I was recently the honored recipient of a Daily Deviation for a GreaseMonkey script which I created specifically for the deviantART site ("DeviantART - Random Love"). The script adds the "Random Deviant" and "Random Deviation" buttons to the main bar on all dA pages, and is has recieved notable attention through being awarded a DD ( Comments: 267 Favourites: 190 Total: 7,364 ) and encouraging words from a number of members of the community.

There have been a number of other members of the deviantART community who have created similar scripts to add, replace or supplement features or behaviours of the deviantART site (these resources are catalogued by =Mozilla), but alot of these features are browser-specific because the site manipulations are performed locally, on the user's computer, and as such are dependant on extensions, etc.)

What I am suggesting is that some of the more popular of these "hacks" be considered for official implementation and incorporation into the deviantART site. Consider them to be a distributed development and beta project:

1. We, community members, see a development opportunity in the site,
2. We build a temporary patch to implement the feature or behaviour which we think would benefit the user experience.
3. We distribute the patch to other community members who then evaluate the improvement and either support it or discard it.
4. If enough people support the improvement, then the code is translated from the patch into the website architecture, where it becomes available (either through a user-defined option toggle, or globally) to all users.

You have a great collection of community minded people here, many with the technical experience, background and passion to try and make these changes a reality for all. All I am suggesting is that it would be great if this site recognised these efforts to make dA a more user-friendly place and absorbed some of these changes into the native code of the site itself.

(I am sure that the review and voting system would need to be nailed down at some stage. This is just an expression of interest and concept to try and garner some community support.)

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