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« Reply #125 on: January 19, 2014, 12:10 »
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Today's email said they're launching but that they still haven't fixed the problem reading descriptions from IPTC

Why?

I may be off base, but there seems to be something wrong that functionality  this basic hasn't been fixed after such a long time of "working on it". And that they're launching anyway

Once they have this working, I'll upload to give the site a try


« Reply #126 on: January 19, 2014, 13:54 »
+4

I also received an email from them and noticed that they didn't hide the email addresses they where sending to. Really very unprofessional... Now we all have a collection of email addresses anyone can spam to :-(
 

« Reply #127 on: January 19, 2014, 16:45 »
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I also received an email from them and noticed that they didn't hide the email addresses they where sending to. Really very unprofessional... Now we all have a collection of email addresses anyone can spam to :-(
Protection of personal data just went for a walk...
 :o  :o
Whoow! This is a some (huge) minus  :o ... can't believe... :|
« Last Edit: January 19, 2014, 16:48 by Ariene »

« Reply #128 on: January 19, 2014, 21:14 »
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It's  been a while now since we have heard something new from you. And to be honest, I'm quite a bit excited - and really looking forward for you going live. So, just out of curiosity: how are things working out Down Under?

Cheers,
R

Hey everyone! We have been caught up with the developers which has been a bit of a bottle neck which is why we were a bit quite. Thanks ruewi we are excited too!

Rinderart great to have you on board! Your art-work is incredible, it wasn't traditionally what we were going for initially but we decided to bring it forward and take that sort of work now. And thanks for your support, privileged to have someone of your experience on board.

Those changes to the terms and conditions discussed earlier are now live.

We also have to sincerely apologise regarding the email. All others we have done so far have always been protected. It's been a long, late weekend working on some last few things and I guess we just got sloppy.  Not an excuse but it definitely was not intentional and we will take extra care to make sure it never happens again. Please don't spam anyone :(.

Regarding the IPTC, everything now gets read except for the description. Our developers hit a bit of a roadblock with that and it's probably going to involve a lot of code revamping in the uploading. We will get it fixed but decided to go live as is because an important aspect (the title) is being read. Delaying any longer is not viable and will lose us some opportunities in the market.

Its been a long road with ups and downs but its great to have your support!

Ranjeev

« Reply #129 on: January 19, 2014, 21:27 »
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Hey everyone! We have been caught up with the developers which has been a bit of a bottle neck which is why we were a bit quite. Thanks ruewi we are excited too!

Rinderart great to have you on board! Your art-work is incredible, it wasn't traditionally what we were going for initially but we decided to bring it forward and take that sort of work now. And thanks for your support, privileged to have someone of your experience on board.

Those changes to the terms and conditions discussed earlier are now live.

We also have to sincerely apologise regarding the email. All others we have done so far have always been protected. It's been a long, late weekend working on some last few things and I guess we just got sloppy.  Not an excuse but it definitely was not intentional and we will take extra care to make sure it never happens again. Please don't spam anyone :(.

Regarding the IPTC, everything now gets read except for the description. Our developers hit a bit of a roadblock with that and it's probably going to involve a lot of code revamping in the uploading. We will get it fixed but decided to go live as is because an important aspect (the title) is being read. Delaying any longer is not viable and will lose us some opportunities in the market.

Its been a long road with ups and downs but its great to have your support!

Ranjeev

I just tried a couple uploads and none o f the IPTC is being read.

« Reply #130 on: January 19, 2014, 22:25 »
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Hey mate! Did you leave the photos up or have you deleted them? All the photos I can see that were uploaded today have the data on them. I don't think it's populating in that first editor box that appears, but once you save, it should be there. If not let me know. Or feel free to shoot an email to [email protected] so we know which account to look at.

Ranjeev


Hey everyone! We have been caught up with the developers which has been a bit of a bottle neck which is why we were a bit quite. Thanks ruewi we are excited too!

Rinderart great to have you on board! Your art-work is incredible, it wasn't traditionally what we were going for initially but we decided to bring it forward and take that sort of work now. And thanks for your support, privileged to have someone of your experience on board.

Those changes to the terms and conditions discussed earlier are now live.

We also have to sincerely apologise regarding the email. All others we have done so far have always been protected. It's been a long, late weekend working on some last few things and I guess we just got sloppy.  Not an excuse but it definitely was not intentional and we will take extra care to make sure it never happens again. Please don't spam anyone :(.

Regarding the IPTC, everything now gets read except for the description. Our developers hit a bit of a roadblock with that and it's probably going to involve a lot of code revamping in the uploading. We will get it fixed but decided to go live as is because an important aspect (the title) is being read. Delaying any longer is not viable and will lose us some opportunities in the market.

Its been a long road with ups and downs but its great to have your support!

Ranjeev

I just tried a couple uploads and none o f the IPTC is being read.

« Reply #131 on: January 19, 2014, 22:41 »
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Hey mate! Did you leave the photos up or have you deleted them? All the photos I can see that were uploaded today have the data on them. I don't think it's populating in that first editor box that appears, but once you save, it should be there. If not let me know. Or feel free to shoot an email to [email protected] so we know which account to look at.

Ranjeev

Yes I now see that if I save the file the Data is there.
Thanks

Rinderart

« Reply #132 on: January 20, 2014, 01:35 »
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Hey mate! Did you leave the photos up or have you deleted them? All the photos I can see that were uploaded today have the data on them. I don't think it's populating in that first editor box that appears, but once you save, it should be there. If not let me know. Or feel free to shoot an email to [email protected] so we know which account to look at.

Ranjeev


Hey everyone! We have been caught up with the developers which has been a bit of a bottle neck which is why we were a bit quite. Thanks ruewi we are excited too!

Rinderart great to have you on board! Your art-work is incredible, it wasn't traditionally what we were going for initially but we decided to bring it forward and take that sort of work now. And thanks for your support, privileged to have someone of your experience on board.

Those changes to the terms and conditions discussed earlier are now live.

We also have to sincerely apologise regarding the email. All others we have done so far have always been protected. It's been a long, late weekend working on some last few things and I guess we just got sloppy.  Not an excuse but it definitely was not intentional and we will take extra care to make sure it never happens again. Please don't spam anyone :(.

Regarding the IPTC, everything now gets read except for the description. Our developers hit a bit of a roadblock with that and it's probably going to involve a lot of code revamping in the uploading. We will get it fixed but decided to go live as is because an important aspect (the title) is being read. Delaying any longer is not viable and will lose us some opportunities in the market.

Its been a long road with ups and downs but its great to have your support!

Ranjeev

I just tried a couple uploads and none o f the IPTC is being read.

ALWAYS and I Mean "ALWAYS" use the K.I.S.S. Principle.

Carl

  • Carl Stewart, CS Productions
« Reply #133 on: January 21, 2014, 07:14 »
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I like the site so far, but uploading is still a bit cumbersome.  For instance, to assign a model release to a batch of photos with the same model, you have to upload the release for each individual photo.  I think I'll wait to upload again until I can upload a release once and assign it to a batch of photos.  Hopefully by then the system will be reading all of the IPTC data and uploading won't take so much valuable time.

Rinderart

« Reply #134 on: January 21, 2014, 16:40 »
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I like the site so far, but uploading is still a bit cumbersome.  For instance, to assign a model release to a batch of photos with the same model, you have to upload the release for each individual photo.  I think I'll wait to upload again until I can upload a release once and assign it to a batch of photos.  Hopefully by then the system will be reading all of the IPTC data and uploading won't take so much valuable time.

Really? ewwww. Not good. they want my 831 paintings. Im sorry theres just no way Im gonna do the same release to 831 Images individually . I just can't justify that time. DARN.Thanks for the info carl.
« Last Edit: January 21, 2014, 16:43 by Rinderart »

« Reply #135 on: February 07, 2014, 19:50 »
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They sent out some progress e-mail this week saying that uploads were available again and I went to the site to look around. I had thought I'd wait until the reading of IPTC was fixed to upload, and apparently descriptions still aren't read.

At any rate, I noticed that URLs just have numbers for the images. I'm not knowledgeable about SEO, but in the process of building my own site, plus remembering things that the agency sites have done in the last few years to change their URLs, I've come across lots of recommendations to use descriptive terms, not numerical codes.

http://moz.com/learn/seo/url

Another thing I noticed - other than how few images are on the site at the moment - is that on an image page there is mention of Albums. See here for example, where it says the artist has 11 Albums

https://stockbo.com/635

The Albums: 11 phrase isn't clickable and I can't see anything on the page that links to these 11 Albums. At the bottom of the page there is a link to Galleries, but these are site wide, apparently, not artist based. Have Albums gone away but are still listed?

Then I see on the above page that All Media for that artist is 72 items but if I click on the View All Media button, I see a total of 60 items. Where are the other 12 and why are the counts different? It isn't just this artist; a number that I looked at had mismatches.

One last observation is that there are some artists who have listed a website but on an image page there is no link, just the text

https://stockbo.com/2229

It's really annoying to have to cut and paste a URL - if you don't want to link, then don't show it.





Rinderart

« Reply #136 on: February 08, 2014, 12:48 »
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I sent 887 Original Paintings, about 50 left. I used the on site java uploader. It was good for the first 500 then timed out,dropping some images. Then got Buggy. I like they got back to me right away. My descriptions showed up and I sent one Property release for all. I like giving new sites a chance because ya never know. I would pick a few hundred or so of your good sellers and give it a shot before sending everything.  seem Like good folks there. Also the site for me seems very fast at showing Images. Hope they do well. Haven't sent any People Images and I'll wait on that till it settles in.Thats my report.

https://stockbo.com/search.php?clearSearch=true&searchPhrase=abstract

mlwinphoto

« Reply #137 on: February 09, 2014, 00:14 »
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I like giving new sites a chance because ya never know. I would pick a few hundred or so of your good sellers and give it a shot before sending everything.  seem Like good folks there.

I wish I had a few hundred good sellers.... :(

But, I agree, good to give new sites a chance.  There have been some bugs...pretty typical of a new site going through some growing pains.  Time will tell.

Carl

  • Carl Stewart, CS Productions
« Reply #138 on: February 09, 2014, 07:03 »
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I'm finding the uploading process to be a bit more time-consuming than I like.  One reason is because the system is taking the description from the IPTC data and putting it in the title field, leaving the description field blank.  So I can either leave it that way, or correct it by manually putting the information in the appropriate fields.  I also have to manually type in the copyright information for each photo.  Additionally, there's a check box for model and property releases, but no mechanism that I can see for uploading releases and assigning them to specific photos.  Perhaps all they're looking for is my acknowledgement that a release is on file.

In order to avoid taking too much time to upload, it would obviously be much better if the system would put the IPTC data in the appropriate fields, and it would also be much better to allow me to enter a default copyright notice on my profile, with the option to change it for a specific photograph if necessary.

« Reply #139 on: February 09, 2014, 16:27 »
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I also received an email from them and noticed that they didn't hide the email addresses they where sending to. Really very unprofessional... Now we all have a collection of email addresses anyone can spam to :-(
Protection of personal data just went for a walk...
 :o  :o
Whoow! This is a some (huge) minus  :o ... can't believe... :|

Yeah, me neither! It was just plain goofy...wait, MORE than goofy! :(

« Reply #140 on: February 15, 2014, 02:15 »
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Hey everyone! Apologies we have been a bit silent here, it's been pretty hectic getting everything going, but we are full time on our emails so feel free to email us at artistry(at)stockbo.com anytime :).

But in regards to your comments:

There are still a few bugs on the site but we will phase them out, we're working on the crucial ones first.

There's no need to upload model / property releases, our check boxes are just there to indicate to the buyer if there is one. We may request it if the buyer requests it though. There's no need to upload one for each image but you can do what Rinderart did if you prefer and email us the bunch of your releases together. With that we can also look after ticking the release check boxes for you if you like, just let us know.

In terms of url image numbers, we've gone this route to make it easier to categorise and locate images, as search engine algorithms don't reward url keywording as much as they used to. Saying that though, we will monitor it and adapt.

Recent bugs to the uploading were because we upgraded servers and the new server didn't have the optimal settings for the site, thus file sizes were being limited and the inactive automatic log-outs were extremely short. We've manually adjusted these making them much much larger so those issues should be gone.

We're also investigating replacing the java uploader to a fancy new html5 version to make things much easier and streamlined. We'll have an update on this during the week.

The IPTC is working for the majority of images (except for the description which is optional) and titles, keywords, and copyright should be imported. Most are working fine but we're looking into why some aren't getting picked up. The title should be in the right place now for both FTP and java.

We most definitely want to make it easier for you and that's what we're working towards. Until we switch to smart galleries we're even allocating galleries for you.

Thanks for all the support and comments :)!

Ranjeev

Stockbo Team

Rinderart

« Reply #141 on: February 15, 2014, 15:38 »
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"We're also investigating replacing the java uploader to a fancy new html5 version to make things much easier and streamlined. We'll have an update on this during the week."

Good news.


ruewi

« Reply #142 on: February 24, 2014, 02:29 »
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Just received my first payment. Yeah!

« Reply #143 on: February 24, 2014, 03:24 »
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Just received my first payment. Yeah!

wow, how quick...if this site takes vectors or other illustrations? :)

ruewi

« Reply #144 on: February 24, 2014, 04:24 »
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Just received my first payment. Yeah!

wow, how quick...if this site takes vectors or other illustrations? :)

Well, to be correct on this: I just had my first sale, which led to a direct payment. That's one small step for a man, but nevertheless it's a step into the right direction.  ;D

Rinderart

« Reply #145 on: February 24, 2014, 12:26 »
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Great news.

« Reply #146 on: July 25, 2014, 01:33 »
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I just saw Stockbo pricing offer:

https://stockbo.com/featured.php?mode=subscriptions

Price: $5,397.00 - 365 beautiful images. Works out to around $14.79 per image (70% cheaper than an outright XL Image).

Normally the price would be $50/ DL.
"For subscriptions, our contributors earn $9.95 for each image downloaded using a subscription."
 :-\
« Last Edit: July 25, 2014, 01:39 by Ariene »

« Reply #147 on: July 25, 2014, 01:49 »
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Something to say about sales there?

« Reply #148 on: July 25, 2014, 02:58 »
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I just saw that Sean is their "featured photographer" - with 0 files  ;D

« Reply #149 on: July 25, 2014, 15:05 »
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I just saw that Sean is their "featured photographer" - with 0 files  ;D

Where do you see a featured photographer? I just went to the site and couldn't find anything - I don't have an account, so is it something you have to be logged in to see?


 

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