13:38 UK time - '502 Bad Gateway'

Still down, (UK).

Managed to get on a few time but when I have it has been very slow.

UK here - it's buggered! (technical term)

Thanks Sue, I don�t frequent IS forums very often.  I�m assuming it�s not worth submitting a ticket to IS regarding the 200 shortfall.

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Sunday 05.30 GMT

My last 2 batches uploaded never showed up in pending or anywhere else, i had to email them and then they were processed

So something is messed up

It worked at first but now having the same problem!

nothing on my account

Nor here!

Nothing over here...


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Nor here!

posted on their forum:

Hi Everyone,

 I wanted to post an update here, as I understand there are some questions regarding views and vectors. The two are unrelated, but are two outstanding technical developments that contributors may have noticed:

 VIEWS:
 Views are not being updated presently. We're updating some of the code behind the scenes as we work on rolling out some exciting search improvements, and views is presently a casualty of that. We will restore the functionality, but given it's primarily a "just for fun" feature, we're focusing on the bigger improvements at the moment before circling back and getting it working again.

 So if you notice your files are not getting views, that does not mean they are not being seen - as many of you will now have files with 0 views and 1+ sales.

 VECTORS:
 Vectors have been a real pain for many of us recently. We've had an ongoing issue with processing vectors, as we for a while have been barely able to keep up with the flow of vector files coming in. That's a great problem to have, of course. But if a contributor uploads 10,000 vectors at once, it means the entire system can be delayed for a day.

 Vectors are deceptively complicated to process in the back-end, as there are so many different ways the files are saved and so many possible issues to run into. So they have always taken much longer than JPG images for us to process.

 One issue we have had more and more of is people uploading vector files that just contain a single JPG image in a layer. Not only are these files that we would never want to sell, as it's deceptive for customers, but it also is very hard for our system to handle. Our system assumes that .eps files are true vectors - so when rasterized content is included, it tries to make sense of it, which can lead to it crashing. I think people would be genuinely shocked at how many files like this, and otherwise invalid files we get. Those tend to hurt the system and slow down things for everyone.

 So we launched an entirely new vector processing system, which is 10x as fast and able to better detect invalid files. This should mean in the future there won't be any delay in vector files being processed, which many of you will be happy to hear. Over the last week we have been using it to catch up on the backlog. There have been some glitches, however, with thumbnails being broken for some files as one such issue. As a result, we have been sending files back in batches to be re-processed. We have also been working on systems to remove the poor files I mentioned above.

 We're on the home stretch now and hope to be caught up with the vector processing and fix broken thumbnails shortly. Thanks for your patience for all of this, as we think the end result will be worth the speed bumps we've had over the last week or two.

 Duncan

This year I'm approx. 99.9% approval rate, I only upload on average 40-50 vectors per month though.

My earnings took a big hit August 2013 and despite uploading nearly 400 new vectors this year I�m still down approx 10-20% each month from a year ago.

Forums still down (06.50 GMT)

Those selfish buyers, they will be taking even more time off come Christmas!