I've been on dA now for about 6 years now, but I've decided at this point that the website is no longer right for me.
It's hard to upload stuff it seems to take more effort now than I'm willing to provide, especially on mobile, the layout of the gallery is hard to navigate, and the community has really gone down hill. I've had quite a few friends leave and then come back after months because of these same reasons.
In addition, I've stopped caring about how many favourites each artwork gets, llama badges, watches .etc and I've started to focus more on emotional expression and quality of each piece. After a while, the expressive art work I was producing also felt wrong for the audience I've built up on deviantArt - aka there were more nude, sexual, and depressing pieces as I've grown up - so I stopped uploading about two years ago.
I also started doing photography, writing, reviews, journals - and felt so spread across different websites and different accounts that it became too much of a hassle to maintain them and keep them up to date.
So, while I'm not going to shut down my deviant art, I'm probably not going to update it anymore (unless this art website starts sucking more than dA or dA gets a decent copyright competitor), instead you can find all my stuff at:
www.charlotteellastreeter.com/I hope you enjoy it, I've only just started it up so I'm still doing some fixes to its layout and structure so it works better on PC atm, but there you have it.
Thanks
Charlotte Streeter.