%o#'@ incompetent DA coders

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I use Opera as my choice of browser. In my opinion, it's superior to both Firefox and Internet Explorer. Opera is innovative, superquick, expansive and clever. Every cool feature other browsers have, Opera had first. In short, I have found my browser and I love it, much like millions of other users of this stroke of genius.

The only sad thing is that some websites have a hard time updating their pages to be compatible with Opera. Usually, it's crappy, low-end websites with bad coding and lousy updating. But sometimes...there's exceptions. Deviant Art's latest addition of full page advertisements screaming in your face before getting to the page you want to go to (god, I hate that "feature") is obviously coded so badly, it stays up, no matter how much you click the "let me past this fucking ad crap!" link. It won't go away, and you can't browse your own pages. In other words, it makes DA completely unusable if you're using the Opera browser.

This ad system is used on countless other websites, without any trace of problem. This is the only site I've visited that has this problem, so therefore it's the incompetence of the DA coders that is to blame. One could almost think it's a "clever" trick to force free members into buying an ad-free subscription.

Oh, and they're working *so* hard on it. Not.

Reply to my question to DA Support about this, dated May 9th 2006. Almost a whole fucking month, and it's obvious they knew about it before I sent my notice!

"Unfortunately this is a known issue with Opera at this time, which we;'re working as quickly as possible to resolve.

Maureen Winter
Help Desk Manager
deviantART, inc.
www.deviantART.com"


Well, *Maureen*...for your information...it's not Opera that's the problem. It's the sloppy coding of this website. Perhaps you should kick some coder butt and get them to update their incompetent skills...or maybe buy a new one off eBay. I hear they're cheap.

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ommony's avatar
Complaining about a free service is pretty bad form. Subscribe, then complain. ;) Besides, as a subscriber, I didn't even *know* about the problem with the ads and so forth -- because, I don't ever see them. Not to sound like an advertisement for deviantart but hey, it's a great site with a lot of wonderful people who do their best to make it as good as it can be. Bugs happen -- c'est la vie. Take it in stride and be fair to these people. :) :hug: