About a month ago, deviantART, Inc. let go founder, Scott Jarkoff (Jark) which came as a shock to the deviantART community.  This has created quite a rift in their community and in the skinning community in general.

This week, the CEO of deviantART, Inc. made a statement that, I think, gives hope that an amicable settlement will be found between Jark and the company that runs deviantART.com. 

The statement includes a great deal of recognition of Jark's contributions to the formation of deviantART and provides him with a new access class called "Founder". Whether the other outstanding issues (such as stock and other financially related items) can be settled remains to be seen. 

For those of you not familiar with deviantART, it is, in many respects, WinCustomize's sibbling. We have been friends with their staff and their community since the very beginning and so this whole thing has been quite upsetting to those of us in really live and breath this stuff.  Here's hoping they can resolve the other issues without too much legal issues.