Glossary - danopia/deviantart-difi GitHub Wiki

Here is a list of terms and acronyms used in the DeviantArt ecosystem.

Terms

• Deviation – refers to DeviantArt submissions, such as arts and journals
• Deviant – refers to the users on the DeviantArt network
• Favourites – The equivalent of adding a submission to the "likes" folder
• Watch – The equivalent of "follow" or "subscribing" to a user
• Badges – are little icons that appear on the top right corner of a profile page. Badges are either awarded by the staff, bought for a price (e.g. real money or points) or acquired for free for doing certain tasks. Badges are non-transferable.
• Gallection – Gallery Collections, i.e. the folders that you can put art in (e.g. Gallery, Favourites, etc)
• Llama'ing – The action of giving the Llama badges to a user
• Grusers – Group or users, refer to the profile pages
• Modules – refer to the profile widgets
• Points – The internal virtual currency of DeviantArt that worths 1 cent a piece and costs 1.25 cents to purchase
• Notes – The private message system of DeviantArt that kind of acts like emails
• Journals – are the blog entries that users can submit
• Message Center i.e. Notifications – The activity feedback on deviations and your account (including new submissions from watched users, comments, replies, mentions, polls, etc)
• Correspondence – Events related to interactions between a group and its members (e.g. content submission, request to join, invitations, etc)
• Core Membership (formerly known as the Premium Membership, i.e. PMs) – is the paid membership status that can be purchased (either using PayPal or Points) that allow the user to unlock exclusive (and often essential) functionality in the website which is unavailable to the regular users
• Beta Tester – Core Members with access to new, unreleased features
• Feedback – the acts of generating activity on a resource (such as Deviations, Profile pages, etc) e.g. leaving comments, adding to watch or favourites, mentions, etc

Features

• Muro – is a HTML5-canvas enabled visual art editor that allows users to draw in the browser
• Critiques – are a Core Member feature that allows users to leave in-depth observations of your work in addition to a ratings system. They are designed to be a thorough evaluation of a Deviation on a number of different qualities. A critique allows the artist to receive specific meaningful comments about their work.
• Sta.sh – is the upload and publishing platform that DeviantArt provides. It is used to upload "drafts" privately, before publishing them as on the DeviantArt network. Sta.sh provides with 2GBs of storage for regular users, and 10GBs for Core members.

Technology

• DiFi – deviantART interactive fragmented interface
  The RPC/AJAX service that dA use to get data, populate pages and send commands.
• VMS – Versioned Module System
  System to structure code in a versioned manner that helps dA release bits of the site in versions.
• CNC – Call'N'Cache
  System to cache requests to 'referentially transparent' functions and modules. This lets bits of code make their data dependencies explicit and not have to worry about the potential performance penalties of such a notation.
• DRE – Developers Runtime Environment
  Debugger system for deviantART developers.
• DDT – Devious Debugging Tool
  DDT is a way to add debugging to Javascript code that can be monitored at demand by the developer. It acts as a proxy for the standard browser console. The library is open-source.
• ILE – In-line editor
  Also known as the Deviation submission page

Chat

• dAmn – deviantART messaging network
  i.e. DeviantArt chat system