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Started by Peter, April 14, 2008, 20:20

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Peter

What happend to images order in our portfolios? Sort by relevance, and order is totaly different.....


DanP68

What are you seeing Chode?  Does it look like the search engine is different, or did they just change the options?

CofkoCof

Before reordering didn't work for me. I clicked "Downloads" but the images didn't sort acording to the number of downloads.

stokfoto

yes something is wrong with it.it only sorts images with relevance none of the other parameters work for me.(ie downloads descending  or  creation date)
and in the new order it seems that my exclusive images show up first considering many of them my early submissions I am not really happy with this now.I hope it will go back to normal.

vphoto

most important for me that i had no sales since yesterday. What about you ?

stokfoto

I didn't notice a certain impact on sales yet but images I sold  today were among my earlier submissions as well so it has to be something to do with it.

madelaide

I did one search (not my portfolio).  Except for the "infinite collection" images, they get sorted correctly using "downloads" or "views".

Now, if I got to "My Portfolio" - "See my portfolio online", and then I try to sort by anything, the resort window says "No files found".  :-\

Quote from: vphoto on April 14, 2008, 22:10
most important for me that i had no sales since yesterday. What about you ?

A very slow month everywhere for me, and FT isn't different.  The good side is that larger sizes are not rare.

Regards,
Adelaide

hatman12

Yes, Fotolia now has a 'proper' relevance sort.  Before this, the relevance sort was simply newest upload.

I did a few searches just now and the results seemed satisfactory.

Looks like more progress is being made at Fotolia.  Now if they could just change the Christmas images from the home page.....

stokfoto

it seems to me that with the change there  exclusive images favored more  in relevance order.I hope I am wrong.

vonkara

My portfolio seem to be sorted by the less popular old ... Thanks for saying I will probably disable them to let more correct pics to show up a little ???

hatman12

The eagle eyed amongst will have noticed a little addition next to the 'total images' shown in one's profile - it now has in brackets (% of exclusive images), which suggests that Fotolia is about to place some additional importance on exclusive stuff.

stokfoto

also I notice older images show  up first, at least that is the case within my portfolio,I might remove some of images too if things stay the same.

stokfoto

it seems to be back to normal now

Karl Bolf

Regarding search engine, did u notice that the sort by number of views is now gone (you can only sort by price, sales, relevance, date). Did I dream or was there also "Views" before ?

In a way, I find it fair. It used to boost pictures that were already on FT for a very long time.

MAS

Hii,
Mine seem to be sorted by best sellers now
not the most recent.. :)
:) I love the sun

vonkara

Yes it seem back to normal... fiouu

stokfoto

They seem  to be fiddling with it again.in my portfolio mainly older images appear first. or is it just me?

Peter

yep, me 2. again. not happy.  ???


btw, thre is no "sort by views" any more. for now.

jsnover

I wouldn't have noticed unless I'd seen this thread - portfolio sort by "relevance" is a raves from the grave. I have to go to page 7 to get even one image from this year.

I wouldn't mind if there were a mix of old and new, and it isn't just the best sellers either (they're nohwere to be seen in the first chunk of pages). It's hard to see what possible "great idea" was behind this arrangement.

stokfoto

#19
Quote from: jsnover on April 28, 2008, 18:54
It's hard to see what possible "great idea" was behind this arrangement.

I think they might want give  a bit more exposure to less seen files by changing the order from time to time.last time when they  did  that I complained about it but that day turned out to be one  my best days there but today  I haven't   even  had a single sale.so I am not sure if doing this really is a good  idea.

vonkara

LOL- I don't think there's an idea behind this. The FT search seem to fluctuate accordingly to the different bugs they have.

Peter

This happend before. this is a bug. you should all report it to support, sooner they will react.

vonkara

I just contacted support. But at the same time it don't take Einstein to discover that when doing a search for traffic lights there's only 13 (traffic lights) showing in the first 100 files. If I was a designer and was searching for a set of traffic lights and only find pictures of cars in the night streets "hmm".

What these keywords have to do in the more relevent for that types of files?

hatman12

Fotolia is a bit like Jaws.....

... you just never know when its safe to go back in the water.......

Peter

#24
Lol, their suport is very funny I guess, I wrote a message:

QuoteSomething happend today - when enter my (or anybody elses) portfolio, by relevance, images are sorted badly, no more best images at front, what happend?

and I knew they reply somrthing like this:

QuoteWe are not sure we understand your request. Please describe in more detail how can we assist you.


LOL! It is like they even do not know anything about this. Thats why I told you to write them a mesage, not only me.