PLEASE give us the option to disable the "more from _______" window on the side of deviations. I do not need nor want people looking at stuff I did back in 2006 while they are viewing work I did three weeks ago.
This issue is serious, at least for me. Serious enough for me to consider taking my gallery down as this issue has been voiced many times and thus far has not been addressed at all.
(Or it has, and I haven't been made aware of it. In which case I'd look like
even more of a bumbling idiot.)
Thanks for your time.
-DC
P.S.: GO NATINALS!!!1
and it makes me want to obviate my older work too. :\
I don't want to delete half my gallery!
And then I looked at my own and did just that. :\
If you're not happy for people to see something the simplest solution is to delete it.
The general assumption of deviantart is (quite reasonably) that if you display something in your gallery you're happy for people to see it - the context is that it's a piece of work you rate highly enough for the public to see so the particular order isn't particularly important. You might even find a few people quite like your older work too.
And sometimes (speaking as a fan of the little random box) you'll find something earlier in an artists development that is a really fascinating insight into how they've changed.
Having folders and partitions in your gallery makes it easier for your fans to navigate it and to find the kind of stuff they are looking for.
Those charming little boxes present a random sample of your work to tempt them into looking at your gallery - a show of variety. A sample of poentially everything your gallery has to offer.
There are indeed folks who love your older stuff but there are also folks who wouldn't have gone looking in the darkened recesses of your gallery to find it - so there it is. For them to find.
And in fairness do you really think a potential employer wouldn't thorourly examine your gallery anyway? It's like I said - if you don't want people to look at it then just take it down.