ParadiseFever - Hobbyist, Digital Artist | DeviantArt (original) (raw)

How to stop deviantArt Crashing/Lagging (2021)

Aug 4, 2021

UPDATE: FIX HAS BEEN FOUND THAT NEGATES THE NEED TO CONSTANTLY RE-BLOCK DA-CHAT-WORKER WHEN IT UPDATES!!! Please read through the step-by-step and block the new line of code as necessary! Okay, so I haven't seen a proper full step-by-step for this anywhere but I HAVE seen lots of info titbits and fellow dA users complaining about the immense amount of overheating that deviantArt enacts on their poor computers. So I am throwing this journal together quickly to help anyone else prevent dA from breaking their computers, bc the staff sure don't seem concerned with making their site functional for you! Please note before we start that this fix will disable the 'chat' feature of the website (it is the source of the problem, so it's one or the other here unfortunately) TL;DR VERSION FOR ANYONE WHO ALREADY KNOWS HOW TO USE uBLOCK ORIGIN: Block this script - https://static.parastorage.com/services/da-chat-worker/\*.\*.\*/app.bundle.min.js --- STEP 1: Download uBlock Origin. It's an extension