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Ideal dAv5 Launch, Poll: Votes counted!

Wed Aug 23, 2006, 5:37 AM
Ideal dAv5 Launch, Poll: Votes counted! - by Vincent Brown ( °attila )
Todays Message: deviantART, Inc. is NO LONGER run by high school kids?

Reading: "The Quiet Death of the Major Re-Launch" by Jared M. Spool




Please contribute to the poll with a thoughtful response, thank you.

That's right, the votes are in... and I think now would be a good time to recap my latest Journal Poll. I'll withhold my personal thoughts and analysis of the poll results until I get a discussion going between those of you who visit my journal and poll. Here's a news post i submitted about why major website re-launches & re-designs should be more thoughtfully executed.

So, in the graphic above you see the numbers and what they represent. 156 People, from various walks of dA-Life (some of them I know, some of them I don't) have contributed their responses. What do these numbers say to you? Do you think deviantART, Inc. listens to its members? Do you think deviantART, Inc. does what is right for its members? Do you think the official dA Poll asks the right questions? Do you think my poll asked the right question? Which comments do you agree with, which do you disagree with? Do you think there is any justification for deviantART, Inc. re-launching its website in a haphazard manner, without apology? (deviantART, Inc. has stated that they "planned" for dAv5 to be launched the way it was... do you buy that?)


Want more? Syndicated Commentary #001, Syndicated Commentary #002,
My Future @ dA (2005) & The deviantART Community (circa 2004)

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@quickdraw:iconquickdraw: Aug 23, 2006, 5:45:26 AM
I agree that I don't think anyone would have minded a delay as long as everything was running at at least 90%.

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`igy:iconigy: Aug 23, 2006, 6:35:16 AM
yup.

or probably first making it available for the beta testers for bug reporting. and then making it official and public.
or something like that :shrug:

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@quickdraw:iconquickdraw: Aug 23, 2006, 6:44:00 AM
Something like that would have been more plausible. I mean, that whole supersecretmode obviously didn't show enough.

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~hakfest:iconhakfest: Aug 23, 2006, 7:20:09 AM
This is useful as news entries such as 'Fat people are overweight: Official'.

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`duhcoolies:iconduhcoolies: Aug 23, 2006, 7:50:55 AM
yeah it should've been well implemented and less buggy before the launch... and the news system, especially, whould've first taken in as a pilot project before launching that feature :hmm: all the news system is now is a spammers playing field :no:

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*ap3x:iconap3x: Aug 23, 2006, 9:00:12 AM
Oh but they did make it available to testers ;) and all 5 of those testers loved it!

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*ap3x:iconap3x: Aug 23, 2006, 9:03:36 AM
I think on this poll I was one of the people who voted for on the birthday and buggy. Call it a bit of nostaligia, but as I can recall that has always been the way dA has launched new versions. Also, call it a bit of sucking up to agree with their decision in the public view, while I really felt they should have delayed it and held out for better quality.

I do have to say that you cannot hold them entirely at fault as they are doing the best job that they know how or can do, or so we have been told.

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°attila:iconattila: Aug 23, 2006, 9:09:48 AM
True, we really don't know the capabilities of deviantART... but I was made to believe deviantART has made significant strides since ousting Jark, and turning over a majority of their volunteer staff for paid, full-time employees. For me, I think I had a hightened expectation based on what I just mentioned, as well as all the hype that precluded the buggered re-launch. $spyed's justification (linked in my journal) for the result of the re-launch didn't give me much hope for the future either. I understand they can only do what they're capable of, but they also can't fault people for criticizing them when they advertise something that they don't deliver.

Thanks for participating in the poll ;)

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`igy:iconigy: Aug 23, 2006, 9:10:50 AM
nah not really ;P

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