User blog comment:Ensoka/So DeviantART has basically gone to the dogs/@comment-32500188-20150804235930

All I have to say... it would've helped them if they hadn't ignored the concerns of many users over the years, former and current, from free to premium and even beta-testers. Each and every, time they forced some sort of major change on dA that affected the overall atmosphere of the site that wasn't really "broken" to begin with, on top of constantly neglecting one of the most major issues until recently... and even then, it's a sort of half-handed approach of saying "this is what it is, this is what you probably should do if it happens to you, but we're just going to do this to let you know we're still not going to take measures to fix the problem on our end."

I mean, look at where that mind-set landed Google with concerns to their platforms, especially focusing on YouTube. The only way they'll start listening or actually caring about user input on both ends is if they actually fall hard and admit some of the things they did weren't exactly the best decisions they've made.

With this change, it seems like dA's downfall is almost innevitable at this point, especially since the "'til hell freezes over" members weren't expecting something like this to happen at all. I'm wondering if they're letting those folks in the middle of the 2 & 7-year subscriptions continue theirs until they run out. If not, that is REALLY shiesty business practice, and I wouldn't blame folks for breaking out the torches and pitchforks one bit on top of the nearly doubled subscription prices.