Beboots
Randall's Head Servant (300-799)
Now, if you'll excuse me, there's a plague in Equatorial Guinea that I have to attend.
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Post by Beboots on Jun 2, 2005 20:28:44 GMT -5
Well, I got myself all worked up for nothing. A few days ago, when I went to Deviantart, I got a message saying that *gasp* my subscription to DA was about to expire! Oh no! But I could always subcribe (for 30 something dollars of course) to a full year of deviantart! Well, I don't exactly have a credit card, and I seemed to remember something about a full year free of DA when I firsted signed up for it, so... I sorta pannicked. I double-checked to make sure that I had copies of all the stuff I'd already posted on my hard drive, copied all the URLs of all my favorites (yup, all 70 of them - took me a good half hour or so), copied down the names of the people I'd friended and who'd friended me... And today my subscription ran out. There was even a little countdown thing at the top of my DA page, right below the little point that states "is a deviant since Jun 7, 2004, 4:52 PM", and said that my subscription would expire at exactly 3:55 PM today. *nods* It's past that now, and that little countdown thing has dissapeared, taking absolutely nothing with it. Whew! *wipes forehead* Crisis averted! I'm so glad I don't have to spend a few hours re-subcribing and putting my account together again - only to have to do the same thing this time next year. I feel sorta silly right now, though. I guess if DA were prone to deleting users suddenly when their subscription ran out, it wouldn't be as popular a site as it is currently, would it? *tremulous smile*
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Post by pitbulllady on Jun 2, 2005 21:44:44 GMT -5
The Subscription is different from being a member. Membership is free, but you have to PAY(via credit card)to be a Subscriber. You supposedly must be a Subscriber in order to use the Search feature, but when I had MY "trial Subscription" I just kept getting messages stating that the Search feature was "temporarily out of order". So much for that, huh?
pitbulllady
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Beboots
Randall's Head Servant (300-799)
Now, if you'll excuse me, there's a plague in Equatorial Guinea that I have to attend.
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Post by Beboots on Jun 2, 2005 22:12:05 GMT -5
The Subscription is different from being a member. Membership is free, but you have to PAY(via credit card)to be a Subscriber. You supposedly must be a Subscriber in order to use the Search feature, but when I had MY "trial Subscription" I just kept getting messages stating that the Search feature was "temporarily out of order". So much for that, huh? It's out of order because it's been overloaded over and over again; we have thousands of users, and if they all try to search for pictures at the same time, it just slows down more and more 'till it just stops. They've disabled it until they can find a better way to do it.
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Post by lizardgirl on Jun 3, 2005 7:29:18 GMT -5
Woah, you must've been worried Beboots! I'm hoping to subscribe at some point, but is it worth it?
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I ♥ umbrellas
Randall's Skivvy (0-299)
the Umbrella of DOOM...its coming
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Post by I ♥ umbrellas on Jun 3, 2005 7:59:57 GMT -5
I personally cannot be bothered to pay for just a few extra features!
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Post by lizardgirl on Jun 3, 2005 8:00:53 GMT -5
I don't think it's too expensive, though.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jun 3, 2005 13:59:56 GMT -5
Speaking of Deviant Art and accounts.
Has anybody been to my gallery yet? Even though it's one pic?
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Beboots
Randall's Head Servant (300-799)
Now, if you'll excuse me, there's a plague in Equatorial Guinea that I have to attend.
Posts: 646
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Post by Beboots on Jun 3, 2005 15:57:30 GMT -5
Woah, you must've been worried Beboots! I'm hoping to subscribe at some point, but is it worth it? Yeah, I was pretty worried, but don't let that turn you off DA! It's an awesome site, that has nowhere near the same ammount of downtime other sites like Elfwood have. They've worked out most of the kinks in their system (excluding, of course, the ever-frustrating search engine - but you can browse pictures easily enough on people's favorites and their galleries, as well as the recently uploaded artworks). I wouldn't pay for it, though. Luckily, you don't have to; you can sign up for free, but you have to pay to use a few other (pretty unneccessary) features. You have a DA account Sean? Link me? Please?
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jun 3, 2005 16:05:29 GMT -5
Umm...I....can't get in... My account is virused....
Hmm....I know! Give me a sec...
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jun 3, 2005 16:08:38 GMT -5
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Post by lizardgirl on Jun 4, 2005 8:26:28 GMT -5
So it isn't worth paying, then? That's okay- I'll just keep my basic account, then. ;D
And Avis said that she would be on leave for a while because of personal matters, but she didn't say when she might be back, so who knows?
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jun 4, 2005 21:03:05 GMT -5
What has it been? 8 months or something....
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Post by lizardgirl on Jun 5, 2005 6:07:59 GMT -5
She'll come back when she's ready. ;D
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jun 5, 2005 11:34:37 GMT -5
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Post by lizardgirl on Jun 5, 2005 11:44:20 GMT -5
Or when she can. I don't think anyone is able to contact her.
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