phenoms

Right from the beginning I've had nothing but problems submitting my artwork to dA. My very first journal entry was in protest of dA's extremely restrictive policies: That journal entry talks about me unintentionally being on the wrong side of dA's overly restrictive copyright policies. Essentially that dA's policies aren't in accordance with ACTUAL copyright laws. Copyright laws permit new copyrights to be created by obvious alterations to other copyrighted works. As long as the alterations are obvious and substantial enough that the new art will not be confused with the former art, it legally is not a violation of the copyrights of the for

Its been many years since I've used dA. I'll log-in sporadically, but that can be months or even years apart. Recently, I've been logging in again only to discover a multitude of "technical difficulties". This journal entry is to document them, call out dA, and ask what the heck is going on? The new "Eclipse" design keeps "slowing down" Firefox even when its the only thing I open. There's no excuse. Technical difficulties part 1 of 2 Technical difficulties part 2 of 2 After having switched "Eclipse" off to "dA Classic", I'm supposedly blocked by ~Rio-dEyez (https://www.deviantart.com/rio-deyez). That makes no sense. I wasn't blocked until trouble from the yellow warning b

So I was trying to get some inspiration to create something new for my dA gallery. I stopped by the Amaz0ns forum as I was about to start seeking art or photos there and then here at dA to inspire me. The very first post I noticed was one by Lingster that he was sitting in the chat room. I detoured to chat thinking the post was 40+ minutes ago and that no one would be there. To my surprise, Lingster was still in there as well as one other member. I stuck around to chat and mentioned what was on my mind (looking for inspiration). I then got the idea to try asking here in a journal post for suggestions. Lingster had an interesting suggestio