Author Topic: Notification: Site Feature Changes (Read 14856 times)

luissantos84 · « **Reply #50 on:** October 11, 2013, 07:39 »

Quote from: wds on October 11, 2013, 07:32

Forums not working for me.

same goes for profile here

ShadySue · « **Reply #51 on:** October 11, 2013, 07:40 »

Forums now showing a Gateway Timeout Error.
At least the white page earlier still had the search box above, but to be fair, I guess not many buyers browse the forums then go to search.
Search is working form the home page.
Added: now forums is again a white page with the search bar at the top.

luissantos84 · « **Reply #52 on:** October 11, 2013, 07:45 »

it gotta be the slowest site on all earth, just unbelievable and very annoying!

Petr Toman · « **Reply #53 on:** October 11, 2013, 08:19 »

Quote from: Mellimage on October 10, 2013, 04:43

I hope I can help out with the site performance. I just asked for my account to be deleted. (After having deactivated my images there a few years ago already).

Yeah, so I finally decided too, I didnt upload anything like for a year, 0 sales on my very small port there, so there is no reason to continue on this wrecking ship

I deactivated all images (thanks SL for the greasemonkey script, saved me today like 2 hours at lest) and I requested to close my account.

Time to scale up my photo skills and move to stocksy or offset haha

Monkeyman · « **Reply #54 on:** October 11, 2013, 09:30 »

Yeah, no improvements in speed yet... I'm getting gateway timeout a lot this morning. I wonder how many customers they've lost to other sites the past year...

Will they ever get their site back on track or will they be in the "low earner" section of this forum in a year or so? It's nail biting times for us exclusives right now. $:-\$

Ron · « **Reply #55 on:** October 11, 2013, 09:46 »

Its an absolute mess. Its slower then ever before. The World Wide Web wasnt even that slow back in 1993.

Ron · « **Reply #56 on:** October 11, 2013, 09:52 »

Gateway Timeout

The proxy server did not receive a timely response from the upstream server.
Reference #1.94487b5c.1381503047.5acf1eb

ShadySue · « **Reply #57 on:** October 11, 2013, 11:24 »

That's odd.

At least two comments about site problems today, which were true, have 'disappeared' from their forums.
Hope the commentor didn't get banned.

sharpshot · « **Reply #58 on:** October 11, 2013, 11:45 »

They probably have to remove negative posts about the site, as they are causing the slowdown

lisafx · « **Reply #59 on:** October 11, 2013, 12:31 »

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on October 11, 2013, 06:27

Forum's working for me, Sue. The site doesn't seem any faster - Dreamstime, on the other hand, is working like a flash since iStock deleted the blog entries. Strange but true.

ROFL! Then it was worth it after all

tickstock · « **Reply #60 on:** October 11, 2013, 12:34 »

lisafx · « **Reply #61 on:** October 11, 2013, 12:37 »

Quote from: tickstock on October 11, 2013, 12:34

Quote from: lisafx on October 11, 2013, 12:31
Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on October 11, 2013, 06:27
Forum's working for me, Sue. The site doesn't seem any faster - Dreamstime, on the other hand, is working like a flash since iStock deleted the blog entries. Strange but true.

ROFL! Then it was worth it after all
Istock didn't delete the blog entries yet, I think the two are unrelated.

Another helpful post from Captain Obvious.

tickstock · « **Reply #62 on:** October 11, 2013, 12:45 »

KB · « **Reply #63 on:** October 11, 2013, 12:53 »

Quote from: Ron on October 11, 2013, 09:46

The World Wide Web wasnt even that slow back in 1993.

Funny line, but of course not true for the majority of web users back then. It took forever just to dial out and connect .... Ugh; not fond memories.

Ron · « **Reply #64 on:** October 11, 2013, 13:09 »

@ Lisa

Captain Obvious

ShadySue · « **Reply #65 on:** October 18, 2013, 05:22 »

Noticed last night that the search looked different, but thought I'd forgotten how the last change looked.
Anyway, now it doesn't 'hold' your display preferences (at the beginning of the week it wasn't holding if you wanted to see photos only, haven't checked that yet). The thums look to me to be smaller (subjectively, I didn't measure the last layout!) and 'only from iStock' has gone completely. So now there is no indication on the search thums, loupe view or file page that an image is exclusive. Well, I've thought for a while they wanted rid of exclusives and this might be one more clue.
OTOH, recently 'only at iStock' (quite apart from those images for which it was untrue) suggested 'more expensive', even for exclusive files demoted to Main.
Wonder whose turn it was to 'suggest something' yesterday?
Not necessarily saying the changes are bad, just that for a long time now, they seem to be trying out random changes without any evidence of a joined-up strategy.

BaldricksTrousers · « **Reply #66 on:** October 18, 2013, 05:30 »

Quote from: tickstock on October 11, 2013, 12:45

Quote from: lisafx on October 11, 2013, 12:37
Quote from: tickstock on October 11, 2013, 12:34
Quote from: lisafx on October 11, 2013, 12:31
Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on October 11, 2013, 06:27
Forum's working for me, Sue. The site doesn't seem any faster - Dreamstime, on the other hand, is working like a flash since iStock deleted the blog entries. Strange but true.

ROFL! Then it was worth it after all
Istock didn't delete the blog entries yet, I think the two are unrelated.

Another helpful post from Captain Obvious.
I only posted because I went to Istock to see what they had done now that "iStock deleted the blog entries", but they hadn't deleted them. It wasn't obvious to me that he was lying about that part because it's going to happen sometime, just not yet.

Actually, they had deleted them but then they put them back (and I wasn't "lying" about the DT part, either, though I'm willing to admit that it might just have been a coincidence).

tickstock · « **Reply #67 on:** October 18, 2013, 06:58 »

ShadySue · « **Reply #68 on:** October 18, 2013, 07:03 »

Quote from: tickstock on October 18, 2013, 06:58

Quote from: ShadySue on October 18, 2013, 05:22
Noticed last night that the search looked different, but thought I'd forgotten how the last change looked.
Anyway, now it doesn't 'hold' your display preferences (at the beginning of the week it wasn't holding if you wanted to see photos only, haven't checked that yet). The thums look to me to be smaller (subjectively, I didn't measure the last layout!) and 'only from iStock' has gone completely. So now there is no indication on the search thums, loupe view or file page that an image is exclusive. Well, I've thought for a while they wanted rid of exclusives and this might be one more clue.
OTOH, recently 'only at iStock' (quite apart from those images for which it was untrue) suggested 'more expensive', even for exclusive files demoted to Main.
Wonder whose turn it was to 'suggest something' yesterday?
Not necessarily saying the changes are bad, just that for a long time now, they seem to be trying out random changes without any evidence of a joined-up strategy.
It does say only from istock on the loupe view.

Sorry, you are totally correct. I was only looking in the white area.

goober · « **Reply #69 on:** October 18, 2013, 08:58 »

Why did they introduce the similar images feature and then two weeks later it has been removed? It's like the goal posts are always moving with no consultation or even an announcement.

ShadySue · « **Reply #70 on:** October 18, 2013, 09:12 »

Quote from: goober on October 18, 2013, 08:58

I know you probably discussed this elsewhere. Why did they introduce the similar images feature and then two weeks later it has been removed? It's like the goal posts are always moving with no consultation or even an announcement. I was doing better with the similars feature but now I'm back to normal.

It was extremely unpopular with content suppliers as it appeared before their own linked lightboxes. Also, many of the files weren't very 'similar', often bizarrely unlike.
However, the actual reason it was removed was that it slowed down the site even more than normal.
It currently appears in the loupe view, totally gazumping the contributor's linked images / banner. The image shown are still subject to random reordering by buyers (and 'viewers' (?) ) of the importance of keywords, so not always very 'similar'.

Shelma1 · « **Reply #71 on:** October 18, 2013, 11:08 »

The good news is that all the changes have resulted in a much faster site.

Not.

Ron · « **Reply #72 on:** October 18, 2013, 11:31 »

Quote from: Shelma1 on October 18, 2013, 11:08

The good news is that all the changes have resulted in a much faster site.

Not.

I thought it was faster. Its not as slow as it used to be

Ron · « **Reply #73 on:** November 04, 2013, 13:18 »

On second thought, if the site gets any slower, I am going to switch to pigeon.

Its been loading for a minute now to get to my earnings, but nothing is happening.

I cant wait to close my account. Forget submitting to TS. Its a dead horse.

nitrus · « **Reply #74 on:** November 04, 2013, 17:03 »

The site has stopped altogether at least with regard to the forums - nothing comes up but an empty page. I can view photos in best match etc but I can't view my own stuff. Also I was trying to upload some photos and the deep meta was crawling so I had to stop. I can't check if they uploaded or not.There is something not right over there!

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