Rock'n'Roll! 

Magic! 

I second that.

Love the location of the work place also. Nice view.

Yada wrote....."Are you surprised anymore when your computer locks and shuts down? When the web goes dead? When you get a site not found or 404 error?"


I dont know. It has never happened to me and if it did I can fix it or with a Phone call  have a guy here in 20 minutes..My wife also, she runs the Box Office around the world for all the major studios and If something isint right. It's fixed in a heartbeat. Doing Microstock is pretty low on our Joint priority Business Income List.. you can pretend you Love the Place all ya want. they could care less about you or anyone else. All I want is a site to be time and cost effective because I am.. all else is whining in My book.

And if it's on there side, then fix it, * it. I don't need anyone "Advocating" for me and change. I want them to do the Job "WE" pay for. * It. And I want smart people working for us. People that should have known to test this first.....Period. Yada,Yada.

But you aren't surprised when your computer suddenly hits a page not found or 404 error, because it happens every day. Your IT guy can't fix the way we are so dependent on others systems on the internet. That's the point. And yes they should have tested better to start with.

It's not looking good this morning. Most popular is completely screwed up. In one of my niches my most popular file has suddenly been replaced in the search by a ripoff of my illustration that's been on the site for a while and never performed very well before.

If they kept 10% of our earnings I could maybe cut them some slack. But if you're going to keep such a huge percentage of our money that you make yourself a billionaire, you really should be able to hire competent people.

Mine was doing that yesterday, it's a total mess isn't it. Then someone will figure out what punctuation was dropped from one line of the code and fix it again until someone else gets their fingers in and makes another error. SS is still running on unsupported, outdated software. Notice when you upload to FT it's instantly also on Adobe? When we upload to SS it's there, then gone and a day later there, maybe later missing again. They can't keep their own files organized on their own servers and it takes up to three days to get synced.

I still say this is the norm now with computers and the internet. When Yahoo lets millions of accounts data out in the wild, when you visit sites and they are down for unknown reasons, when your home computer suddenly slows down, without a reason and is fine again minutes later. If my car ran as unreliable like the internet I'd have it in or junk it.

By the way https://www.shutterstock.com/blog/new-artist-submission-system new system allows uploads of video and images together, finally I see a reason they dropped it on us. Give it some time.

And yes, to you too, they should have tested better to start with.

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Quote from: jonbull on November 09, 2017, 13:19

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popular images...images with zero sales...all my best performers are gone from popular....i smells something very bad...not a case i have 10 dl only today....

every time they changes and screw something i'm f..u up....


note: best match has the images who once were under the popular tab in the same order....

Here too! Images with 0 downloads are on the top Popular page :S

Ditto and about 600 are gone. they better come back or Im gonna go ballistic. Most popular is now least Popular.

Also, color in Photos is wacky Over saturated.

Check your monitor, check your eyes, check in with your doctor if the colors all look wacky. Or just have another martini and kick up your feet. It will be better tomorrow and broken again the day after. What is this, the first time the whole site has gone nuts? We should all be used to this by now. Are you surprised anymore when your computer locks and shuts down? When the web goes dead? When you get a site not found or 404 error?

It's not abnormal it's the usual.

The whole popular change is somebody reversing the > and that's just like computers and programming, isn't it? Tomorrow it will be back to crazy with best images somewhere near the front, but nonsense. Why do we care when it's irrational and changes by the hour or day? Then changes back to something just as stupid. 

It worked for a week or two, that's different.

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brasilnut is starting to annoy me.

I'm out.

Best of luck to everybody.

And I'm just wondering what's taking my rejection so long? I mean that. I thought I'd apply just to see but I'm pretty sure they want models, lifestyle, trendy artistic, stylish, no bright typical micro. I'm none of that, but still, I thought it made sense to at least apply and hope? I'd look forward to sending them the more artistic works and not waste time with the same on Micro.

The portfolio is back, the crybabies can dry their handkerchiefs ...

Not mine, I'm still dripping and soggy.  I have one page for my entire portfolio. No matter which sort I click it's the same page. Oh wait, it's back, all I needed to do was wait a few minutes. But best match is now popular, best sellers first, popular is some bizzaro collection of never sold images, new is actually new. Two out of three ain't bad. Meat Loaf is dead. SS is just broken again, like usual. 

In protest I'm not uploading anything new, until tonight or tomorrow. That will have them scared. I bet they quake in fear at the NY office when anyone says, I'm never uploading again, and then an hour later is crying about how their latest 40 uploads didn't work right. 

Quote from: YadaYadaYada on November 08, 2017, 10:37

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on November 07, 2017, 13:49

Complaining about badly designed software, software with bugs or the fact that instead of paying for a set of decent QA people, SS hopes contributors will do their QA for free is perfectly reasonable.

Doesn't matter what the year is.

SS is a public company that takes the lion's share of what buyers pay them to run an agency. For that lion's share they need to do their job, competently. Contributors can certainly report the odd bug, but it sounds from the SS forum posts as if this unasked for feature update isn't ready for alpha testing.

This isn't some cooperative project where we all pitch in - and if it ever was, it has long, long since ceased to be. Suggesting we should all just chill strikes me as dismissive and rude.

Have a little patients is not the same as chill. The same editor that people were in an uproar over and threatening to leave in 2011 is not the one that some have said, bring back the old editor or I'm not uploading anything. Just seems like we've been through this before and the final product was better. Of course I agree, we are the testers and anyone with 2c worth of brains at HQ would have foreseen some of the obvious flaws.

I like the larger preview, but it makes the page unmanageable. We shouldn't have to scroll down to see what we're doing and what's necessary for the image. Everything line by file worked fine. Keyword suggestions are a joke. The spelling error, click for each one, is terrible. Overall someone who did the programming, has probably never submitted an image.

Now they are asking for help and what to change and some of the same loudest complainers are saying, nope, I'm not going to help them. Same loud complainers who say I'm not uploading unless you bring back the old system, are writing daily about how the new editor doesn't work, as they are uploading. Which is it? Just can't win?

If they ask me what to improve I'd be happy to tell them and help all of us get a better interface completed sooner.

So are you on the forums pointing out all the flaws in order to be helpful? Or just here snarking at the people who actually are on the forums pointing things out? If  you'd be happy to tell them and help all of us get a better interface completed sooner, go for it. They're on the forums responding to comments. Maybe if you're loud enough they'll email you and invite you to waste time on the phone with them.

yes I am, are you pleased now?

If you aren't part of the solution then you are part of the problem. It's one thing to complain and point out what's wrong, but another to offer helpful advise how they should fix those problems. I'm doing that for the rest of us who have to put up with this new editor torture, hopefully to make it work better, sooner.

Complaining about badly designed software, software with bugs or the fact that instead of paying for a set of decent QA people, SS hopes contributors will do their QA for free is perfectly reasonable.

Doesn't matter what the year is.

SS is a public company that takes the lion's share of what buyers pay them to run an agency. For that lion's share they need to do their job, competently. Contributors can certainly report the odd bug, but it sounds from the SS forum posts as if this unasked for feature update isn't ready for alpha testing.

This isn't some cooperative project where we all pitch in - and if it ever was, it has long, long since ceased to be. Suggesting we should all just chill strikes me as dismissive and rude.

Have a little patients is not the same as chill. The same editor that people were in an uproar over and threatening to leave in 2011 is not the one that some have said, bring back the old editor or I'm not uploading anything. Just seems like we've been through this before and the final product was better. Of course I agree, we are the testers and anyone with 2c worth of brains at HQ would have foreseen some of the obvious flaws.

I like the larger preview, but it makes the page unmanageable. We shouldn't have to scroll down to see what we're doing and what's necessary for the image. Everything line by file worked fine. Keyword suggestions are a joke. The spelling error, click for each one, is terrible. Overall someone who did the programming, has probably never submitted an image.

Now they are asking for help and what to change and some of the same loudest complainers are saying, nope, I'm not going to help them. Same loud complainers who say I'm not uploading unless you bring back the old system, are writing daily about how the new editor doesn't work, as they are uploading. Which is it? Just can't win?

If they ask me what to improve I'd be happy to tell them and help all of us get a better interface completed sooner.

Don't forget they are trying to improve the site for us, the long term effect should be making our editing better. They didn't just throw this out to keep the website staff busy on some useless project. At least that's my hope. 

Too early to say since month's first week started with a weekend in the middle. So far looks like all the rest, and wait until the really slow months come after the holiday season. Dip in 2013 but higher every year since then. This year will probably be lower than 2016 because of a big SOD last Nov. Throws the numbers off for what's the usual. Dec is higher than Nov every year except 2012. Just wait for January?

Well someone had to start this thread, now let the screaming begin. So far I like it and no they don't have to ask us before they change their site.

It uses the computer vision technology for keyword suggestions, which I have a feeling is not an improvement, but from what we've seen a good joke. The suggestions are rolling in, besides where to stick it and something about never seeing the Sun. Best one is showing all the data so we don't need to scroll to see all about a submission. Work in progress.

Did most of us get over the front page and map change enough to enjoy the new look? I think the new editor is going to be easier and faster, once they get it sorted out better. Now about the whole site, submission lags, ftp errors, upload errors and sales. Things that actually matter?

MD5 and SHA1 are algorithms that are used to create unique codes to identify files. If the same file is uploaded to a web site a second time, it would have the same unique code, and the same file size, so they would be able to swiftly identify exact duplicates, and prevent someone from uploading a file that someone else has already uploaded.

in addition, it prevents a contributor from accidentally uploading the same file a second time.

Really, that's how a file hash prevents someone from making any small change and creating a new file which has a different fingerprint? Flip the image, alter the lighting, reduce the size 1 pixel?

The MD5 algorithm is intended for digital signature applications, where a large file must be "compressed" in a secure manner before being encrypted with a private (secret) key under a public-key cryptosystem such as RSA.

I disagree with your claim that this would stop duplicates or thieves. Also if there was such an easy answer it would already be in use to prevent us from uploading our own duplicates. I don't think so.

Can't you claim it back on your Japanese tax return?  In the US there is a place to get a credit back for foreign tax paid - that's what I do with foreign taxes.  I would assume you can do the same in Japan but have no idea how it actually works there.

Yes before that gets lost, that's what I do for the UK taxes. Easier to just deduct from my income instead of filing some long complicated seven page form that has to go to the IRS and then when they approve it gets mailed to the place making payments in the UK. Credit for foreign taxes.

Clearly, the increase in beautiful women jumping is lagging behind.

I know where that came from, like people alone smiling at their salad.