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The team at link(GFXartist.com,www.gfxartist.com) have gone on strike, citing a lack of financial support from members and a need for new servers as justification for their actions.

Quoting GFXartist,

"That's why we have decided to go on strike for one day to make people realize that maintaining GFXartist costs us a lot of our personal money and time and that we are not able to continue without a serious attitude change towards non commercial community sites.

GFXartist is not "ours", it's a site shaped and formed by it's members and to continue we also need your help.
I'm asking your help to become a GFXartist Server Sponsor, For every 100 members that subscribe we will place a dedicated machine next to the main GFXartist server increasing the speed amazingly and best of all, you are directly helping to keep GFXartist alive.

If you become a server sponsor for US $ 2 Dollar per month you also will be able to upload your artworks to gfxartist directly without having to link your artworks."

While I realise today is April 1st, this matter does not seem to be any kind of joke.

GFXartist is one of the best sites in this community, with unique and refreshing delivery of the best digital art has to offer. Support this site as you've supported us, as it would be sad to see it go down.

Update: GFXartist have slightly revised their statement and are only 'striking' for one day. As I understand it, they have not changed their minds but are simply clearing up a misunderstanding with the original post.

To keep up with the increasing popularity of vector works here at deviantART, we have added a new section under Indy Art called 'Vector'. Vector art should be placed in this category, or if you wish to share your native vector files then submit it into the Resources - Vector section.

The resources category was released so that artists could share files that would assist others in the creation of their deviations, such as brushes, .FLA files and native vector files. Recently, many artists were upset when the Resources - Vector section was cleaned of all deviations that did not have a native vector file included. Instead the deviations contained images of vector files. It is likely that the deviations that were deleted now belong in the new Indy Art - Vector section, so if artists wish to resubmit their works into this section that'd be appreciated. deviantART apologises for any misunderstandings in relation to this, but hopefully everything is clear now!

Does anyone remember the days of connecting to bulletin board systems when the Internet hadn't reached its prominence? ANSI graphics made up of 16 colors were used to display blocky images, and from these bulletin board systems one of the first digital art communities formed. Well, the ANSI art scene still exists and you can reminisce the old days by telnetting to piranha.zapto.org.

Start off by downloading an ANSI-compatible telnet client. MTelnet is the preferred choice to call ansi boards, and can be downloaded at link(ozone.eesc.com/mtelb8.zip,ozone.eesc.com). Unzip and load up the software, hit F1 to modify the first entry then fill out the details - description as "piranha" and hostname as "piranha.zapto.org". Press escape to save, then enter to connect! Once you're in, visit Piranha's door games and venture into a game of LORD 1 (Legend of the Red Dragon). The entire game has been redesigned by some of the ANSI scene's best artists, so it's definitely worth a look.

The ANSI scene is undergoing a small revival of sorts, with groups like link(www.ice.org,iCE) pumping out some of the best ansis around and several other groups popping up. It is from these original ANSI and ASCII groups that art groups like link(www.breedart.org,breed) formed. If you're interested in checking out some more ANSI art then either visit piranha, link(www.acheron.org,acheron.org), or our very own link(bym.deviantart.com/gallery,bym's gallery) here at deviantART.