I was seventeen when I made this account, under a different username, in 2006. I am 32 now, in 2020... and still here after just about all my friends had left. I stuck around because there's something about dA that felt like home - like nostalgia. This place had seen me grow from a naive college student (read: obnoxious child) to a fully-fledged professional, internationally published fashion photographer... and I've even gained a few DD's along the way. --- During this time I've seen this site go through many different evolutions and yes, people had always been upset about some of them but it's never been something that you couldn't eventually grow into. But this. This just makes me sad. This just breaks my heart. It breaks my heart because nobody wanted this. Since it's been announced, there's been vehement opposition about this "upgrade" as far as I could see and it's extremely disheartening that the development team and Admin team just blatantly disregarded their subscribers: