From Rogermexico:

"January 21
We should see several fixes happening early next week, for the search and the issues stemming from the mid-week downtime. I will have updates on Monday."

Lots of emotion coming. Fasten your seatbelts.

Quote from: RacePhoto on January 22, 2011, 17:27

But back on topic. It appears that the programmers at IS don't bother to test the software before they release it, just make it run and unleash it. There's never time to do it right now, but always time to fix it later?

But what's the reason they're being rushed? I don't know of too many developers who rush rolling out updates. In fact, quite the opposite. They usually like to make sure it's right. I'm thinking management is pushing the IT dept to deploy updates on hard deadlines and deal with the issues later.

Which is totally counter-productive.
Which level of management isn't seeing this? Is it Kelly or is it the puppeteers?

And there's the mysterious left hand navigation disappearance.
Now if you want to upload, you have to do it via your sitemail page.
Who would have guessed?

More stuff not done/broken.

http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=295342&page=1

The iStockphoto site is truly crippled.  Everyday I check the Help and Discussion forums and (foolishly) think that the reconstructed site nightmare will be over. But each time I look there is another handful of glitches added to the an ever growing pile of problems.  I also fall prey to the promise of "Monday" and with the new week the nightmare will end.  It's January 23, for H@ck sake!  An IT replacement team could have been hired and trained (by Getty?) by now.
I once worked with a guy who use a focus group for his product research.  He was always enthusiastic yet very ineffective.  It turned out that his focus group was his wife and young children.  I figure something like this went on when iStock did testing on their site revisions. 

And another old school iStocker is hitting the road. Anyone remember Kate of purple dildo fame. That's going way back...

http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=293422&page=1#post5683192

And another old school iStocker is hitting the road. Anyone remember Kate of purple dildo fame. That's going way back...

http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=293422&page=1#post5683192 [nofollow]

I won't tell Kate you said that! 

Did iStock ever do a Beta for the F5 update? A rhetorical question.

I seem to remember her asking me if I wanted a little cheese with that whine when I complained about a rejection for a different reason altogether following a resubmit of an image! Probably 2004 or 2005. She became an inspector, briefly, I think. But that was back in the days of Peebert and a somewhat more wild west atmosphere

Sounds like me.
And yeah, I was an inspector for a while. It was definitely a different place way back then.

And there's the mysterious left hand navigation disappearance.
Now if you want to upload, you have to do it via your sitemail page.
Who would have guessed?

LOL, I thought I must have gone mad when it disappeared. Aren't upload, search and purchase  the three absolutely crucial things that would never get forgotten in an "upgrade"? Wouldn't you have to be a complete moron to delete all the upload buttons on a crowdsource site? It disappeared from half the pages in the last major shake-up, I guess that was just the staging post for taking it off everything else. It must be an oversight that they left it on sitemail ... oh, and on the "site map".

I wonder how busy the inspectors are now.

Quote from: ShadySue on January 23, 2011, 06:43

And there's the mysterious left hand navigation disappearance.
Now if you want to upload, you have to do it via your sitemail page.
Who would have guessed?

LOL, I thought I must have gone mad when it disappeared. Aren't upload, search and purchase  the three absolutely crucial things that would never get forgotten in an "upgrade"? Wouldn't you have to be a complete moron to delete all the upload buttons on a crowdsource site? It disappeared from half the pages in the last major shake-up, I guess that was just the staging post for taking it off everything else. It must be an oversight that they left it on sitemail ... oh, and on the "site map".

I wonder how busy the inspectors are now.

I am pretty sure they took that side navi away so that the My Uploads page would fit better in the browser (width-wise).  You can still get to "upload" but clicking on "My Account" in the bottom left, then click on "Contributor Tools" and it's right there.   no need to go to sitemail for it.  

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on January 24, 2011, 11:02

I wonder how busy the inspectors are now.

52,397 in the queue just now: considerably up from the 44,XXX of a couple of weeks back.

Is there a way for a "normal" contributor to access such information, or is that only available to moderators and reviewers?

Quote from: YawningDog on January 24, 2011, 10:47

Quote from: jsnover on January 24, 2011, 02:47

I seem to remember her asking me if I wanted a little cheese with that whine when I complained about a rejection for a different reason altogether following a resubmit of an image! Probably 2004 or 2005. She became an inspector, briefly, I think. But that was back in the days of Peebert and a somewhat more wild west atmosphere

Sounds like me.
And yeah, I was an inspector for a while. It was definitely a different place way back then.

whoa!  I didnt recognize you Kate, didn't realize you had changed your handle to "yawning dog" --- reminds me Niilo.  Yeah, those were the good ole days when just the mere mention of purple would set off a flurry of NSFW posts.. lol!  good to see ya -- tho I'm sure you don't remember me as I was usually too afraid of peebert to ever post much.

I remember you.