Quote from: jsnover on December 01, 2011, 00:34
With the version of the text that said it was 1979 again in English, we had what appears to be the original monster stuff in German.  In French, in both cases, completely different text.

Maybe, being in Canada, they couldn't find anyone that speaks French.

@gostwyk

Oy Vey!

Pretty serious since here it's 9:20am (Tokyo, Tawain and Singapore time). Most offices start at 8am. It's the first day of the month and Thursday. Some projects might be on deadlines since the end of the year is near.
I don't know if they have many Japanese customers but those won't be happy at all with this history of failures in our prime time.

    

Dunno whether to laugh or cry over IS's response.

now imagine someone in these countries running the error page through a google translator

Quote from: AttilaTheNun on December 01, 2011, 01:28
Pretty serious since here it's 9:20am (Tokyo, Tawain and Singapore time). Most offices start at 8am. It's the first day of the month and Thursday. Some projects might be on deadlines since the end of the year is near.
I don't know if they have many Japanese customers but those won't be happy at all with this history of failures in our prime time.

Business just closed for the day here on the US west coast (5:33 p.m.), and there's a bunch of folks freaking out on Twitter about not meeting their deadlines today.  Folks on the east coast must be really upset (8:33 p.m.).

Quote from: ShadySue on November 30, 2011, 23:11
What are the language 'links' at the top meant to do? Nothing, as far as I can see.

Those scroll down the page to the language portion corresponding to the link label.

Hopefully it's mainly intended for handheld (mobile) devices. I don't think too many designers are using primary displays with fewer than (approximately) 600 vertical pixels!

This is truly an embarrassment. This looks worse than Lucky Oliver's copy text gems. WOW.

Just WOW.

This is one of the weirdest things I've seen from a company of this size. Hacked maybe? Time for a 100% royalty week once they come back online.

Anyone want to send some twitter messages mentioning some other sites like DT or SS or any others that are still up and running?

I was trying to add up my totals for the month and I realized I have no clue what the pathetic IS contribution actually is - and that was before the icky monsters got into the basement and reset the servers back to 1979 or whatever happened.

I Think its time for publishing mix Chuck Norris and iStokars jokes at Twitter

I don't understand the childish and unprofessional behavior. The twitter page seems to be run by one person who speaks like an individual, and the error page treats both contributors and clients as if they are 8-year olds. Do they really think people will laugh at their "funny" monsters and 1979 jokes? Many companies around the world rely on Istock for their images. They have deadlines to meet, projects to finish, yet Istock thinks we all live in a happy little joyful candyland where business and economics is of secondary importance. They don't seem to care what kind of message this conveys. Not just the downtime in itself is horrible, but the way they present it is horrible as well.

This is totally amateurish.  They got $80,000 from my photos and this is the best they can do??  And I am only a small fish....Can you imagine all the money they got from all of us? The non stop crap??? This is no joke???

I had company over at my house, tried to pull-up iStock, got the crazy page and they began asking me just what kind of company would do this and how unprofessional it was!

I had a client who was using it. We were trying to look at some photo she selected and that page came up. She is now searching elsewhere; canstockphoto.com and 123rf.com will be getting her business now. She also liked the prices on the latter two better.

Quote from: tee on December 01, 2011, 01:53
This is one of the weirdest things I've seen from a company of this size. Hacked maybe? Time for a 100% royalty week once they come back online.

Au contraire mon ami.
They've upped the discount to 15%.
Will the bosses or IT guys also get a direct 15% pay cut?

Quote from: ShadySue on December 01, 2011, 02:20

Quote from: tee on December 01, 2011, 01:53
This is one of the weirdest things I've seen from a company of this size. Hacked maybe? Time for a 100% royalty week once they come back online.

Au contraire mon ami.
They've upped the discount to 15%.
Will the bosses or IT guys also get a direct 15% pay cut?

Doubtful.  The first discount was 10% on 50 or more credits.  This 15% discount is on any purchase. 

There may not be any buyers left so we'll get to keep that 15% anyway.

"Starting tomorrow until Dec 7, this code will give you 15% off any purchase: 1979SUCKS."

1979SUCKS? It's getting worse and worse. This is beyond nightmare.

Does an IT have enough clout to keep offering amended discounts? I smell a rat.

I think its very telling that istock is quick to answer tweets and offer discounts to customers yet when I ask how what they're going to do for contributors, I'm met with silence. That's exactly how important we are to them folks...

they have been replying to contributors' tweets too....

ridiculous.  I just got back from the dentist - the left side of my face is numb.. I login to see if I have any sales.. and I get the ridiculous 1979sucks page.  what?  screenshot attached in case it changes and anyone misses this assinine thing. 

really, iStock?  can you also give contributors 15% MORE for what we are losing?? 

Quote from: SNP on December 01, 2011, 02:28
they have been replying to contributors' tweets too....

Well, not me. But if so, what exactly are they saying they're going to do to compensate the contributors? Nothing, I'm sure.