[Updated] DeviantArt down, not working or images not loading? You're not alone

New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….

Original story (published on March 3, 2023) follows:

DeviantArt is one of the largest art-focused online platforms. It allows artists to publish multimedia content either in the form of images (photos/drawings) or video for the enjoyment of the entire community.

That said, currently the DeviantArt servers seem to be in the middle of a partial outage as the images are broken or not loading for multiple users.

Recent reports indicate that the DeviantArt platform is partially down or not working correctly, since many images are just not loading.

Currently, the website is accessible, so it’s not completely down. However, users will find multiple ‘broken images’ all over the website.

Anyone else finding broken images everywhere?

I just got on the site and like, half the images on there are broken or not loading. Is this a server issue or what?
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Anyone else finding broken images everywhere?

I just got on the site and like, half the images on there are broken or not loading. Is this a server issue or what?
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The situation is significantly affecting the user experience. After all, images are a fundamental part of the platform.

Potential workarounds like using a VPN are not helping to solve the problem:

According to a redditor, the root of the problem is the DeviantArt image compression software. This tool could be experiencing issues, which directly affects the images for all users.

To all those experiencing image loading issues on DeviantArt

It’s related to the image compression software. I know this for sure because everything else works fine. I found this out from one of the site-based Discord servers. They’ll be back online shortly, we are in the link if ever convenient though.
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There is still no official word on this issue from the DeviantArt team. We will be monitoring the situation to update this story as the situation develops.

11:11 am (IST): According to the official status page of DeviantArt, the recent issue where images were not loading has now been resolved.

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