For those of you who watch me on DeviantArt, I'm seriously considering retiring. To be honest, I've been considering leaving for a while now. Why? Because of Eclipse. From when Eclipse first started on DA, I gave it a try, but I could not access any artwork in my gallery - nor browse any in my faves - that was more than 6 months old; I got ZERO notifications for my groups and I never realized until I received a note on DA (Eclipse) that someone was trying to submit deviations for a few weeks; and furthermore, my tablet for some reason can't seem to access DA under the Eclipse settings. I just had to switch back to the old site in order to have full access to my page because Eclipse just wasn't working out for me. Every now and then I keep getting automatically switched back over to Eclipse and I have to manually reset it to the old site.
I heard at first that older members on DA (like myself) had more of a choice to maintain the old site, but last week, DA had announced that they are officially retiring the old side and switching over to Eclipse for good now.
You know, I've seen DA make such moves that got a lot of criticism, one of the biggest before this was the More Like This feature which was supposed to feature similar artwork to the deviations we posted but in some ways the artwork featured had from very little to nothing in common to those I posted; or because at the time a few of my friends and I were new to DA, we were working hard on trying to improve our skills and get noticed out there, yet More Like This was featuring much more detailed work and/or deviations from more skilled higher profile artists which a few of my friends and I really got upset over because it seemed like it was diverting people's attention to bigger and more well known artists and giving little chance for newer artists like ourselves to get any attention. Eventually the More Like This feature got a lot of criticism and was taken down. But with Eclipse, I don't feel like the DA staff is letting us have much say in it at all.
A slight change in the layout, I can live with; going from Premium Membership to Core Membership, I can live with; but Eclipse, I don't want it, and I never did, it didn't work out for me before and if we can't have a say in it, then what's the point in staying? DA is not like some corporation which we work for, last I checked it's supposed to be a service in the social media industry. They're supposed to work for us, not vice versa, and I'm not going to stay on a site which the staff will make these kind of decisions for me.



*My message to DA*
You know, from the beginning you have been bragging about how DA Eclipse is SO much better than the old site, but - and not to get all political here - that just sounds exactly like some dick-weed currently in the White House bragging about how his policies are so much better than his predecessor. Why don't you just let US be the judge of that? We are the ones who signed up and yes, we created an account on YOUR site, but that being said, don't you think we should have a say in the settings we prefer to use? I never asked for Eclipse, I never really wanted Eclipse, and every now and then I've been getting automatically switched back to Eclipse and I have to manually keep switching it back over. Eclipse didn't really work out for me before, and now you're taking away my say in it, if we don't get to have a say in how we want things on DA then there's no point in staying. I refuse to remain on a site which does not let us have a say in things. Paws down!