option to go back to the good layout, there was a mass amount of people who switched websites for good. Literally the ONLY thing i ask is that they let us go back to the old layout. Then it would be the most perfect art app. I wish i could talk about how easy it is the navigate and such, but I just cannot do that until they either remove eclipse, or make a smart executive decision and bring back to option to switch to the old one. However, that is my only complaint :D

by Tuttaliny

DeviantArt it a good start but it is missing a lot of content.

For starters I can't use anything with groups and this is very infuriating. I'd like to be able to use DeviantArt to manage my group and be able to accept or decline submissions. I'd also like to be able to even look at my group because as of right now I can't. Even when I find a journal that was submitted by a group, I can't go to the groups page. I can't request people's deviations to be submitted to a group and I can't even view correspondent messages! DeviantArt is useless when it comes to groups.

Second is I'd like to be able to view my Notification Center. Don't get me wrong it's nice that I can see when people favorite comment reply and mention my stuff. But that is really only half of what should be there. I can't look and/or clear out my watch notifications like I can on desktop. Yes. There is a watch section, however this does little to nothing because it is very disorganized and I cannot remove deviations from the notifications. I understand that they were going for a feed but this is completely different and not to mention separate from they system that the desktop version uses.

I am short on time but I am certain there are many many more non included features but these are the two that I need the most but are for some reason not in DeviantArt .

by F•S•

DeviantArt keeps freezing when I open a comment or go to my profile and won't hardly load and it isn't because of my connection or internet because DeviantArt opens and loads fairly quick and submits posts swiftly as well. Please fix this.

Also, please look into an easier way to look through the watch feed. It's too much like Instagram and that gets tedious. It works so much better if all the art is in next areas with all the other artists stuff kinda like on the website. Filing is especially a better format for people who don't go through their feed in a while and pops in just to look for a certain piece at that moment and also allows you to clear out the watch feed so then I don't have to do it over the computer because lately, the online website runs too slowly for me to get on. It's tedious. DeviantArt has great features but it doesn't want to work at times and the watch feed is a terrible format.

by JennyLoveButtions

It's fun but I wanted to contact you but you did not leave a link or an email. The reason was because I haven't been able to sign up sense I first got it. And there is an artist and their work is very good but when I search the name it gives me no results. You need to update DeviantArt more often. It's almost a year sense the last update and there are a lot of bugs. There should be more then one way to search up things like maybe the name of a comic, characters people drew, hashtags, etc. As you can see there are many different things you could do to make your app more professionally but the most important thing is to listen to you customers. And yes I know that's really cheesy but you might get better ratings and more people might buy your app. I have been updating my feelings about DeviantArt and it's very frustrating because there are a lot of bugs and it's not working. I can't imagine what it was like before the update. Smh 🤦🏽‍♀️.

by Nox876

While I love the sleekness of design if DeviantArt, it’s not without its problems. Currently, I have an iPhone XR and when I had first downloaded DeviantArt, everything was fine. But then I started to notice that I stopped receiving notifications and when I look through my artist feed (to find stuff to save), I’ll click on the thumbnail, leading me either a blank screen or another artist entirely. I found one way around this was to turn my phone off and on again but that’s a temporarily fix and I shouldn’t have to go through such an unnecessary hassle to begin with. So I decided to take DeviantArt off my device and try back later down the line.

In all honesty, this app is notorious for claiming to fix bug fixes, when they’re always full of bug fixes and they don’t really pay attention to complaints but they’ll direct you to pot a problem on the from where they’ll might answer your question (not fix the problem).

by SilverxHyuk

Personally, one of my biggest issues with DeviantArt is not being able to delete the posts of Watched users—I have to do that on the actual site instead of DeviantArt . My second issue is that whenever I get on to check out any new posts from Watched users, it freezes without loading anything until I have to restart DeviantArt to get anything to show up under “Watch”. That happens every single time. Everything else seems to work decently, but I feel the aforementioned issues I’m having shouldn’t be there to begin with.

***EDIT***
Another thing I’ve had an issue with but forgot to put is when trying to view art in Undiscovered and other sections, the art will either not pull up at all—just a black screen with zero faves and comments—OR, for some unknown reason, it won’t be the art I tapped, but an entirely different post. So then I can’t favorite or view the art piece I wanted to. Like honestly, DeviantArt barely functions, now that I think about it.

by Black Wren

I have been with this app for years now, and when I discovered it had an app, I was thrilled because I wouldn’t have to go home to my computer to check this app and art I did on my IPad could go directly to Stash instead of emailing it to myself.

Flaw that irks me to no end. They designed it to be, from all appearances, exclusively portrait (vertical) and not landscape (horizontal). I have never found portrait very useful as an orientation except in photography. My IPad is usually in the landscape orientation due to me using a keyboard with it. I can’t use my keyboard if the IPad has to be Portrait. So that is a big turn off. If you people could please give the option for Lanscape orientation, I’d be more inclined to use your app. Otherwise its useless to me and will probably be uses as sporadically as the games I have that are exclusively portrait, or else I will flat out uninstall it and go back to be old method, which is sad.

by Lilmusickid

It's not the worst application in DeviantArt store, and its not even the most obnoxious thin-client port of a website. However, between the grinding slowness on loading (or typing lengthy responses) and the fact that the post-10.0.2 version no longer lets you view 80% of the notes you send/receive in your inbox (ignoring the fact that any notes organized in folders are completely inaccessible), If found it less of a pain in the but to just use mercury or safari to view the mobile version of the website.

If there was one thing the dev team for DeviantArt should look at its how the application deals with both displaying and inputting text. I lose posts to DeviantArt crashing or freezing constantly, and Ive gotten to the point where even after deleting and unloading DeviantArt , comments/journals/notes show up blank unless I open and close them a set amount of times. Even that 'workaround' no longer functions.

by ChaseDaBoss

DeviantArt would be awesome if it wasn't for one thing... Crashing. This has been a problem for me for a while now, but it has recently just gotten ridiculous. Right when I got DeviantArt, it would crash maybe once every 10 minutes. But recently, it would get to the rate of maybe 7 crashes in 5 minutes. One time after it had just crashed, I got back on it. The only thing I did was go to my favorites and it crashed again. Please fix this because DeviantArt is awesome and I love it, but all these crashes just get very annoying and infuriating. I'm sure others can agree, too. Also, the art or literature would sometimes not load. When I search something in the search bar, I would wait maybe 10 seconds for most of the art to load and start scrolling. But maybe 1 out of 5 times, the whole page would just be full of black squares. So, I would have to exit out of the page and search it up again and hope that it loads and/or DeviantArt doesn't crash while I am able to access the content.

Please fix, I'm suffering

by Haverliing

Thie mobile version of the website is, overall, alright; you are able to view profiles, yours and others, and look over your notifications, but it is only the feedback that you are able to delete. One thing I have noticed is that once you edit your personal info, such as your tagline, directly from DeviantArt , the deviantID widget is—if you haven't already done so—added to your profile when you view it on the computer. It can be quite annoying. You also seem to be unable to delete or edit your deviations/statuses from DeviantArt , as if they were read-only documents. This can be quite inconvenient, especially if you want to edit or delete your post and don't have a computer near you.

I have checked the updates, and it seems that this has not been updated in two years. Now, that is an awfully long time to leave it be when it has all this potential to become a better mobile version of this app, as guided by the reviews given to DeviantArt . It will not, if the developers are unwilling to take these reviews into consideration.

by Gameralex3

The this app app has multiple bugs and issues throughout. If all you want to do is look at art, DeviantArt is totally fine. Whenever you want to get just a *teensy* bit more advanced, though... First of all, the sharing feature is broken. You can copy the link of some art, but from what I’ve tried that’s basically all that works. The share sheet freezes the moment you try to summon it, and you can’t download artwork either. It says you can, but actually pressing the button will do nothing. I *did* give it access to my photos and videos; it still doesn’t do anything. Maybe it’s an app-exclusive download, and you use the share sheet to save something to your photos, but unfortunately in that case the share sheet is still broken. Also, when uploading art, you cannot change the display size, meaning it’ll most likely be stuck at a ridiculously low resolution until you hop on a computer, or even the web version of mobile DA, and fix it. Speaking of the web version, isn’t it funny how that version is way more functional than DeviantArt ?

TL:DR if you only want to view others’ art, and that’s WITHOUT being able to save them to your phone, DeviantArt works. For the people actually uploading art... it’s frustrating, to say the least.

by Camture350

Overall, the this app app does what I want it to: access my profile, like and comment on other's work, browse DA for pictures and such.

However, my main problem with DeviantArt is what I believe is its memory space usage. Whenever I do a search, the search results quickly start showing nothing for thumbnails as I'm scrolling down and then have a hard time showing anything I select before it just up and closes on me; forcing me to relaunch DeviantArt and search for what I was doing before. If I limit my search to just writing & literature it tends to last longer, but inevitably it does crash and I have to relaunch it. I don't encounter this kind of problem when I use Safari to search DA.

So if you're just wanting to use DA for a short time or a brief search, DeviantArt is pretty good. But if you're going to be going through a lot of stuff at once, you're best bet is to stick with an internet browser.

by Roxyuss Chimera

So I've been on this app for around 7 months now and it's a great service it allows people to easily share their art and gather a following, however this is not what DeviantArt should be. There are so many features missing from DeviantArt that are vital for getting the most out of the experience. As far as browsing goes it's great! You can search up anything you want and switch categories with ease. However it's from the creator's side that this is lacking it is impossible to find groups via DeviantArt as well as see things like badges, llamas, or that you're able to sell prints. For the first few months I had only used DeviantArt and I didn't even know that these features existed until one of my friends who had been on there for a long time told me about them. So basically DeviantArt is fine if you are just using it to see notifications on the go or something like that but not for posting work and sharing on groups ( two things that are quite vital to finding people that like your stuff )

by Lucy739274838

i’ve read some reviews and the ability to edit photos and published works of literature would be great. also, please, ADD MEDIA to comments. all the this app emojis are very important to me and idk if others but me and they should be included in DeviantArt too!! they’re a great way to express yourself and i love them so much. the watch is functioning but sometimes i want to be able to click on a pages picture and get a kind of gallery type look not just the four photos. like just click at the top area where the group your watching is listed and then see the gallery. all i can do is see it picture by picture. there should be a feedback button and a way to see how many new replies or comments and what ever the other types of feedback are. should be organized more like the desktop version. kind of. but i hope i helped you out!

by DivsM

I have been a deviant art member for 15 years and this is really feedback for the dA team. I use DeviantArt for browsing but it needs more options to make it useful even for just that. For example there are only 4 options when you browse by section (eg digital art- photo manipulation), newest, what's hot, popular and undiscovered. This is very frustrating because you can only see the popular deviations of all time. You cannot see what was popular this week or month which means you miss a lot of excellent work. 'What's hot' and 'undiscovered' are repetitive with the same art featured over and over again.
For users I would really suggest using the site even on a mobile because DeviantArt just doesn't have the same features and has quite a few glitches.

by 75tyler

While I like DeviantArt and enjoy its content, the mobile version has a lot of work to be done.
For example when writing a description of a submission, I’ve noticed that sometimes what you’re typing isn’t always visible. Sometimes it goes right below the keyboard instead of showing you what your typing. I’ve also noticed that you have to tap repeatedly in order to start typing again if you’ve stopped and aren’t in the interface anymore.
There’s also problems such as not being able to delete submissions on DeviantArt (where you can on a web browser), and rather difficult ways of tagging someone in a submission (which should be simplified across both platforms).
If these problems were to be fixed and improved, I think it would do DeviantArt very well to do so. Considering it hasn’t been updated in 3 years, it needs some work.