Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-24609882-20140318064016/@comment-32500188-20140407230726

(*... is very sad to learn all the downloaded journal skins serve no purpose after this day is over with, as well as will disappear when journals are edited post-dA Free Premium day.*)

I feel like I've wasted several hours of my life... I thought at the very least you'd be able to keep and still be able use the skins you installed and just not be able to download/install more of them after today, and had just started getting hyped about random journaling on dA just because of the ability to personalize my journal messages to fit my mood. I wasn't expecting the name change function to be available in the first place, and I use Ad-Block and No Script so I don't have to worry about ads flooding the pages. (...and no, not because I don't like supporting sites with ads, I just had too many run-ins with ads that had malware attached to them and no longer like taking chances with any of them.) So I wasn't nearly as disappointed as a lot of people about it up until now... this surely slapped some "this was just an overhyped ad scheme" on the event. Perhaps if they allowed this to happen for a week next time and opened a few more of the perks, it would feel more worth it for people who need more time to consider getting a premium account in the future, because at this point, everything else is pretty much useless to even try for just one day. (Google analytics and timed/scheduled uploading... what, draw a picture for today and set it up so it can be uploaded one hour later from the moment you finish it, then see how many people visit your page over the short period of time you have left? Yeah... that seems worth it.)

I had started trying my hand at an Iroha base, but it's nowhere near finished because I'm still working on trying to get the features somewhat accurate. (that, and I get sidetracked with the IA one I'm working on as well. Just can't figure out which bones to rig what to, so most of my stuff is still trapped in Blender until either I figure it out either in there or in PMX editor.)