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I think I'm the only person around who has seen an increase in sales since the announcement.  But that's really not saying much, because last month was my 2nd worst month in an entire year.

K - Had an EL so this month is going to be a good one for me. 

Site still down though and since most of my sales come from Europe, my guess is I sont get my daily sale today.  Hopefully it doesn't scare of buyers long term.

Why didn't they upgrade during the weekend!

Interesting idea on the titles. I may try that, but the 'artsy' titles is how I remember which photo is which.

Sales at Fotolia way down this month - even more than the other sites which are all down just a bit.

I like how Fotolia tells you to go to their blog for more info, yet there is no new info on the blog.

Fotolia is still down after one day

Seriously, this downtime during a week s*cks monkeyballs. Poor poor business planning...

It's probably in everyone's best intrest to get this V2 going ASAP.  Do you think the buyers like the three minute page loads and errors when searching for photos.  I don't think waiting longer was an option. 

Just call it a hunch, but something tells me we still have a long long wait in front of us 

Has anyone noticed that throughout the whole process the little green light to the right has remained on indicating that Fotolia is online?

I think Leaf has a secret portal in and isn't telling anyone about it. 

The problem with Fotolia is lack of credibility, which is something of their own doing; they have persisted in deliberately misleading customers and contributors with their '3.5 million' stuff (and probably also with their 'we sell 10,000 pictures a day').

Once a business or an individual gets used to misleading (lying) they'll dig a big hole for themselves because professional people simply aren't that gullible.

Like others here I suspect that this transfer to V2 will take days and they probably won't ne up and running until next week.  But that won't stop them 'misleading' by putting out reassuring announcements that they are 'almost there'.

Once someone gets used to being dishonest it is very difficult to change them.

Having said all of that, I do believe that FT has potential, and they do appear to be able to sell my pictures, so that's encouraging.

We'll see if I'm right though - an announcement that 'we are almost there' even though they probably know it will take all weekend.

And let's see what happens after they've deleted all those pictures from the past; will they change the 3.5 million number?  I hope so; I hope they'll see sense.  But somehow I doubt it.

I suspect that FT is short of cash; probably underfunded; probably one of those internet bubble situations where the CEO is paying himself $500,000 a year while the business and customers starve.

Perhaps I am being unfair.  I hope so, but we'll see.

I agree Madelaide,

I hope it goes well, FT is a good all round site in terms of acceptance and sales. There's no harm in waiting!

Fotolia V2 has already come up a few times, I even managed to login successfully. Unfortunately it was very slow which means they are still working out all the bugs. The good news is that it only said 1.6million pictures, meaning they definitely pruned their database. I bet there are a few stressed out techies working on it as we speak.

FTP isn't working yet. Not sure if that's temp or permanent. There is a new flash uploader I'm trying now. Slow, but I'm sure the site isn't 100% yet. It is a bandwidth hog, though. Hope ftp comes back

I can get in but the Fotolia is even slower than before.  I hope this is getting better soon, because this will cost customers.