~ray-strider

An old friend of mine recently got an account at ~Orouchimaru and finally uploaded something. Go welcome the poor bastard.

Sigh. Technological travails: my MP3 player (a birthday gift) is most likely irrecoverably lost, and my camera hasn't been functioning properly for the last couple of weeks. I can't afford to replace both in the same year.

Concurrently I'm dying several unmentionable mental/emotional/academic deaths, along with some of my compadres:



Hang in there, peeps, I can't do this without you.

So don't expect anything new or remotely cool on here for a long while.

…and I haven't written or drawn anything worthwhile in the past eighteen months.

More bugs grievances to be found:

I wish they'd kept the description for the Daily Deviations, or at least mark said deviations somehow - a little like the 'featured' stars on Elfwood, but less obvious.

Journal archive links are dead.

It is no longer possible to add scrap entries to favourites. FIXED 12/8/06

Randomise Favourites still appears under 'Edit Profile', but it has been seemingly disabled for the time being. FIXED 11/8/06

Policy Violation button has disappeared. FIXED 11/8/06.

Category sequence is no longer displayed when viewing deviations.

Deviation full-views are no longer tabulated (probably since the coding's changed and it no longer has its own window), but it's still displayed.

For users that have the Mature Content Filter enabled, the override button ('Display this Deviation Anyway') no longer works.

'Devious Desktop' display seems to be broken.

'Remove all messages' in the Message Centre no longer seems to work across topics, as noted by ~AkinoAme.

Left-hand menu no longer rolls back in full-view mode on older deviations.

Deviations moved to 'Scraps' remain in the Gallery.

Journal entries of subscribed users seem not to fit on the page with shoutbox, calendar, poll, etc.; it takes a bit of scrolling down past those boxes (and the massive blank space next to them) to get to the actual text.

Deviation views counts are no longer accurate, as page hits from their creators are now counted even when said deviant is logged in.

I'll add more as I remember/find them.

And my devWATCH box has been empty of late - is it because there are no notifications to be sent, or there are and I haven't been receiving them, ergo the devWATCH system is temporarily broken? I'm pretty sure =KalbaxEcnailla has posted at least one new picture, but I've not received any notice of it, nor of any other new deviation.
100 of them came back on 17 August.

Mood: appalled

From the looks of it, !snapesnogger was both hacked and banned. Not sure which happened first.

To quote Sir Nicholas Fury from 1602: 'What in the name of a thousand blistering Hells has been happening here?'

I may not have seen that much on the Internet, but this is definitely the worst incident I've encountered thus far.

I'm still adjusting to a lot of the changes to the dA layout. Like I mentioned to =KalbaxEcnailla, I tend to initially decry change before realising that I actually like it.

Well. It's a little inconvenient to have to update my journal via my profile page instead of from anywhere on the site, and the changes to the profile pages themselves will take a bit more getting used to. So far I think I prefer the old profile pages (as well as the smaller print of v4, or whatever the old version was called).

But the smoother navigation - especially when it comes to favouriting deviations - now that's a welcome change.