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Dribel Following a new effort to phase a market and chase cash, dozens of designers permanently banned its platform from its platform. These include one of the well -known designers on the platform, Glybo, Founder of San Francisco -based design studio MilchinsideThe
Dribble deleted his account More than 210 million Followers are because he violates his new rules and shared his contact information with potential clients through the platform.
Comment In a post at X“I have come up with 100,000+ monthly user. 15 years of work. 12,000+ shots. All instantly removed, because a client wanted my email. A warning. No application.”
Believed from company changes, which helps to display their portfolios to products, UX, web and other digital designers and look for new clients, Kusumetsov says he is talking to investors about launching a contestant.
Shortly after his social media post, dribel users expressed their grief and anger about the decision, credited Kusumetsov as one of their largest inspirations and mourned that the platform would take such a misleading step.
Meanwhile, dribble said that Kuznetsov was actually warned multiple times that he was breaking the new rules and the email was final notice.
Pivot of dribble in a market
The issue has to work with more recent policies, it has been announced on March 17, 2025.
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In March, about 50,700 approved designers of dribble are shared with an email – meaning that the company is authorized to contact others on the platform – the company says that their clients are not allowing their contacts to share their contact information with potential clients after paying their platform.
The company has identified this change as the meaning of protecting the designers from paying, as well as a one that allows dribble to maintain its business.
The announcement was posted at social media and the Agency blogThe
However, Kujanetsov claims that not paying is not a very common problem and in fact, this update is about trying to get a greater cut of dribble designers to the business.
Dribol does not argue that.
Prior to changing the policy, dribbles make money in two ways. Beginning in September 2024, dribble started pivoting in a marketplace that connects designers and clients. Designers can communicate freely on the platform and then they can share 3.5% earnings on converted clients, or they may pay for it A Pro subscription To skip the rev -shares. In March, the company said the rules tightened that any person looking for the dribble clients would need to cut the platform their revenue.
“It was Al Chhik to use our transaction features that it was necessary to use our transactions features for non-notifications, if they were dribbles, to look for clients,” Dribel CEO Constantine AnastasakisIn an interview with TechCrunch. He also added, “If a user is dribble to find inspiration or to respond to their work or shopping with their peers, none of them affect them,” he adds.
Execution, who directly joined the NDDD Lower, Video Marketplace Pond 5 (came out of shutterstock), joined the organization and the Freelancer Marketplace Fever was appointed to Pivot Dribal in a marketplace last April. Although the company is profitable under the company’s company SmallIt is still not dependent on the back of the initiative to serve a small 20-person team and 7.5 to 10 million unique visitors.
“Dribol is a thing that really accelerated our business dramatically,” Kuznetsov told TechCrunch. Before dribble, there was no platform where designers could share their work, he said. It helped the designers to get a response that came in particular from their peers and allow new designers to learn from the top of the industry.
Kuznatesv is now part of the next group.
In Milkinside, Kuzonetsov worked with Apple, Google, Amazon, Scandinavian Airlines, United Airlines, Honda, Mitsubishi, Mercedes-Benz and other large companies in the Gulf.
As a result, he probably did not feel that dribel would risk to ban him to comply with new terms.
Anastasakis basically confirmed that it was true.
He told TechCrunch that Kusunetsov had received six job inquiries and responded to EACH1 since the launch of the new terms in March. In each message the site is a warning that the users remind that the contact details should not be shared before the project is paid. However, Kujantesv shared his contact information in six messages, which could show more powerful alerts at that time.
The company then followed a warning email on repeatedly violating its terms on July 22, which he informed that he was at risk of permanent suspension.
Kuszetsov informed us that he did not see the email initially, but dribble said it tracked that the email was opened three times before its suspension.
“I believe that dribble – hit me up to be their goal so I could spread it [news] So they can give harsh lessons to each of those who try [to break the rules]”Kusunetsov says.
Dibble CEO Anastasakis confirmed TechCrunch as much.
Anastasakis told us, “There is really no imaginable way by which he did not understand what he was doing, at risk of permanent suspension of his accounts,” Anastasakis told us.
“I think that in the end he believed that we would not take action against any designer of his Calliber,” he said more. “As a side note, I actually think that we have made us a great favor to express this word about how seriously we take the conditions.”
The only option to return to the dribble is to join as an advertiser, for which Kuszetsov, or any designer was banned for a similar reason, which requires a minimum of $ 1,500 per month for at least three months.
The new contestant of the dribble comes up?
Kuzonetv has decided to forge his own path, saying he was injured in the dribble change.
“It’s not going to be the copyright of the dribble,” he said about his pending initiative. Instead, it will be a resource for designers that will earn AIO.
Although there has been a lot of reaction to the training of AI models about the work of creators without compensation, Kujanetsv believes that there is use for technology for inspiration, creation and design.
“It’s a big hole in the market right now … everyone is doing AI startups, but no one really is doing AI startups for designers,” Kuszetsov noted. “AI is a thing that can truly increase our ability to create and make it a high level of quality it will not only help us earn and raise more money, but will help create something that we never thought that it was not possible to create without setting a specific skill.”
Kuzetsov says that he is expecting a MVP (Minimum durable product) prepared in three or four months.
However, he noted that the goal was not to “kill” the dribble, though investors offered him money to do it.
“It’s not like that i
He added, “How do we invest in our time – we need to be smart on how we will give us the best and give us our lives on other platforms, so that the diversity of this investment should be something that everyone should think about,” he adds.