Author Topic: Istock F5 epic fail (Read 268461 times)

Sadstock · « **Reply #475 on:** January 19, 2011, 00:42 »

Quote from: pling on January 18, 2011, 23:59

what happened to the site? lost css file?

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caspixel · « **Reply #476 on:** January 19, 2011, 00:44 »

OMG! On and on it goes.

Artemis · « **Reply #477 on:** January 19, 2011, 00:51 »

Yep, it now went completely bonkers.
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=293812&page=1

Ploink · « **Reply #478 on:** January 19, 2011, 01:17 »

Quote from: Artemis on January 19, 2011, 00:51

Yep, it now went completely bonkers.
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=293812&page=1

Lobo (from the above mentioned thread): "There appear to be some issues occurring on the site..." - That's got to be the understatement of the year, if not the decade...

Graffoto · « **Reply #479 on:** January 19, 2011, 02:14 »

AAAARRRRRRRUUUUUGGGG!

There, I feel better now. No, actually I don't.
My Dec. was the wost one I've had since going exclusive and Jan. is not looking so hot either.
I am giving it one more month to fix all the screw-ups and then I'm turning in my crown if things are not better.

BaldricksTrousers · « **Reply #480 on:** January 19, 2011, 02:58 »

That site's grossly overcomplicated and instead of simplifying it to get back to something stable (it was, once, remember?) they just pile more and more complications on top of it. My sales in the past 24 hours seem to be pathetic, I've no idea if that is because they would be pathetic anyway, because they are not being recorded or because the search has been broken.

BaldricksTrousers · « **Reply #481 on:** January 19, 2011, 03:11 »

Quote from: dgilder on January 18, 2011, 12:58

Looks that way. Whee, $5 blog pricing for Vetta!

Bad lighting, over-filtration .... fair price, I'd say

traveler1116 · « **Reply #482 on:** January 19, 2011, 04:16 »

So the site is down again during the working week. I missed the next level by about 1 working day, most of the week days during January would have given me close to or enough RCs to make the 37,000 level. This is just crazy, how can they launch this stuff during the week without testing it first... again, and again and again?!?

bigmac · « **Reply #483 on:** January 19, 2011, 06:40 »

had enough of istock and its dictatorial approach. i spotted the potential for this a long long time ago, but if you post anything even remotely negative on the forums someone kicks you in the teeth. the corporate graveyard is full of companies that stuck their fingers in the air and went 'blah, blah, blah'. you've got to listen to the stuff you don't like guys. perhaps even more so than the arse-licking..... they are now banning complaints on the forum and want them to be sent as support tickets instead - so they can 'filter out the real issues'. but there's still a guy reading the complaints and deleting them?

has someone pushed the self-destruct button there?

Chico · « **Reply #484 on:** January 19, 2011, 06:57 »

All sort of weird things today at IS site. Someone needs to be fired quickly ... how about Mr Thompson?

And people go away...

"Thanks guys - I'll leave you to it and do something more productive. Good luc"

"search not working on Firefox 3.0.19 on OS. Sorry but this means at the moment I am having to go elsewhere to get my images!!! This was also happening before Christmas when eventually I had to buy an image from an alternative online photo supplier."

rubyroo · « **Reply #485 on:** January 19, 2011, 07:02 »

A question...

Have iStock ever apologised for any of this - either to the buyers or the contributors? I'm just curious because I've never seen any apology.

jjneff · « **Reply #486 on:** January 19, 2011, 08:36 »

I just have to vent here. I can't even login at iStock. My video files are constantly showing up as photo files, the site is a complete mess. How can a company this big mess up this much?
I thought once they redid the site it would be more stable. We have more problems now then we did before! I can only imagine if Amazon ran this way! I would like a stable site long before
we have new ideas to add to it! This is just plain crazy

leremy · « **Reply #487 on:** January 19, 2011, 08:56 »

The thread title speaks for itself... really epic fail for Istock.
The site seems to lose CSS file.

I guess that explains why my sales in SS is increasing lately.

Chico · « **Reply #488 on:** January 19, 2011, 09:22 »

The more fixes are released, worse gets the site.

Resign, Mr Thompson!!!!!

caspixel · « **Reply #489 on:** January 19, 2011, 10:17 »

I think we have now moved into the realm of SPECTACULAR epic fail.

jamirae · « **Reply #490 on:** January 19, 2011, 10:35 »

Quote from: caspixel on January 19, 2011, 10:17

I think we have now moved into the realm of SPECTACULAR epic fail.

no kidding! worst site F5 ever. gives a whole new meaning to F5. instead of "woo-yay!" it's now "run-away!"

cathyslife · « **Reply #491 on:** January 19, 2011, 10:44 »

Quote from: jamirae on January 19, 2011, 10:35

no kidding! worst site F5 ever. gives a whole new meaning to F5. instead of "woo-yay!" it's now "run-away!"

LOL!

But seriously, what a disaster. Every day I think that some sort of improvements will be happening and the site and contributors will resume making money, but it just seems to get worse and worse.

Though I do think someone there is making money, just not me.

Allsa · « **Reply #492 on:** January 19, 2011, 11:29 »

Quote from: bigmac on January 19, 2011, 06:40

had enough of istock and its dictatorial approach. i spotted the potential for this a long long time ago, but if you post anything even remotely negative on the forums someone kicks you in the teeth. the corporate graveyard is full of companies that stuck their fingers in the air and went 'blah, blah, blah'. you've got to listen to the stuff you don't like guys. perhaps even more so than the arse-licking..... they are now banning complaints on the forum and want them to be sent as support tickets instead - so they can 'filter out the real issues'. but there's still a guy reading the complaints and deleting them? has someone pushed the self-destruct button there?

+1

SNP · « **Reply #493 on:** January 19, 2011, 11:46 »

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on January 19, 2011, 02:58

That site's grossly overcomplicated and instead of simplifying it to get back to something stable (it was, once, remember?) they just pile more and more complications on top of it. My sales in the past 24 hours seem to be pathetic, I've no idea if that is because they would be pathetic anyway, because they are not being recorded or because the search has been broken.

I don't think they'd have been poor anyways. my sales have been really good the past two weeks. but today they're slow and intermittent. I'm assuming it's the site issues. delayed royalties have been paid though.

gostwyck · « **Reply #494 on:** January 19, 2011, 11:53 »

Quote from: caspixel on January 19, 2011, 10:17

I think we have now moved into the realm of SPECTACULAR epic fail.

No wait __ everything is going to be OK after all. RM says they've just fixed all the old problems with some new kit;

"Last night we went live with a massive overhaul of our backend infrastructure. This is a project that we've been working on for close to a year.

Our old system had a large number of individual machines that were linked together with a really complicated set of code- some of which dates back to the early days of the site.

What we have now is a new set of more robust, modern machines, and a new up-to-date code base connecting everything.

What this will all do is
- give us a huge upgrade in our extensibility and scalability. It is now much, much easier for us to add new storage, new information, and new code.
- improve who all the different parts of the system work with each other.
- cut out a lot of the old 'cruft' in the code base."

Phew __ big relief!

rubyroo · « **Reply #495 on:** January 19, 2011, 12:35 »

"cruft" ? What does that mean?

(I thought that was a single dog show..)

ShadySue · « **Reply #496 on:** January 19, 2011, 12:46 »

Quote from: rubyroo on January 19, 2011, 12:35

"cruft" ? What does that mean?

(I thought that was a single dog show..)

As a famous typo queen, I'm assuming it's supposed to be 'crud'.

RT · « **Reply #497 on:** January 19, 2011, 12:49 »

Quote from: gostwyck on January 19, 2011, 11:53

No wait __ everything is going to be OK after all. RM says they've just fixed all the old problems with some new kit;

Or in other words they got rid of the Sinclair ZX-81 and bagged themselves a shiny new netbook to run the site from. Obviously this extra expense will add to the unsustainable finances of the site and someone will have to pay - wonder who.

rubyroo · « **Reply #498 on:** January 19, 2011, 12:59 »

Quote from: ShadySue on January 19, 2011, 12:46

As a famous typo queen, I'm assuming it's supposed to be 'crud'.

Ahhh... now that I understand.

@ RT's Spectrum reference.

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #499 on:** January 19, 2011, 13:09 »

Quote from: rubyroo on January 19, 2011, 12:35

"cruft" ? What does that mean?

(I thought that was a single dog show..)

Here's the definition.

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