Author Topic: Istock doesn't show new sales (Read 13510 times)

Elenathewise · « **on:** November 25, 2011, 13:10 »

Hmmm... for a few days now every time I go to "My uploads" page and try to sort by "Last DL" it shows me the same page ending with 01/11/2011. My total shows there's been many sales since then, but they don't show on the page! Anyone else is seeing this?

fotografer · « **Reply #1 on:** November 25, 2011, 13:12 »

Yes, it's happening to everybody. They're talking about it in the November problem thread in the IStock forums.

Cogent Marketing · « **Reply #2 on:** November 25, 2011, 13:33 »

I think it's a bug. Sometimes it works fine (as it normally does) and then the last D/L is dated as 10 Oct (in my case). But as the OP said, the total revenue amount is correct. If it's in the 'bug thread' they'll get to it sooner or later.

Elenathewise · « **Reply #3 on:** November 25, 2011, 13:42 »

thanks! sigh... makes you wonder what else is broken on the site. Bugs don't just appear out of nowhere, it means they are tinkering with things...

ShadySue · « **Reply #4 on:** November 25, 2011, 14:05 »

About a week, I think.
What I find really weird is that it seems only to be affecting the latest uploads column. The rest seem to be working fine. How can that happen?
Might be fixed during tomorrow's downtime.

cobalt · « **Reply #5 on:** November 25, 2011, 14:26 »

I hope it gets fixed tomorrow, it is really frustrating that I can´t see my last downloads.

And yes, i do worry what else will break while they try to fix this bug...

ToniFlap · « **Reply #6 on:** November 25, 2011, 14:33 »

Same here. But sometimes works for minutes .... baffling

SNP · « **Reply #7 on:** November 25, 2011, 14:46 »

since yesterday afternoon I cannot see my latest dls, no idea what my newest sales are. tried in safari on iPhone, in Firefox and explorer.....all stuck on November 1st

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #8 on:** November 25, 2011, 14:54 »

I had given up trying in Firefox (Mac) to get any sales after November 1st, but did manage to see them in Chrome after a refresh or two (which used to work for Firefox, but no longer seems to).

I hope developers will be working on Sunday so they can fix any remaining bugs and have the site ready to go on Monday. This is the second year in a row things have been broken during the busy season (although it's not as much breakage this year as last). This isn't the time of year to be leaving the site in a flaky state (random objects in searches; delays in posting credits for PayPal purchases - it's not just contributors who are inconvenienced by their bugs)

dhanford · « **Reply #9 on:** November 25, 2011, 15:07 »

Well, if you keep refreshing, say 20 times or so, it will eventually show up. But if you do it too quickly, you pass the correct update and have to start over.

Seriously, is this any way to run a business?

They're going to do some site maintenance this Saturday and I'm almost certain that:
A. none of the current site bugs will be addressed
B. the execution of site maintenance will promote even more problems with the site

I cannot understand why they refuse to fix the site properly.

madelaide · « **Reply #10 on:** November 25, 2011, 18:06 »

Now that you've mentioned it, yes, it is hapenning to me, but it must have been just in the past few days, because my speadsheet is updated. I use FF.

gostwyck · « **Reply #11 on:** November 25, 2011, 19:01 »

Thats Istock for you! Now it's the 'weekend' too so apparently no chance of anyobody in Canada getting out of bed.

cobalt · « **Reply #12 on:** November 25, 2011, 19:06 »

deleted - sue was faster

ShadySue · « **Reply #13 on:** November 25, 2011, 19:07 »

Cobalt typed faster.

cobalt · « **Reply #14 on:** November 25, 2011, 19:08 »

Nooooo!

Ok, here is the thread! Site maintenance on saturday, announced on Thursday.

http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=337357&page=1

ShadySue · « **Reply #15 on:** November 25, 2011, 19:14 »

I do, however, strongly agree with the posters there who said this planned downtime should have been pre-announced much more prominently, especially to buyers, even though today is a particularly quiet Saturday.

stockanon · « **Reply #16 on:** November 26, 2011, 06:10 »

Just iStock living up to it´s true identity: iStuck (or iSuck if you prefer)

madelaide · « **Reply #17 on:** November 26, 2011, 12:40 »

What amazes me is how they manage to make something that was working stop working all of a sudden. I have registered this month's sales in my spreadsheet, and now I only see one at Nov 1st (unless I try many times). What do these people do with their code to let this happen?? How can we even trust that each sale is being registered correctly?

ToniFlap · « **Reply #18 on:** November 26, 2011, 15:25 »

Quote from: madelaide on November 26, 2011, 12:40

What amazes me is how they manage to make something that was working stop working all of a sudden. I have registered this month's sales in my spreadsheet, and now I only see one at Nov 1st (unless I try many times). What do these people do with their code to let this happen?? How can we even trust that each sale is being registered correctly?

+1

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #19 on:** November 26, 2011, 15:43 »

I can't say I'm surprised, but I think it is a disgrace that a whole week has gone by with no e-mail follow up on the missing royalties from the time when all sales (we hope!) were being recorded with the minimums. I would have liked the money and the accounting by now, but at the very least a mass e-mailing to contributors apologizing for the delay and giving a deadline by which the payments will be made.

I suspect that their internal systems are so inept that it isn't trivial to do the mass e-mail and they don't know when they'll make the payment because their tangle of script-running catchup procedures is a mess too. So they tweet things and ignore the forums and hope. Not good.

Larry · « **Reply #20 on:** November 26, 2011, 16:07 »

There are well known ways to keep a "mission critical" system running. For an internet-only business, itys web presence is "mission-critical". IStock needs to get a grip and either hire some qualified people or fire the manager who is over-driving the team beyond the point of adequacy.

stockastic · « **Reply #21 on:** November 26, 2011, 16:45 »

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stockastic · « **Reply #22 on:** November 26, 2011, 16:46 »

Quote from: Larry on November 26, 2011, 16:07

There are well known ways to keep a "mission critical" system running. For an internet-only business, itys web presence is "mission-critical". IStock needs to get a grip and either hire some qualified people or fire the manager who is over-driving the team beyond the point of adequacy.

Maybe fire the 15 managers that are coming in every week with new pricing, search and commission schemes for immediate implementation...

luissantos84 · « **Reply #23 on:** November 26, 2011, 19:48 »

The site will be down today between 4pm and 9pm MST while we do some routine maintenance. But don’t worry, we’ll be back soon!

I am not worried but ain´t 5 hours a lot? I have never seen a Bank offline for a single second ok its different but it ain´t good I guess

klsbear · « **Reply #24 on:** November 26, 2011, 21:39 »

Quote from: jsnover on November 26, 2011, 15:43

I can't say I'm surprised, but I think it is a disgrace that a whole week has gone by with no e-mail follow up on the missing royalties from the time when all sales (we hope!) were being recorded with the minimums. I would have liked the money and the accounting by now, but at the very least a mass e-mailing to contributors apologizing for the delay and giving a deadline by which the payments will be made.

I suspect that their internal systems are so inept that it isn't trivial to do the mass e-mail and they don't know when they'll make the payment because their tangle of script-running catchup procedures is a mess too. So they tweet things and ignore the forums and hope. Not good.

Lobo had an "update" with no real news this afternoon. Basically said that they were working on it and it was a lot of data and he thought maybe by the end of next week they would have things back in order. Not specifically indicating that there would be an e-mail accounting by that time though, seemed to be talking more about restoring the online data that's visible to us all.

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Author Topic: Istock doesn't show new sales (Read 13510 times)

Elenathewise

fotografer

Cogent Marketing

Elenathewise

ShadySue

cobalt

ToniFlap

SNP

Jo Ann Snover

dhanford

madelaide

gostwyck

cobalt

ShadySue

cobalt

ShadySue

stockanon

madelaide

ToniFlap

Jo Ann Snover

Larry

stockastic

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luissantos84

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