DeviantArt has been absolutely tarnished beyond repair by the recent Eclipse overhaul to the point where it is virtually impossible to enjoy using now. What was once a smartly-designed and varied art and literature website and creative community has been transformed into a bleak, stripped-down, non-intuitive dumpster fire of atrocious design decisions. So many functions, features (including basic ones such as art categories) and options have been removed making it far more difficult to locate specific art, navigate the website and immerse oneself in content that one might enjoy. It's now also a visual eyesore, consisting of a miserable ultra-dark grey background, mundane sans serif fonts, over-sized thumbnails and cluttered search results. The overhaul was supposed to bring DeviantArt into the new 2020s decade, but it now looks and operates like a free template website from 2005. The entire website is a gigantic downgrade in every possible way. That's right, not one aspect of it has been improved. The new design far too frustrating to adapt to and is no longer worth the time of any artist, casual, student or professional.
