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DA is a good place to "be". It has a couple of failings however, one of which is the need to have Malwarebytes running continuously when browsing DA. I have previously blogged here that DA users must take care as DA provides unvetted ads that can compromise the security of your system. Unfortunatel,y I was caught out yesterday myself as I had disabled malwarebytes after a major version upgrade. A few minutes of using DeviantArt and I was presented with one of those unvetted adverts and I was infected by a PUP - short for Potentially Unwanted Program or in fact malware as I was not asked as to whether I wanted to install or not - it just occurred. It was the opencandy.PUP that infected my browser, How do I know it was DeviantArt that caused it? Well the infection was preceded by a freeze opening a new page when browsing DeviantArt then Firefox crashed and required a restart. From then on all my searches were redirected and adverts popped up... Not good DA. You need to find a way to stop the delivery of dodgy ads to your unhappy Deviants.
A run through by malwarebytes quickly cleaned it up but this just goes to show how your defences need to be on guard all the time.
A second thing to dislike about DeviantArt is the DA app for metro - the Win8 desktop app. It is just a little bit crAp. You cannot log in (well I couldn't find the way in) and you can only view at the top level, no drill down to groups or users, rather useless in fact. I uninstalled it immediately. Deviantart needs to have a common app across all platforms, it needs to work the same on each.
A run through by malwarebytes quickly cleaned it up but this just goes to show how your defences need to be on guard all the time.
A second thing to dislike about DeviantArt is the DA app for metro - the Win8 desktop app. It is just a little bit crAp. You cannot log in (well I couldn't find the way in) and you can only view at the top level, no drill down to groups or users, rather useless in fact. I uninstalled it immediately. Deviantart needs to have a common app across all platforms, it needs to work the same on each.
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Deviantart surely is an awful place these days!
I just briefly tried to return to DA after an absence of a year or so from DA and I find it is just as bad as I feared. The Eclipse project really was that, bringing DeviantArt's usefulness to an end. A darkness, an ending, an eclipse to the brightness that once was. The site is SO slow. Editing is terribly painful, navigating feels as if you are walking with an anvil attached to your leg. I had been keeping a few of my old blogs updated but I feel it is time to dispense with DA altogether and create my own site where I am not weighed down with the crap that has been layered onto poor old DeviantArt. My poor Intel i7 and 64mbs line wasn't enough for DA, it is as slow as any site I have ever visited on the internet. Like meeting an old girlfriend who hasn't aged well, DA is looking and feeling old, dark and tired round the eyes after all that plastic surgery. Well, at least it is has spurred me onto better things. TTFN DA.
The Eclipse Finally Cometh - Time to say Goodbyeee
Goodnight everyone! Goodbye from me to you and Deviantart!
We'll be seeing you...
You'll be in good company...
RocketDock Enhanced Settings Screen Pt 2
This journal entry follows on from the RocketDock Enhanced Settings Screen Pt1 that you can find here: https://www.deviantart.com/yereverluvinuncleber/journal/RocketDock-Enhanced-Settings-Screen-Pt1-798134061
It summarises the project I have been working on for the last year, ie. a replacement for Rocketdock.
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Yes, I know it's mental.
Fig. 1 The first mock-up for my Mediaeval version (Right click to view full image, then you need to click on it again to see it full size and in full detail)
Note the above mock up it isn't 100% complete as some elements will need to be improved, resized, relocated or their allocated space increased,
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