Author Topic: IS mess up yet again. (Read 15803 times)

lisafx · « **Reply #25 on:** December 13, 2010, 18:48 »

I can't remember ever reading a thread at Istock before that contained so many comments from people without canisters (strictly buyers)!

cathyslife · « **Reply #26 on:** December 13, 2010, 18:56 »

F5!

I knew that was ludicrous. I guess I should go read the thread. I started to read the announcement thread by the big kahuna that the search was live, saw three or four wooyay posts and promptly came over here.

edit: read the thread. how discouraging.

ShadySue · « **Reply #27 on:** December 13, 2010, 19:14 »

There's a word or phrase which slips my mind for hiding bad news behind good or neutral news, or a scandal or somesuch.
iStock have managed to reverse this, by muffling the apparent good news of introducing editorial images (and, by the way, the iStockys results) with the unfortunately mishandled 'faceted search' introduction.
Maybe they should have a Contest to invent a name for this phenomenon.

lisafx · « **Reply #28 on:** December 13, 2010, 19:21 »

LOL! Surely there must already be some German word for this? What a great language - they have words for everything! (Schadenfreude springs to mind as an example, but doesn't fit this situation)

Good news - the search must be working better. Sales seem to be sputtering back to life.

cathyslife · « **Reply #29 on:** December 13, 2010, 19:25 »

Quote from: lisafx on December 13, 2010, 19:21

LOL! Surely there must already be some German word for this? What a great language - they have words for everything! (Schadenfreude springs to mind as an example, but doesn't fit this situation)

Good news - the search must be working better. Sales seem to be sputtering back to life.

How can we trust the numbers? (rhetorical question only)

ShadySue · « **Reply #30 on:** December 13, 2010, 19:26 »

Quote from: lisafx on December 13, 2010, 19:21

Good news - the search must be working better. Sales seem to be sputtering back to life.

Yes, I had a couple in the past ten minutes.

ShadySue · « **Reply #31 on:** December 13, 2010, 19:32 »

Quote from: cclapper on December 13, 2010, 19:25

Quote from: lisafx on December 13, 2010, 19:21
LOL! Surely there must already be some German word for this? What a great language - they have words for everything! (Schadenfreude springs to mind as an example, but doesn't fit this situation)

Good news - the search must be working better. Sales seem to be sputtering back to life.

How can we trust the numbers? (rhetorical question only)

I see it's a rhetorical question, but if you've been following the Missing EL Bonus and the now-locked (unresolved) Contributers Underpaid Twice threads on iStock, you might well wonder.

bittersweet · « **Reply #32 on:** December 13, 2010, 19:40 »

Quote from: ShadySue on December 13, 2010, 19:14

There's a word or phrase which slips my mind for hiding bad news behind good or neutral news, or a scandal or somesuch.
iStock have managed to reverse this, by muffling the apparent good news of introducing editorial images (and, by the way, the iStockys results) with the unfortunately mishandled 'faceted search' introduction.
Maybe they should have a Contest to invent a name for this phenomenon.

I believe the phrase you are searching for might be "wag the dog".

cathyslife · « **Reply #33 on:** December 13, 2010, 19:41 »

Quote from: whatalife on December 13, 2010, 19:40

I believe the phrase you are searching for might be "wag the dog".

Perfect phrase.

lisafx · « **Reply #34 on:** December 13, 2010, 19:44 »

Quote from: cclapper on December 13, 2010, 19:41

Quote from: whatalife on December 13, 2010, 19:40
I believe the phrase you are searching for might be "wag the dog".

Perfect phrase.

Yes indeed. Well done Whatalife

sharpshot · « **Reply #35 on:** December 14, 2010, 06:16 »

Wow, I only sold 3 there yesterday, the same as I sold on Sunday. I wonder how much this latest fiasco has cost them?

vlad_the_imp · « **Reply #36 on:** December 14, 2010, 06:27 »

Without knowing how many you'd normally sell its difficult to draw a conclusion, but I must say I had a very good Monday, sales-wise, although quite a few people have reported bad sales yesterday.

BaldricksTrousers · « **Reply #37 on:** December 14, 2010, 09:41 »

Quote from: cclapper on December 13, 2010, 19:41

Quote from: whatalife on December 13, 2010, 19:40
I believe the phrase you are searching for might be "wag the dog".

Perfect phrase.

Well, not quite, because the most important thing is the search. I can't think of an expression for hiding a success behind a disaster, probably because no rational organisation would ever do that. Perhaps it should be called being istocked.

traveler1116 · « **Reply #38 on:** December 14, 2010, 10:38 »

Quote from: vlad_the_imp on December 14, 2010, 06:27

Without knowing how many you'd normally sell its difficult to draw a conclusion, but I must say I had a very good Monday, sales-wise, although quite a few people have reported bad sales yesterday.

Last four mondays 22 sales a day pretty close to the same each day, this monday 12.

lisafx · « **Reply #39 on:** December 14, 2010, 11:11 »

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on December 14, 2010, 09:41

I can't think of an expression for hiding a success behind a disaster, probably because no rational organisation would ever do that. Perhaps it should be called being istocked.

Good one. Maybe it will catch on.

sharpshot · « **Reply #40 on:** December 14, 2010, 12:43 »

Quote from: vlad_the_imp on December 14, 2010, 06:27

Without knowing how many you'd normally sell its difficult to draw a conclusion, but I must say I had a very good Monday, sales-wise, although quite a few people have reported bad sales yesterday.

Strange but I now have 6 downloads for Monday, I was sure it was 3 earlier. My stats page hasn't been updated, I was counting them in the "my uploads" list. Last Monday was 16 and that's not great for me.

skvoor · « **Reply #41 on:** December 15, 2010, 10:26 »

[irony]This is really good search engine[/irony].

Every search which starts with "3d" returns: File Not Available

I tried 3d cloud, 3d car, 3d man..

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #42 on:** December 15, 2010, 10:53 »

The search engine is stripping numbers out of tags, and other weird stuff. Like 3d tries to pull up file #3.

skvoor · « **Reply #43 on:** December 15, 2010, 10:56 »

Quote from: sjlocke on December 15, 2010, 10:53

The search engine is stripping numbers out of tags, and other weird stuff. Like 3d tries to pull up file #3.

This happens only if 3d is first word.
car 3d - is ok.

malamus · « **Reply #44 on:** December 15, 2010, 11:17 »

The company I work for posted this to Istock:

We can appreciate a lot of work goes into the backend (eh hum!), however, This development should not lead to the dissatisfaction of the end users .

As contributors, you may not be aware that as a business foremost we care not for time wasting, broken searches, reading threads on how to use a site, which should be intuitive in the first instance, site update/excuses and the like.

We care only for our own product and the best possible way to promote our products. We value our customers and do not ask our customers to fix our problems.

As a customer we expect a to receive a reliable service/product. The courtesy we have shown by mentioning "bugs" should be gratefully received and not be "allowed" to be met with abuse.

For the record and the last time:
the required search "safari" returns the required results. Each filter process we go through:
Organise by downloads,
Display 200 images
display photos only
display portrait photos only
etc...

Each of these changes reverts the progress of filtering back to 30 images all vetta/agency making today a cockup!

OSX 10.6.5 Safari 5.0.3

It was met with abuse. We were told we were in the wrong and the thread was locked. A little digging reveals we wern't the only one with problems (we thought it was the new machines we brought as iStock claimed its self not guilty)

Ill make this my grazzing grond from now on, any way I can mach user names her with the good folk at istock (mine is a bit obvious as is jsnover and sjlockie)

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #45 on:** December 15, 2010, 11:23 »

lisafx has the same name, but a good number of people here are anonymous because some sites - notably FT - have closed accounts on the basis of things they didn't like said here (yes, an off site forum). It's really unfortunate, but understandable in the circumstances.

You may find you start to recognize people by their postings, however

malamus · « **Reply #46 on:** December 15, 2010, 11:27 »

For real?

what a joke. thats the only reason I'm here , to talk freely, we're all like little children in a dictatorship being ordered not to talk badly.

MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL

pancaketom · « **Reply #47 on:** December 15, 2010, 11:33 »

Quote from: jsnover on December 15, 2010, 11:23

lisafx has the same name, but a good number of people here are anonymous because some sites - notably FT - have closed accounts on the basis of things they didn't like said here (yes, an off site forum). It's really unfortunate, but understandable in the circumstances.

You may find you start to recognize people by their postings, however

I would like to say I find it unfortunate that people have to be anonymous, but it is understandable considering what some sites have done. It is in no way understandable that the sites would punish people in the way they have for what those people have said elsewhere (although it is still unfortunate).

--=Tom

vlad_the_imp · « **Reply #48 on:** December 15, 2010, 11:37 »

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MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL

If it's so bad why not give up exclusivity and joinn all the other sites out there? Everyone here is always saying how much better than IS they are.

malamus · « **Reply #49 on:** December 15, 2010, 11:46 »

Quote from: vlad_the_imp on December 15, 2010, 11:37

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MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL

If it's so bad why not give up exclusivity and joinn all the other sites out there? Everyone here is always saying how much better than IS they are.

earnings, ease of upload.

are you saying that because my earnings are good I have to put up with crap?

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