Deviantart V6 what do you think?

[Spenny]

Yeah, the new version of DA is up.
http://www.deviantart.com
http://news.deviantart.com/article/52608/

What do you think of it?

Personally, I'm finding it incredibly clunky and really badly organized. Everyone with a slower connection complains that it takes forever for the page to load, and I agree... its loading all of this crap that I care nothing about. Even if you hide the footers and whatnot like they've allowed, its still technically loading and there. I dunno... maybe they should make it so there are DA skins you can choose from.

[Jodie]

It's going to take some getting used to, that's for sure. I've been trying to digest it all for the past two hours.

[Iruka]

Eh, I think its alright. It has its ups and downs. I like the bar on top, I'm okay with the new message center. We'll see how bad it is when the messages are piled up.

I tell you, though, every gaming review site is worse. Every. last. one.

[satek]

Though it hasn't updated for me, I see they still haven't fixed the fact that deviantart is a very ugly site to behold. You think an artists community would have a more eye pleasing design and colour scheme... That introductory video was more than cringe worthy. I like Deviantart, I just don't like what it seems to have become over the years.

*EDIT*

Ok it is working for me now. I can see what they were trying to do and have to admit that it does feel a bit nicer and more cleaned up than the last version. But there is too much information everywhere as spence said. Love the fact now non subscribers can see thumbnails in their watch list. This means it's far easier to go on commenting I think. Also the message centre does seem more user friendly. Still why is deviantart such an ugly shade of green? If it's to not take away from the art then could it at least be gray?

[phoq]

Love the fact now non subscribers can see thumbnails in their watch list.

What's the point of being a suscriber now..?

I'm not so fond of the new DA so far. It's crowded and I really hope there's a way to manage that visual pizza of everything. I feel like I just installed a new software and it also installed a buncha crap like toolbars and "help" elements that really doesn't help. It will take some time getting used to. I'm also sick of the sickly green shade. It doesn't help the art either to be on a greenish background, Grey would really be better...

*Edit* Also, I hate how they always sneak those updates on us.

[Nihilist]

I can't stand it. It takes forever to load. I think though that v4 was the best, and this is just.... ew.

[Spenny]

Yeah... all good points.
I guess I got used to the green or something, I forgot how disgusting it is!

[cacodaemonia]

I'm not a huge fan or the message center, which is where I spend most of my time on DA. I like to view deviations by artist, rather than by date, and whenever I try to clear deviations in that viewing mode, Firefox crashes. Hopefully they will sort out that bug soon. But, yeah, like several others have said, I find the message center to be fairly clunky. I'm getting use to it, but I think I preferred the precious incarnation.