Quote from: ShadySue on November 22, 2014, 06:06

Quote from: stockuser on November 22, 2014, 05:07

I'm not a native speaker but I think 'based out of USA' means 'located in the USA but doing business worldwide' for a non-native speaker this could be easily misunderstood as 'not located in the USA'. I think this is the way fairplay understood it.

Yes, Fairplay has probably misunderstood 'out of' as meaning 'outwith'.

And there's a word no American English speaker would ever use.

I'd have to take your word for that.
But I was really talking about the meaning of 'outwith', rather than the actual word.

BTW, the person who minussed my comment should explain why they think Fairplay is getting so incensed. I said "probably", to make allowances for their possible misunderstanding; I wasn't stating as fact that I could read their mind.

You know... "I couldna have robbed that store last night 'cause I was outwith ma girl."

Read the word a few times. Don't think I've ever heard anyone use it in speech. The usual English word used is "without" but even that's not used much as meaning "outside" in modern times.

outwith  prep. (Scot.)
according to my online-dictionary its Scottish and the same as outside

But never as in "I'm just going outside", or "Baby, it's cold outside".

Much nearer to 'outside of'.
As in "many photographers outwith microstock don't see a problem with their online gallery images not being watermarked".
Or "Allegedly, 'outwith' isn't much used outwith Scotland".

Quote from: stockuser on November 22, 2014, 05:07

I'm not a native speaker but I think 'based out of USA' means 'located in the USA but doing business worldwide' for a non-native speaker this could be easily misunderstood as 'not located in the USA'. I think this is the way fairplay understood it.

Yes, that's exactly what happened! 
Randy Mckown, please accept my apologies!

No need for apologies my friend. I'm sure that if I traveled to your native country I would misunderstand people on a daily basis. There's no harm in it. 

Who keeps a hi res gallery online these days? Seems a bit naive.

Quote from: ShadySue on November 22, 2014, 06:06

Quote from: stockuser on November 22, 2014, 05:07

I'm not a native speaker but I think 'based out of USA' means 'located in the USA but doing business worldwide' for a non-native speaker this could be easily misunderstood as 'not located in the USA'. I think this is the way fairplay understood it.

Yes, Fairplay has probably misunderstood 'out of' as meaning 'outwith'.

And there's a word no American English speaker would ever use.

Exactly right. "Outwith" means absolutely nothing to this American.

Sometimes things just get lost in translation. This appears to be one of those.

People on FAA dont care about stolen digitals either, for most of us here digitals are bread and butter

no answer yet.. why ask for contributors and let them wait so long?
I just want to test with a few images how that site works. Supporting PIXYLOO this way too.
I checked your site a few minutes ago, do you have a small server (low) ?
1 minute and a few seconds until 100% site content is visible.. 

I also checked your script a bit: "just a word press theme?" 

Same here. I applied the day of the announcement and never heard back. As a courtesy, it would have been nice if they at least had acknowledged that they received my application. At this point, I don't even know if it went through. Not as professional as I had hoped.

no answer yet.. why ask for contributors and let them wait so long?
I just want to test with a few images how that site works. Supporting PIXYLOO this way too.
I checked your site a few minutes ago, do you have a small server (low) ?
1 minute and a few seconds until 100% site content is visible.. 

I also checked your script a bit: "just a word press theme?" 

This is our pre-launch phase and we just began collecting applications for our initial round of artists.
We have not activated our CDN yet but even with that in consideration our code is still outperforming 3 out 4 of the top tier sites in the benchmarks for Google Page Speed and all 4 top tiers for Bing & Yahoo.
In the US & Canada we have 2 second load times, 4-5 across Europe. The only places we have seen excessive load times are in not all but some areas of China, Australia & in Argentina. If you're experiencing 1 minute load times, I'd be very interested to know where you're located and what type of internet connection you have. Feel free to PM me with any technical specs.
YES to Wordpress. It's an extremely powerful foundation to build on. If CNN can support their massive amount of traffic using it, we should be just fine.  .. still there's a lot of custom modifications I'm giving our coder to wok on.

I applied too and never heard back. Guess they don't like my work.

We will begin contacting artists after the first of the new year to be a part of our official launch. I just added this notice to the application page to avoid any confusion and we will begin sending out email notifications stating the same. So, if you haven't been invited yet it doesn't mean we don't like your work. 

Germany. I  tested it again several times. connection - fast but,
image loading 20 sec and at afternoon close to 60sec.
50k internet connection, so no problem here.
Good luck with pixyloo, let us know when we can start uploading some images.

Ok that looks like the results we recorded for the homepage in Germany (which is a temporary layout that is being changed before launch) .. How does a product page like this one look? .. http://pixyloo.com/downloads/sexy-dirty-blonde-girl/ ... our spreadsheet shows me that it's loading in Frankfurt, Germany at 5.6 seconds ... which will be faster when we activate the CDN before our official launch.

We have not officially launched yet.

We will begin contacting artists after the first of the new year to be a part of our official launch. I just added this notice to the application page to avoid any confusion and we will begin sending out email notifications stating the same. So, if you haven't been invited yet it doesn't mean we don't like your work. 

Any changes lately?

It's so quiet here, are people still waiting for contact? My application is still with no answer...