Good luck. Prepare to say farewell to hours, if not days of lost productivity in your efforts to find a specific deviation. (If you can't successfully search for it and forgot the file's name.)

    However, on the other very infuriating hand, you can't just make hundreds of specific folders. Making a folder for specific themes of icons, brushes, tutorials, or paintings is just as unreasonable. Because it's a huge chore to find a specific folder among the countless other ones stretching your page - and lengthening scrolling time.

    Only after one night of starting my journey to discover and collect resources and customization downloads, my collections are dreadful. They are nearly impossible to navigate. 
I don't want to dread revisiting my collections, you understand Deviant art? We should enjoy it.
And you as a business - should consider it very important to allow using your website for art / resource collection simple and fun. Simple to revisit too, no matter how many more things a user added to their collections since then.
Understand that it is very important to you as a business to motivate visitors to prefer your site above all others for online collections. Put forth a little more focus in keeping art browsers loyally visiting and utilizing the site for collecting and inspiration seeking. It should be a high interest of yours to keep users on your site, verses 'download and ditch.'

     Please do consider this - an art website like this one here, is much more than just a platform for uploading work to show off, or to sell. No it's much more than that.
There is a huge chunk of your userbase that are here to share creative resources.
Last but not least... there is of course the sizeable group of art lovers on dA, that are here to simply favorite artwork and appreciate it because they do not draw themselves.
Art appreciators, who are most likely here with the sole purpose of building a collection to go back to over and over to admire - these folk are being left out. Collections have virtually no comparison of flashy features that other parts of Deviant art has.

    This is not an uncommon suggestion. This is not an unreasonable suggestion, this is not controversial, difficult, or useless for dA to consider and work on.
Art creators and art purchasers both alike, will find limitless usefulness in a more organized collection folder.

    I don't care if Deviant art makes Collection sub folders CORE only. I would totally understand and not be surprised at all if that ended up being the case. I just want to see you make it happen. 
In fact, it would make me consider buying back into CORE again. And would give art collectors a good reason to subscribe to CORE too. 

(Adding more features to :bademoticon:   +    Adding features that a wider, or different and new type of users could use   =     :bademoticon:  has more value,  and value to more users.
:bademoticon: having more value   +   value to new users   =    More   

You could even add more features to Collection personalization... like tags only the collector sees.
    The individual user could tag say, a F2U texture they like.... they can tag it as 'brown' , 'stone' , and 'realistic' if they wished to, to make it easier to find in their own favorites. Consider that many deviations have vague artist given tags, or even no tags at all. Searching for a specific known about deviation is a chore when you take into account just how many 'similar' resources are out there competing for the same tags, and many 'enthusiastic' young deviants are known to go flipping nuts with abusing irrelevant description tags - with the idea that it will rake in more potential views.
Being able to attach our own one sided tags for our own use would be mind blowingly useful and revolutional! This one sided tag feature will most likely only be available after the deviation is inside a Collection folder. Removing a favorite might remove it's tags.

Consider making layouts of the Collection folder more customizable, or more potential in general.
Get creative DeviantArt staff, I know you can do it. Listen to this.... optional layouts. Columns, rows, thumbnail sizes/variations, a folder searcher! Come on... this is so do-able.
Seriously… please consider that folder searcher. That would eliminate quite a few issues mentioned issues above, without needing to change much of the "website's bones" at all.

Allow a pinning feature, to pin specific folders for quick access. A shortcut like Windows File Explorer - if you will imagine for me.
   This right here is a fantastic addition to those who are worried about keeping their folders in alphabetical order above all else. Pinned folders allow them quick access to folders they are using more frequently without the need to scroll. So if you got dozens of folders from A- Z.... and you happen to be collecting and working with Wallpapers right now - you don't have to torture yourself with awkwardly long scrolling or dragging to reach 'W' for your wallpaper folder.

Other Ideas I came up of at the top of my head would be, perhaps adding the option to make specific folders private, or even sharable among selected friends.
Let me elaborate - The private folder option is pretty self explanatory. It's just a folder that's completely undiscoverable from all but the owner. Useful for folders that are still being worked on and look like a mess. But most importantly, for those who have favorites they would rather just keep secret. The artist of the deviation will still get a notification that their deviation was favorited, but maybe the person who favorited it remains anonymous. I haven't thought too far into that yet. It's up to the individual what's a better idea as far as notifications go for private folder favoriting.

    Now let's talk about shared folders. No... this is not like a Group. It's not a pseudo group either in the slightest. This is just a chosen folder that you can give permission to a selected friend, or a handful of friends, to add content to. You can choose rather the said shared folder is private to you and your friend's viewing only, or viewable to public like typical. These shared folders aren't that big of a deal, but they might prove useful to friends with shared tastes, share resources, or collaborate on artwork. Shared folders eliminate the need to copy and send links back and forth, or log into a chat source like Discord to share a picture. Some may raise a hand and to say 'Notes" already allow this in a way. While true, sort of... having a shared folder is easier for the benefit of having a big open space to look at all your past shared things. And you can casually toss additions into the folder without trigging a notification to other people every time you do so - letting share members discover new additions on their own, on their own time.


Eclipse is right around the corner. This is huge! One of the largest changes to DeviantArt ever. While the update is prioritizing appearance and aiming for minimalism, I'm hoping this update gives functionality plenty of attention too. Before Eclipse permanently rolls out, I officially ask DeviantArt to smooth out Collections some how. Surprise us. It could be subfolders, tags for individual favorites, layouts, or Collection folder searchability... I don't mind which ever one gets picked over the other.... all I ask, is for you to leap this site into something real fun and enjoyable to use and browse. Collecting has been rather the same since the beginning, and has gotten stale. 
Let us kick off the New Year , of the New DeviantArt , with a fast , organized , and PRODUCTIVE approach!

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<sub>((This is a copy of an official suggestion that has already been submitted to the DeviantArt Suggestions forum.))

((The forum has an average of less than ten visitors on a discussion, even less comments. Even lesser than that are any staff members. But other than that, the main reason I'm sharing a 'suggestion for DeviantArt' - to DeviantArt, is to inspire other users and spark conversation between them. With that said, I politely ask for readers to not comment below for me to, "Go post this to a feedback ticket" or "Submit your suggestion to 'blah' ". ))</sub>
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Thank you for reading. Feel free to share your own ideas or discuss mine. I encourage you to share this wherever appropriate, add onto it, or compose your own in your own journal. 
Most of all, have fun and express yourself!