Today I checked deviantART and noticed an interesting change. I looked around and noticed more areas of customization and functionality. It had a more organized and convenient feel, thus I felt to vote "I'm impressed" on the poll regarding the upgrade. Then I noticed that apparently 26% were not impressed.

So then I started looking through the comments to that poll, and some of them were just "i liek the ol layout better. change it back". Thus apparently a portion of those whom are within that 26% seem to have issues with letting go of the past. If people really think the new deviantART layout is more complicated, then it deeply worries me how the users themselves even know how to use their own internet browsers...

There's also this itch I have that's telling me that some of them are still using Internet Explorer 6 as well... (note: IE 6 is 7 years old, just upgrade to version 7, or perhaps version 8 which is coming soon. Or best of all: use Firefox, Safari, or Opera).

Also, yes, there may be a few bugs here and there, but those will obviously be fixed. It's not like they'll just leave it that way. This is the stage of conversion called 'conversion hell', which is the stage when all the bugs are found and when people stop griping about it simply being different (which occurs only 3% of the whole year).

I'm looking at the layout right now and I don't see how it's more difficult. A lot of it is just moved around. Also, the page for showing recent messages and deviations from people you watch has been changed around. This is a feature, not an issue. I'm assuming there's a way where you can just go into the settings and revert it back to the traditional way if you really can't handle something that's more convenient.

[EDIT] I've also noticed a little trend. Apparently a majority of those that are sh*tting a brick about it are kids 14 years old and younger.

[SECOND EDIT] Apparently there was one of these fools who was like 14 years old and whom was trying to start a rebellion regarding the new layout. Whereas they wanted the deviantART staff to completely drop all their progress and just revert to the old layout since they said the new one was too confusing for them. Thus they were basically going through and agreeing with every comment about someone disliking a simple detail about the layout and asking them to help them rebel against the new layout. HOWEVER, luckily an administrator came through and cleaned up the pointless mess and banned the individual.