I've had my foot in the door for a little while, so I ought to introduce myself properly.
I joined DeviantArt back in 2012 on a whim, becoming entrenched one month later when ImageShack began its pivot to a paysite and I needed a file host for the couple hundred comics I'd made for a round-robin collaboration at CivFanatics. Originally intended strictly as an archive, it encouraged me to venture beyond a tight orbit around friends and colleagues into something approaching an artist at large. As dA's own management deteriorated over the following years, I kept my eyes peeled for a viable alternative host, but nothing I saw quite blended the professional curating tools with the open-air forum that had once made dA so iconic; I was on the front lines of Buzzly.art's collapse into the Internet equivalent of the Khmer Rouge, and InkBlot has unfortunately proven unsuitable for hosting a complete archive.
Side 7 was a lucky find courtesy of @EyeballEarth that goes to show that third's the charm: the UI is the slickest I've ever seen, and the way peer interaction is actively incentivized is absolutely ingenious—it's like @BadKarma watched every mistake made by other sites, and then did the exact opposite. 
In the short term, I'll be reuploading as much of my old gallery as I can before hitting the storage cap (with strategic breathers so I'm not completely swamping the front page :^) ); in the longer term, the multi-pronged assault of incompetent leadership online and IRL has galvanized a righteous anger with few release valves and a drive to see e-art done 'right': I don't have professional managerial experience, but I'll offer pro bono advice when and were I can.
