Gaaaah... I hate deviantart :P
Not because of its largeness... but its slowness ^^ It takes forever to do ANYTHING, like you guys were saying. And it's not like you can ever get noticed at all amongst all those faceless hordes of people :P
Also, I don't think deviantart is easy enough to get around on personally.
This place seems very nice though

And people actually care a bit that you do in fact exist ^^
As for other forums... I've been on hundreds of them... quite literally :P I'm a complete forum junky. But I've cut down to maybe 6 that I remain active on. Just can't keep up with that much stuff... plus many of them were smaller forums that ended up petering out and dying :P