~Wolfmanfur

Preface

Hello everyone, it's Wolfmanfur.

So you might be asking the following questions that I'm gonna answer immediately:

Q: Why do you rant about Deviantart?
A: Answering that question would spoil the rant.

Q: What's the thing you hate the most about Deviantart?
A: The trolls in it.

Q: How are you?
A: I'm fine.

Now, I have never wrote any rant before, so if needed you can give me some feedback, any type of constructive criticism is encouraged.
Anyway, let's start the rant shall we?

Administration on Deviantart

Let's be honest, the administration of Deviantart is both ineffective and unfair.

Why ineffective? When a troll joins Deviantart, they often stays there for a while before getting banned, sometimes they never get banned. Often people get their artworks stolen and in some circumstances stolen content will never be taken down.

Why unfair? On Deviantart there are many art thieves as I said earlier, but sometimes they'll steal your artworks and DMCA take down your original work and it happens so frequently that it's to the point where I think "Do the staff even care about doing their job properly or are they just playing a guessing game (Is it stolen or nah?)." It is also possible to mass report artworks and artists as such innocent people often get their artworks marked as mature content or their entire account banned for no reason, just because they got mass reported by assholes/trolls.

Trolls on Deviantart

There are too many trolls on Deviantart, those trolls also get banned, but come back or just never get banned.
There are 5 types of notable trolls:
1. Edgy Trolls: Your average troll, they insult you for no reason, they upload swastikas or other unfunny memes like 9/11 and are here for the sole purpose of harassing. Most of the trolls in this category gets banned within a month.
2. "Cringy" trolls: Probably the worst type of troll, especially by the fact that they NEVER GET BANNED. They could also be considered satire trolls because they act as if they had mental issues and they'll often post obscene or otherwise "cringeworthy" drawings to get attention, furthermore most of them are just there to make fun of furries/bronies/Sonic fans/FNAF fans/Undertale fans with as I said purposely bad artworks, they also act up against you and can get you banned if you say anything, this include giving out a feedback.
3: Raiders: These trolls are often there to mass report you or massively attack one single artist to the point where they have to temporary disable their account just to get rid of them. The worst about that category is that they often attack when they are properly prepared to do so which makes them rather dangerous.
4: Spammers: Like the raiders, but less prepared and they often rely on alt accounts.
5: Art stealing trolls: Like the art thieves, they steal artworks, but they don't do it because they are bad at drawing, but rather to get attention, sometimes to DMCA attack the artist they targeted. They also get banned rather quickly luckily.

Harassment inside Deviantart

When you are a beginner and don't know very well how to draw or if you draw fetish art (because you like it) you are very likely to end up being harassed by many people, including trolls and normal people who aren't trolls.
I have seen a lot of times people saying "You don't like it, then don't look at it", but has that ever worked? Humans are assholes most of the time and more we get forward, more we can see it. If they don't like something they will keep talking about it until said something they don't like gets deleted.

But it's yet not the worst things about this website and its intolerant userbase.

Harassment outside of Deviantart

You should know whenever you upload an artwork on Deviantart that the general public doesn't like, it is very likely to end up on websites such as encyclopedia dramatica or Youtube, if it ends on Youtube it will be in something called a "cringe compilation".
By pure curiosity I typed "deviantart cringe compilation" and I swear that most of the cringe compilation either had badly drawn drawings or fetish artworks and honestly I really don't understand what's the deal with beginner artists or fetish artists, as I said earlier everybody just cannot get over the fact that they could simply ignore the artists they don't like.
On Furaffinity you can block guests from viewing your gallery, so if really they want to make a cringe compilation and include your artworks they'll have to make a Furaffinity account and it's not likely happen if especially they got banned earlier.
I also heard about artists who got harassed outside of DA because of what they've posted there. An artist who uses both Deviantart and Twitter received death threats on Twitter (unfortunately cannot remember the name of the artist, but I'm willing to add more artists if you have had followed an artists that got a similar issue). What I've said can also be avoided if the artist uses Furaffinity and locks their account so guests cannot view it.

Security and Privacy

It's outstanding to see how terrible the security of Deviantart is. It even got its database leaked once like for Yahoo.
The security on Deviantart is so bad that many people lost their accounts. I don't have any example because I don't remember well, there was a Pokemon artist that was into feet that got its account hacked and used to spam Deviantart.
I also looked up "hacked accounts on deviantart" just to add more proof to my article that it's a real problem and I found multiple websites talking about it, notably Deviantart itself on their #660 FAQ.
Ialso found this: https://forum.deviantart.com/devart.....neral/1805985/
It really doesn't seem that uncommon, but it still happens to often.
The problem is that to get into someone's account all you need is a password bruteforce tool and the username of the victim (Deviantart should only use the email address to log in) and it's really just a standalone log in form, there's not even a recaptcha which would be very effective against robots and bruteforce passwords crackers.
It also puts your privacy at risks because if you get hacked, you'll get your email address and your ip address exposed.

Some nitpicky problems about the site (honestly skip that part)

1. It looks ugly, compare Deviantart to Twitter. How long has it been since the visuals of the site have ever been updated? Other art websites do a better job with the visuals so why does the administrators of Deviantart cannot even polish their website after years?
2. The mobile app of Deviantart is awful, better not have made one at all.

My tip

Hopefully, I convinced you that it was not good either for you or anyone else to use Deviantart, my tip is that you back up all your drawings on Furaffinity and delete everything on your gallery on Deviantart and it's better if you delete your entire gallery before deactivating your account because I probably forgot to cite it, but Deviantart is unable to do a basic task like removing everything related to you from the database if you happen to close your account (I swear, it is sad).

You can also share this journal to all the artists you like who use Deviantart and insist that they use Furaffinity (Especially if they are beginners or they are into fetishes).
Deviantart was maybe good back in 2005, but it's not anymore and honestly I'm worried for all the people who use it since DA has many security holes and especially an administration that doesn't work.
Furaffinity is not perfect, but it's a lot better than Deviantart and it has arguably the most tolerant userbase on any website ever.

You can also invite non-furries to use Furaffinity since it is open to everyone. There are actually many non-furries that use Furaffinity just to enjoy the company of furries like whitecougar (https://www.furaffinity.net/user/whitecougar/) who draws primarily humans.