Random deviations are journals
Silly deviantart, when I click www.deviantart.com/random/devi… I get journal entries half the time
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Whoa, look who still lives.
It's been years since I've seen you post anything. How's life? (feel free to respond somewhere besides the complaint forums, and here's hoping you still recognize me with a different username).
It's been years since I've seen you post anything. How's life? (feel free to respond somewhere besides the complaint forums, and here's hoping you still recognize me with a different username).
Shadow Tails? I think that used to be your username, sorry if you didn't want to see those words!
YES that was it, 1414. No chance I'd forget about you, we chatted too much to be forgotten in just a couple of years. Well, probably half a decade. I certainly would not have recognized you by your current art, your years of training and hard work have improved your art so much that it's a complete transformation. Your profile says graduate, does that mean you went through with it and passed with flying colours?
Life has been all right, tough at times, fun at others. XD you're right, the complaints forum is perhaps not the best place to talk. If you want to, you can send a message some place else
YES that was it, 1414. No chance I'd forget about you, we chatted too much to be forgotten in just a couple of years. Well, probably half a decade. I certainly would not have recognized you by your current art, your years of training and hard work have improved your art so much that it's a complete transformation. Your profile says graduate, does that mean you went through with it and passed with flying colours?
Life has been all right
, tough at times, fun at others. XD you're right, the complaints forum is perhaps not the best place to talk. If you want to, you can send a message some place else
I thought my deviation stats were screwed up some years ago until I found out the site added them as deviations. At least that solved the confusion at the time...
You have like 400 journal entries, right?
That sure sounds like a huge difference in your number of deviations, upon the time that Deviantart changed this! Certainly something that leads to confusion
The byproduct of the conversion of journals to deviations indeed was that they were counted as such, and that my beloved random button leads to journals
That sure sounds like a huge difference in your number of deviations, upon the time that Deviantart changed this! Certainly something that leads to confusion
The byproduct of the conversion of journals to deviations indeed was that they were counted as such, and that my beloved random button leads to journals
Last time I checked. 
Well its the random button.
It's not just a random button, it's a random deviation button
Hell would break lose if it was really a random button. It could do anything!
Hell would break lose if it was really a random button. It could do anything!
Good ^^! , now click it approximately 20 times (which should give you 20 randomly chosen deviations), and you might see a couple of journal entries in those 20 clicks
I don't see how it would be hard to make it so journals go into one special category, then make anything with that flag exempt from being picked by the random button.
you're right!! spot on!!
I think the staff are just kind of lazy, to be honest.
not sure why they implemented journal entries into the same internal category as art
It might have been some sort of weird technical limitation, or a solution to an issue they were having.. but yeah, you're correct, it sounds kind of lazy
It might have been some sort of weird technical limitation, or a solution to an issue they were having.. but yeah, you're correct, it sounds kind of lazy
As other people said, people wanted to be able to favorite journals and that's how they handled it.
It sounds like a half-assed solution to an otherwise simple problem.
Instead of -adding- the ability to favourite a journal, they moved the entire journal part of the website into the art category (which can be favourited)
If that doesn't sound half-assed, then I don't know what is
Instead of -adding- the ability to favourite a journal, they moved the entire journal part of the website into the art category (which can be favourited)
If that doesn't sound half-assed, then I don't know what is
True, seems like it would have been easier to add a separate favorites section for journals.
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OMG YOU TOO??!! It's more like 9/10 times for me. And they're usually just one or two sentences from 2005.
Yeah, I agree with you. Lots of journals pop up, lots of really old journals that are no longer relevant to anyone
As much as I respect people's long-forgotten journal entries, I cannot see the as art and I cannot appreciate their presence in my hunt for random deviations to comment on
As much as I respect people's long-forgotten journal entries, I cannot see the as art and I cannot appreciate their presence in my hunt for random deviations to comment on
Ignore them then.
I open 20 tabs of random deviations. ctrl+tab to go to the first, oh it's a journal, ctrl+w to close it. NEXT is also a journal, ctrl+w, next is a shitty snapshot of someone's cat, next is another journal . Jeez I need to open 20 tabs to make have 1 or 2 artwork that are worth commenting on
I remember from the past I'd open 20 tabs and comment on 5 of them, because there were no journals in them and far fewer random snapshots
. Jeez I need to open 20 tabs to make have 1 or 2 artwork that are worth commenting onI remember from the past I'd open 20 tabs and comment on 5 of them, because there were no journals in them and far fewer random snapshots
I got artist works the first 3 times.
Lucky shot
Maybe 
I hate but like how you can fav journals, but it pisses me off when butt licker fan boys fav every single journal I upload.