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A remarkable journal written by `sambees, one of our community's finest (and oldest :granny:) on the topic of GROUPS. Mainly focused on the crucial information that isn't included in those huge MAKEGROUPSNOW advertisements...

[http://budgie.deviantart.com/journal/30275507/]
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:icongondormitory:
i could say i'm surprised but i do not generally lie
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:icontsubasa-no-kami:
*Tsubasa-No-Kami Feb 13, 2010  Professional Digital Artist
hmm yeah. i wish they'd listen more to people than just make something crazy. there is still a lot of room for improvement!
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`Gwendolyn12 Feb 12, 2010  Professional Traditional Artist
Yeah,I read that journal.D:
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~JLGribble Feb 12, 2010  Student Traditional Artist
I watch ^budgie and had already read the journal; it was insightful, informative, and much appreciated. I know that, if I have the chance in the future, I'll think long and hard about converting another club into a group; already with the one I'm helping to run now we've encountered some of these problems and, even though I know I shouldn't be surprised, I'm certainly irritated at dA's lack of foresight in it's eager creation of new features, not just in their poor design but also that they obviously didn't care to properly explain the full ramifications of converting a club into a group. Shame shame.

But oh yeah, I forgot; the people who run dA aren't interested in art anymore, they're interested in money. Go figure. *is shot for snarkiness*
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^rydi1689 Feb 12, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Well I have to say that, while everything is true to some extent, I think dA will take notice of the community's feedback and develop new features, modify existing ones etc to please us. If you have a suggestion to improve groups leave a message in #devBUG =)

As for dA being interested in money, well hosting the site and creating and developing everything sitewide is expensive =) It's not free, people won't work their asses of creating this art community for free, it'd ruin them and the site. I do agree that the subscriptions for groups are too expensive but we also get MANY things for free when we join the site and it costs dA money as well, it's a balance between the sides.
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:iconminoru-kokubunji:
*sigh* A sad truth that I do not like to even think about.
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:iconviscuswalor:
And there I was making a group! Now I am thinking again! And my head hurts! :(
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