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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Darth Mandarb on Mon 29/12/2003 20:28:14

Title: Deviant Art ...
Post by: Darth Mandarb on Mon 29/12/2003 20:28:14
I've been a Deviant for a little while now ...

I love the idea of that community but the server (or site code) TOTALLY SUCKS!!!

It's sooooo frickin' slow.

My question is this:
Are there any members here who are subscribing Deviants?  They claim that if you become a paying member the site speeds up.  Is this really true?  

I'll be damned if I'm going to give them any money for that slow of a site.  It's rather pathetic.

Thanks guys!

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Title: Re:Deviant Art ...
Post by: Squinky on Wed 31/12/2003 03:29:17
I have no idea what your talking about....heh

Do you have a link?
Title: Re:Deviant Art ...re
Post by: Evil on Wed 31/12/2003 03:50:40
I use LGM's server and upload my pictures to an online diary. www.xanga.com But as for Deviant, I would say screw it. You are probably better off making a website with your art on there. That way you have what you want without them bitching, giving you rules.

Whats your deviant number btw? I would like to see it. Heres my xanga if anyone cares... www.xanga.com/child_of_e
Title: Re:Deviant Art ...
Post by: Darth Mandarb on Wed 31/12/2003 05:47:02
Deviant Art is an online community for artists.  You post your art work there and it's a huge community so you get lots of feedback.

I like the idea ... but it's gotta be the slowest/shittiest server I've ever seen!

:: Deviant Art Main Site (http://www.deviantart.com) ::
:: Darth Mandarb's Page (http://darthmandarb.deviantart.com/) ::

Evil - I like your work.  I'm currently working on my own company's website.  Part of that is my portfolio site.  I think what I'll do is just use (free) Deviant Art to bring people to my website.  My server must be 20 times faster than theirs.

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Title: Re:Deviant Art ...
Post by: Eero on Wed 31/12/2003 08:17:55
Hmm, the site is pretty fast for me...
Title: Re:Deviant Art ...
Post by: Renal Shutdown on Wed 31/12/2003 11:12:01
It seemed pretty quick for me to..  faster than most sites, actually.  Weird, maybe my 33.6 has be buffing up recently.

Hugs
Iqu
Title: Re:Deviant Art ...
Post by: TheYak on Wed 31/12/2003 11:17:59
Must be just Darth.  Everything was pretty much instantaneous for me as well.
Title: Re:Deviant Art ...
Post by: Darth Mandarb on Wed 31/12/2003 16:07:13
Well f**k me :)

I wonder what's up with that?  Did you try to go into any galleries or view thumbnails?  That's usually where I run into the bottle neck.  Just the front page tends to connect quick for me too.

Or when I try to submit some work.

Anyway ... I'm shutting up now ;)

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Title: Re:Deviant Art ...
Post by: Alexis Vale on Sat 03/01/2004 15:18:17
Deviant Art is fast for me...most of the time. On other occassions, it seems to get extremely slow. I don't know why. I'm guessing it's traffic.
Title: Re:Deviant Art ...
Post by: Squinky on Thu 08/01/2004 06:14:59
The site runs friggin slow for me.....
Title: Re:Deviant Art ...
Post by: TheYak on Thu 08/01/2004 06:24:38
This is horribly non-scientific but:
10:20 PM (PST) from California.  Connection: 584kbps DSL via 10 Mbps wireless connection.

Main page load: 2.5 seconds
Main page Refresh: 2.65 seconds
View submission [4592263]: 2.7 seconds (r=514x682)
View submission [4576823]: 1.82 seconds (r=681x800)

Seems pretty quick to me.  I would have to assume that sluggishness is due to traffic at certain times of day and not do to the site itself.
Title: Re:Deviant Art ...
Post by: Eggie on Thu 08/01/2004 17:33:30
I have a deviantARt account. The server is generally okay for me. It takes about as long as a massive page filled with 30 or so thumbnails would usually take to load.

I like the site, it doesn't have too many rules.
Title: Re:Deviant Art ...
Post by: jannar85 on Fri 09/01/2004 14:04:24
It runs slow for me as well. Friggin 10 seconds before a page loads!! Cripes!!