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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Microstock Services => Topic started by: roede-orm on October 19, 2013, 08:43

Title: PicNiche for Contributors
Post by: roede-orm on October 19, 2013, 08:43

Even the BigStock button no longer works now. Wonder if if a new version of PicNiche will be available sometime , beacause I love the tool!

röde-orm

Title: Re: PicNiche for Contributors
Post by: cuppacoffee on October 19, 2013, 09:35

Yes, it's great and bobbigmac has made some recent small adjustments. However, I believe that he said that it is getting expensive and time-consuming to maintain and that he is not upgrading all areas. You could send him a message. Hopefully those who are using it are paying for it now and then via make a contribution.

Title: Re: PicNiche for Contributors
Post by: roede-orm on October 19, 2013, 10:28

Quote from: cuppacoffee on October 19, 2013, 09:35

Hopefully those who are using it are paying for it now and then via make a contribution.

I think, it's worth paying for it. Would be nice, if the tool would work like 2 or 3 years ago.

Title: Re: PicNiche for Contributors
Post by: Pilens on October 19, 2013, 13:18

I regularly use it for keywording and I really like it. Uploading/distributing to the agencies, however, never worked for me reliable enough. Far too often meta data got randomly lost in space creating a time consuming mess. But I haven't tried again for almost a year. So maybe this bug is fixed now. I use my bluehost (symbiostock) account to distribute stuff to the micros via SSH script, which is a nice extra benefit I get out of self-hosting.

Title: Re: PicNiche for Contributors
Post by: bobbigmac on October 20, 2013, 09:44

Will have the Bigstock button fixed sometime today/tomorrow. They've changed their design so I will figure out a new spec for it soon :)

Title: Re: PicNiche for Contributors
Post by: roede-orm on October 20, 2013, 14:24

 @bobbimac: Thank you, great news!  ;)

Title: Re: PicNiche for Contributors
Post by: bobbigmac on October 20, 2013, 16:46

Fixed Bigstock.
Probably will never get round to adding further features to this toolbar, the changing agency sites (anyone who used the ImageDeck will know what I mean :) ) and the time required to maintain around changes is too much for a free toolbar (even the approval process for firefox addons has changed so much that pushing a client-side update takes aaaages (weeks) for them to approve and release), but if any of the pollers stop working please drop me a message and I'll update asap. I generally catch the big 6 pretty quick, but can be tricky to find a spare half hour or so to 'code' and apply an update.
Thx for the heads up :)

Title: Re: PicNiche for Contributors
Post by: weltreisendertj on May 28, 2014, 15:48

I have found a alternative for you -> mymicrostockupload.com and the bigstock button is working .-)