been here 6 years, never subbed. i found no reason then, and i find no reason now to do it.

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Sega fanatic since 1990.

I basically did it to get rid of the ads... which drive me totally bonkers. In fact overly obtrusive ads is one reason I am seriously thinking about dumping my Elfwood account. Not only does the art approval methods employed by the moderators seem more than a bit capricious considering they have no true artistic standards to justify moderation of submissions in the first place, but the new ad format is completely annoying.

If Elfwood had any kind of minimal artistic skills requirement to justify the moderator approval of submissions I might be inclined to become a "patron" there since it's about the same as what dA charges and get rid of the ads there as well. Not meaning to sound like I'm full of myself, but paying for the "privilege" of submitting to some moderator's arbitrary judgment of whether my work qualifies to be displayed along side something that looks as if it were drawn by a hyperactive 3rd grader is simply bullshit, IMHO.

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EbonDragon Art: [link]
EbonDragon Productions on CafePress: [link]

I quit elfwood about as soon as I began it.

I've had this dev for i forget how many years and never have gotten a subscrip to it.

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Where am I going? And why am I in a handbasket?!

I use Firefox, and I installed an ad blocker add-on yesterday. I had heard about the ad blocker, but had been too lazy to install it. Holy wow! Does it ever work! There's no ads on dA anywhere! And I used to have trouble playing games on Newgrounds because the ads would slow down my computer like you wouldn't believe. I tried Newgrounds yesterday, and there were no ads and no problems playing.

Not to sound like one of those rabid Firefox advocates, but the difference is really quite amazing. It might make Elfwood more bearable - I don't know, as I don't have an account there.

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Dragon Artists of Deviant Art

Yeah, I use FF with the ad blocker as well. On Elfwood hides the ad which is nice, but the gallery is still smooshed over to the side of the page. Originally, they had the Google Ads in a fairly small box on the top of the page... and it was simple text. Now they take up 1/3 of the page, run down the right side, and are big, full color "billboards"



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EbonDragon Art: [link]
EbonDragon Productions on CafePress: [link]

I've basically been keeping my gallery there out of habit. I spend far more time here, or over on FA. It's probably way past time to shut that down, along with VCL. Haven't updated that one in months. dA has it's problems, sure, but I find it less annoying in a lot of ways than other online galleries I've tried.

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EbonDragon Art: [link]
EbonDragon Productions on CafePress: [link]

I tried to use the skin option, and even picked one and tried to attach it onto my site, but my site never changed. How do you get a chosen skin to stick? Obviously I'm doing something wrong ...

I do very much like the skin you have picked, though!

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"We eat gods for breakfast!" -- Egon Spengler, Ghostbuster

It only applies to the journal, not the whole gallery... or at least the one I'm using is that way.

When I was composing a new journal entry, there is a button at the bottom for Journal Skin. When I clicked on it there was a listing for the skin I had chosen earlier. I just clicked it once to select the skin I wanted and then clicked "Okay."

Maybe there was a problem with the skin you chose...? Did you look under the Help section to see if you missed something?

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EbonDragon Art: [link]
EbonDragon Productions on CafePress: [link]

The more people shove ads in my face, the less I feel like buying their product...

I've developed an ad-aversion sort of reaction. If I see a brightly colored box that seems to be trying too hard to get my attention, I actively look away from it. On occasion this has led me to completely miss things like login buttons because the site designer tried to make the location too obvious. LOL

I wonder how long it will take the advertising people to realise that the more they push ads in our faces, the less we pay attention to them? If advertising was rare, I would probably pay more attention to the few that I saw. But because they won't leave me alone, I install things like the ad blocker so that they don't have a chance to advertise to me at all.

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Dragon Artists of Deviant Art