Comment by neom | Hacker News Reader

Comment by neom | Hacker News Reader

Enough time has passed, I guess I can speak my mind a bit. I'm sorry, but in my opinion, The downfall of DeviantART was when Angelo fucked with Scott and Eric. Scott and Eric should have run it with Chris and Heidi. Kicking a co-founder out unceremoniously, and especially the co-founder who was responsible for the customers, that was really ill guided. I have nothing against Angelo personally, I'd still consider him a friend, but yeah, I truly believe dA would have been amazing today if that hadn't happened, everything got really fucked up after that imo.

Building DigitalOcean was fun, but building dA was 1000 times more fun, best times of my life for sure, very very grateful.

(I worked on gallery, help, irc, dAmn and a bunch of other stuff, 2001-2008 my emoji still exists :neom:)

I remember that. I was part of the group vocal about how messed up it was. I was at the first summit and it was a blast, took home a couple of those posters. So sad to see what’s happened to it.

What was so interesting to work on at dA? Multiple people in this thread have mentioned how fun it was. I'm wondering what was so fun about it. Seems like a pretty simple application from the outside, but maybe there were some fun technical challenges?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13719127 :D

Hey, just picking this comment, to say thank you for DeviantArt. It was a major part of my teenage pre-teen and early teen years. It got me into a bit of art. While I am not an artist, I loved the community. I also at the time, being young and not caring about things like plagiarism, copied a large chunk of Scott's website design as my own for my own page, which I used for a long time. And yet, Scott never mentioned anything, even though I think he was the one that approved my invite to `neopages` where I moved it to.

Anyways, even though dA of the past is gone, it was definitely an important part to many people, so thanks again.

I tried looking up :neom: but couldn't find any hit on images, got a link to share, I'm curious now :D

People think it's the f'ing monkey emoji tho: https://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/n/neom.gif :| :| :| :| :| :| :| :| :| :|

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