Dribbble - Reviews and experiences

this platform no longer works well for me as a designer. I used to rely on it for quick portfolio checks and to send a tidy link to potential clients. Now those basic things are hamstrung. The hard limits — 10 MB for images and 20 MB for videos — mean I either compress work heavily or split it into pieces. Both make the project read wrong. You can’t really showcase a polished case study the way you can on Behance. Worse, they removed the easy linking and contact options that let clients verify you or view higher-res versions elsewhere. They’ve shifted to a marketplace-style setup where direct contact is blocked until money changes hands. Fine, if the platform actually supported that model. But it doesn’t. Want to put your email on your profile? Pay for a subscription. That’s basically the bare minimum for a portfolio site, so asking for money to restore it feels off. In daily life I use this stuff to show concepts to clients during meetings, to drop into proposals, to keep a record of finished work. For small GIFs or thumbnails it still does the job. For anything that needs nuance or polish, it falls short. I’m not raging, but I am disappointed and I’ve started moving parts of my portfolio elsewhere.