Author Topic: The "New" IS (Read 94342 times)

Freedom · « **Reply #125 on:** October 24, 2013, 19:20 »

Quote from: raclro on October 19, 2013, 22:16

Maybe it is an anomaly but both sales and $ have bumped up nearly double since the changes last month or whenever they happened. The lower pricing is certainly working for me so far.

October has picked up substantially after a total disastrous September. In the first half of October, the revenue had already passed the total amount of the full month of September. I hope it continues.

ShadySue · « **Reply #126 on:** October 24, 2013, 19:44 »

Just noticed: a file I uploaded around 24 hours ago was number 28782026, and one uploaded five minutes ago is 28881870, which is as near 100,000 in a day as d*mmit.

BaldricksTrousers · « **Reply #127 on:** October 25, 2013, 02:17 »

Quote from: ShadySue on October 24, 2013, 19:44

Just noticed: a file I uploaded around 24 hours ago was number 28782026, and one uploaded five minutes ago is 28881870, which is as near 100,000 in a day as d*mmit.

That's odd. I was 28500654 a week ago, which 380,000 in a week or 50,000 a day. Yesterday it would obviously have been 280,000 in six days, or 45,000 a day. Perhaps they transferred a collection of 50k in overnight, on top of the usual uploads. 45k is still an awful lot, though. In the good old days, when I started, there were only 3,000 new files in a whole week.

Monkeyman · « **Reply #128 on:** October 25, 2013, 06:30 »

No wonder we don't get any views or sales then...

lisafx · « **Reply #129 on:** October 25, 2013, 13:12 »

I have Sean's Greasemonkey scripts installed to view the "my uploads" page, but since yesterday they are no longer working and I am seeing the wonky and unpleasant way Istock chooses to display them. Just checked and Greasemonkey is turned on and the scripts are enabled.

I guess this is part of the site design??

tickstock · « **Reply #130 on:** October 25, 2013, 13:13 »

lisafx · « **Reply #131 on:** October 25, 2013, 13:16 »

Quote from: tickstock on October 25, 2013, 13:13

Quote from: lisafx on October 25, 2013, 13:12
I have Sean's Greasemonkey scripts installed to view the "my uploads" page, but since yesterday they are no longer working and I am seeing the wonky and unpleasant way Istock chooses to display them. Just checked and Greasemonkey is turned on and the scripts are enabled.

I guess this is part of the site design??
You need to get the new version, it's all on the forum.

Thanks. I'll head on over and look for it.

tickstock · « **Reply #132 on:** October 25, 2013, 13:18 »

lisafx · « **Reply #133 on:** October 25, 2013, 13:25 »

Thanks for the link and instructions. I was having trouble finding it - saw that thread, but didn't notice the first post had been updated today.

Freedom · « **Reply #134 on:** October 25, 2013, 15:45 »

Lots of sales today and this month. I feel as if the good old days are back.

luissantos84 · « **Reply #135 on:** October 25, 2013, 16:00 »

Quote from: Freedom on October 25, 2013, 15:45

Lots of sales today and this month. I feel as if the good old days are back.

back on uploading

Freedom · « **Reply #136 on:** October 25, 2013, 16:04 »

I didn't upload a single image today and not many this week.

luissantos84 · « **Reply #137 on:** October 25, 2013, 16:06 »

Quote from: Freedom on October 25, 2013, 16:04

I didn't upload a single image today and not many this week.

ShadySue · « **Reply #138 on:** October 25, 2013, 16:37 »

Quote from: Freedom on October 25, 2013, 16:04

I didn't upload a single image today and not many this week.

Did your upturn include recent-ish uploads?

mlwinphoto · « **Reply #139 on:** October 25, 2013, 19:46 »

Quote from: luissantos84 on October 25, 2013, 16:00

Quote from: Freedom on October 25, 2013, 15:45
Lots of sales today and this month. I feel as if the good old days are back.

back on uploading

I've uploaded 4 images in the last 2 months....and I had a hard time convincing myself that it was worthwhile doing.

luissantos84 · « **Reply #140 on:** October 25, 2013, 20:07 »

Quote from: mlwinphoto on October 25, 2013, 19:46

Quote from: luissantos84 on October 25, 2013, 16:00
Quote from: Freedom on October 25, 2013, 15:45
Lots of sales today and this month. I feel as if the good old days are back.

back on uploading

I've uploaded 4 images in the last 2 months....and I had a hard time convincing myself that it was worthwhile doing.

4 more than I/me

Freedom · « **Reply #141 on:** October 25, 2013, 23:10 »

Quote from: ShadySue on October 25, 2013, 16:37

Quote from: Freedom on October 25, 2013, 16:04
I didn't upload a single image today and not many this week.
Did your upturn include recent-ish uploads?

Not really.

Beppe Grillo · « **Reply #142 on:** October 26, 2013, 00:36 »

mlwinphoto · « **Reply #143 on:** October 26, 2013, 15:02 »

Quote from: luissantos84 on October 25, 2013, 20:07

Quote from: mlwinphoto on October 25, 2013, 19:46
Quote from: luissantos84 on October 25, 2013, 16:00
Quote from: Freedom on October 25, 2013, 15:45
Lots of sales today and this month. I feel as if the good old days are back.

back on uploading

I've uploaded 4 images in the last 2 months....and I had a hard time convincing myself that it was worthwhile doing.

4 more than I/me

I'll follow your lead from now on.....

New stuff is going to Macrografiks.

ShadySue · « **Reply #144 on:** October 26, 2013, 15:32 »

Of my last 42 sales:
2007: 14
2008: 18
2009: 1
2010: 0
2011: 9 (8 editorial, which only started in lateish 2010)
2012: 0
2013: 0

Point in uploading new stuff? Questionable.
APU, a new file uploaded Thursday was down at 614/2415 as soon as it was showing in the database.

mlwinphoto · « **Reply #145 on:** October 26, 2013, 17:42 »

Quote from: ShadySue on October 26, 2013, 15:32

Of my last 42 sales:
2007: 14
2008: 18
2009: 1
2010: 0
2011: 9 (8 editorial, which only started in lateish 2010)
2012: 0
2013: 0

Point in uploading new stuff? Questionable.
APU, a new file uploaded Thursday was down at 614/2415 as soon as it was showing in the database.

Your results are pretty much in line with what I am reading in the forums. The decision to upload new material isn't questionable in my mind.
I suppose buyers (are there any left?) can search by 'Newest' but I wonder how many do..?

ShadySue · « **Reply #146 on:** October 26, 2013, 17:57 »

Quote from: mlwinphoto on October 26, 2013, 17:42

I suppose buyers (are there any left?) can search by 'Newest' but I wonder how many do..?

If they do, they'll get a search of at best 'dubious' relevance for many searches because keywording isn't being checked nowadays, other than by Keywordzilla.

ShadySue · « **Reply #147 on:** October 28, 2013, 06:59 »

Only just noticed (over the w/e, not sure when it started; files uploaded mid-last-week seem fine):
If you have to use a non-standard keyword, it's not 'sticking'. Don't know for how long, but certainly over the weekend.
Firstly, I noticed that locations I'd previously used, which aren't in the CV, were showing on upload as blue, i.e. they weren't showing that it had been used by someone before (i.e. me) but aren't in the CV.
Then I noticed that after acceptance, these non-CV words aren't 'sticking', i.e. they're still blue and need to be clicked to 'add for your own use only'. So they don't show up on the file's keyword list on its homepage, and can't be searched.
I don't know if it's sortable. Every time I do or redo them, it 'seems' to be 'taking' OK, but after a day or two, they are 'unclicked' again.
Bl**dy nuisance if your keyword is not in the CV.
(And yeah, before anyone asks, these are files which are too small for Alamy, either files from an older camera or where 400mm isn't long enough and the image has to be heavily cropped.)
NB: I'm not sure if it's only happening with multiple-word keyword 'phrases', as that's what I've been using, either species names of location. I haven't needed a one-word keyword since I noticed this 'issue'.
And I have no idea if 'use DM' would solve this.

ShadySue · « **Reply #148 on:** October 29, 2013, 07:06 »

^^ More, with screenshots!
The problem is persistent. This is a screendump of a file AFTER I had ticked the 'available for your own use' box for the THIRD time (the non-CV keyword phrases not having stuck), last night, before I went to bed:

NB that someone else had already added Savannah Sparrow to the CV, so it was already showing with a ! on my file.
This is how it is this morning, i.e. back to unadded for my own use, and unsearchable:

(I realise this looks like spam, but the systematics of this species is being discussed right now, with different authorities being split, and most of the academic papers I read have no image to illustrate their arguments. (Whether they would think to look on a micro site for a photo is moot, of course.)
Anyway, it's not about this photo, it's about a problem with adding non-CV phrases, which make a file effectively unsearchable.
I don't see this reported on the bugs thread or the keywords / search, and obviously I can't report it there.
I will send MS a report, but in the past, they did not respond to a bug report I made, did not pass it on, and it was weeks before someone else found it and reported it on the forums.

topol · « **Reply #149 on:** October 29, 2013, 11:08 »

Do they still have this dumb policy of requiring a new model release for each shoot?

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