A top designer was banned from drill. Now he is creating his own contestant.

Dribbble After a new attempt to pive a market and pursuit for mudification, dozens of designers have been banned from their platform permanently. It includes one of the most famous designers of the stage, Galab KuznetsovFounder of San Francisco -based Design Studio Milky,

Dribbble removed his account with it More than 210 million Follower because he shared his contact information with potential customers through the platform in violation of his new rules.

Kuznetsov commented In a post on X“I brought 100,000+ monthly users. 15 years work. 12,000+ shots. All were immediately removed, as a customer asked for my email. A warning. A warning. No appeal.”

Fed with changes in the company, which helps products, UX, web and other digital designers to display their portfolio and find new customers, Kuznetsov says that he is talking about launching a competitive with investors.

Shortly after his social media post, Dribble users expressed their shock and anger over the decision, credited Kuznetsov as one of his biggest inspirations and said that the stage would take such misguided steps.

Meanwhile, Dribble says that Kuznetsov was actually warned several times that he was violating the new rules and the email was the final notice.

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The issue is to be held on 17 March, 2025 with another recent policy change declared for the first time.

In an email shared in March with some 750,000 approved designers of Dribbles – which means that people who are authorized to communicate with others on the platform – the company said that it was now allowing designers to share their contact information with potential customers until their customer sent payment through his platform.

The company deployed this change as one, which is to protect the designers from non-devotion, as well as one that allows the drill to continue to maintain its business.

Announcement was also posted on social media and also Company blog,

However, Kuznetsov claims that non-payment is not a very common problem, and in fact, it is about updated drhibbles that are trying to make a big cut of the designers’ business.

Dribbble does not dispute him.

Prior to the change in policy, Dribble earned money in one of the two ways. Starting from September 2024, Dribble started pivying in a market that was connected to designers and customers. Designers can communicate independently on the platform and then either shared the cut in 3.5% revenue on customers that they had converted, or they could pay A supporter membership REV to release shares. In March, the company further tightened the rules, stating that anyone who finds customers on drill would need to cut their revenue to the platform.

“It was optional to use our transactions features, it was necessary for non-observers to use our transaction features, if they were on drable, to find customers,” Dribble CEO Kansin AnastaskisIn an interview with Techcrunch. “If a user is on drill to find inspiration or receive a response to his work, or to talk at the shop with his peers, none of it impresses them,” he said.

EXEC, who joined the company after working in the direct-to-conjumer Lander Lower, Video Marketplace Pond 5 (exiting Shuttersk), and the Freelance Marketplace Fivor was hired last April to pive into a marketplace. While the company is beneficial under the original company SmallIt is still a small 20-person team and does not depend on the enterprise to serve 7.5 to 10 million monthly unique visitors.

“Dribal was something that really dramatically withdraws our business during the day,” Kuznetsov told Techcrunch. Prior to the drill, there was no platform where designers could share their work with others, they say. This helped designers receive response that especially came from their peers and allowed new designers to learn from those at the top of the industry.

Kuznetsov is now part of the later group.

In Milkinside, Kuznetsov has worked with companies such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Scandinavian Airlines, United Airlines, Honda, Mitsubishi, Mercedes-Benz and other big companies in the Gulf region.

As a result, he did not realize that Dribbles took the risk of banning him not to follow new terms.

The uninterruptedness has essentially confirmed this.

He told Techcrunch that Kuznetsov received 83 tasks in March since new terms, and replied to 61. In each message, the site shows a warning that reminds users that the contact details should not be shared before the project payment. However, Kuznetsov shared his contact information in six messages, which would have displayed a strong warning at that time.

The company then on July 22 asked for a violation of its repeated terms service with a warning email, which informed them that it was risking permanent suspension.

Kuznetsov told us that he did not see this email initially, but Dribble says it was tracked that the email was opened three times from his suspension.

Kuznetsov says, “I am confident that Dribble – I was his goal to hurt me so that I could spread the (news) to give everyone a harsh lesson to everyone who tries (to break the rules),” Kuznetsov.

Anastasakis confirmed equally for techcrunch.

Anastasakis told us, “There is no really comprehensible method in which he did not realize that he was putting the permanent suspension of his accounts at risk.”

“I think it was eventually believed that we would not take action against a designer of his caliber,” he continued. “As a side note, I really feel that he has made us a big favor, as far as we take out the word about how seriously we take the conditions.”

For Kuznetsov, or any designer was banned for similar reasons, the only option to return into the drill is to join as an advertiser, which requires a minimum campaign budget of $ 1,500 per month for at least three months.

Does a new competitor emerge for drills?

Kuznetsov has decided to make his way, saying that it is hurt by the change of Dribal.

“It’s not going to copy the drable,” he says of his pending startup. Instead, it will be a resource for designers who will take advantage of AI.

While a lot has been done about AI model training at work of creatives without compensation, Kuznetsov believes that there is a use for technology in terms of inspiration, construction and design.

Kuznetsov said, “This is a big hole in the market right now … everyone is starting AI, but no one is really doing AI startups for designers.” “AI is something that can actually increase our ability to create the ability, and make it at a higher level.

Kuznetsov says that he expects a MVP (Minimum viable products) ready in three or four months.

However, he notes that the target is not “killing” the drill, even though investors offered him money to do so.

Kuznetsov says, “It’s not so. I am trying to do something good for the community because I am a designer. So I know how painful it is to be a designer in this world.”

“We really need to be smart how we invest our time – how we give our best and how our life gives other platforms. The diversification of that investment should be something that everyone should think about,” they say.