the best thing I've read in this thread is that they will no longer marketing DPC.

When something changes in positive way I always try to emphasize that as well as when it's other way around.

So, keep on good work and positive changes for contributors Fotolia/Adobe team, get rid of DPC if you can(more buyers on ft/adobe stock) and count on my vector illustrations and photos for a long time!

After DPC thing (it wasn't a deal) I almost deleted my portfolio, but when you made option to exclude my portfolio I stayed.

I wish you win the market battle against all agencies that pay contributors less commission compared to you.

For me upload works perfectly fine.

When you upload photos and processing is finished, there is a message "no photos in upload queue". Just click NEXT then.

nope, doesn't work. I contacted them and they are aware of this issue, tried to upload again today and still nothing. it's for about 5 days now

i have uploaded about 30 images today, they are not in upload queue, incomplete, rejected, accepted or all images tab.

Last week my photos got stuck in upload queue, but today I can't find them anywhere.

You are funny! Kuddos to the Town of Korčula!

Since there are plenty of poor countries where slavery has been common practice for centuries, it will only be fair from you, (before saying cya ), to revisit your logic about slavery being the reason behind the developed countries' success (instead of a sustainable economical model).

To a certain extent it is the other way around: the economical success and technological progress made even the free brute manual labor too expensive.

I never said it was the only reason but it helped in some way, also I never said communism or socialism are better systems, far from that, they are/were worse and history is proof of that. But there is no real and complete democracy nor real neoliberal capitalism at all, and also I said I think it is even better that country we are paying our taxes for, take care in some way of minimum rights for workers.

There are/were many private companies here that haven't payed their workers for several months, desperate people continues to work cause it was told to them it will be next month, next, next and so on... There is new law recently (my English isn't the best) but if you don't pay your workers for some period, goodbye to your company, and with money from sold company properties it is able to pay workers what can be payed.

It need to be some kind of justice/law/order.

Goodbye, better to start working and shooting, you can't change my mind nor I can change yours. This is wasting time arguing. This is Internet in it's best

Unfortunately, your claim about slavery being one of the reason behind the prosperity of the "developed economies" comes straight from the communist party manual.

Mind you that slavery was widespread in Africa itself (and to some extend it still is, in some areas).
It didn't help African countries to become prosperous.
Even if the communist party manual doesn't tell it to you

As for immigration, yes, this definitely helps the economy. But the economy has first to be attractive and healthy, for immigrants do take their chances and come in and contribute to further growth. Who would want to immigrate in an unstable country or were basic freedoms are not respected?

First of all, it looks like you are extremely obsessed with communism. I was 6 years old when it was all over in my country (even in the last 10 years, or 4 years before my birth, it wasn't communism at all anymore), and none of my parents were ever in any kind of communist party. So telling me what communist told me is offensive and funny in the same time. Even more, when I was growing up, everything about communism was absolutely negatively presented in culture, school, everywhere, because my country was in war with ex communist.

From my facts, you change the story to communism, because you don't have any answers.

About slavery in Africa, for who does those slaves worked for? For African people or for colonialist? Where that money go?

But I don't want to change this topic to that. I want to tell you that you really dont have much clue what is going on in this part of world.

If your absolutely free economy with no minimum wages or any rights to workers ever come true, we will see slavery again, working for food and bed, big fish (companies) eating smaller ones and we will see one corporation or one family own entire world or something like that. That sounds fair to you?

I would really like to know what books did you read about situation in Eastern Europe but I would not ask you I already know it was from the cold-war times and from western authors. It's the big problem when one side of the story some want to present as facts.

Also, gypsies in my country had more rights compared to african american people in USA in the same period of history.

Belive me, I know better than you think and it is not from the media.
The socialists economies were not able to compete with market driven economies. This is why all those painful re-adjustments were necessary.
And the corruption that followed, has been enabled exactly because the free market economy was not in place. There was no respect for property because the whole economy has been previously nationalized. Factories were sold for pennies to corupt politicians because they didn't belong to anyone.

What do you think about governments of countries with so called free market economies helps private banks with tax money?

Do you think there is any real free market economy in the world without any interfering from the government? Name few if you can please

What happened is that all economies were crippled by the centralized planning, when some bureaucrats belived that they know better what people need, than people themselves, they belived they can set prices and wages better than the market itself. What happened was a lack of basic goods and a flourishing black market. People stop using money because it didn't have any value, directly trading services or  goods (a lot of them stolen from their workplaces  because everything belonged to everybody and nobody at the same time)

In which Eastern European country do you live?

capitalism was over at the exact same moment when government used tax payer's money to save big private banks.

unfortunately we still don't have good system to replace it. socialism was much more unfair and was over long long time ago.

Depends of what you shoot.

If it has to be Canon and full frame, then 6D is solid option

If it only has to be full frame, Nikon d610 is much better (dynamic range, noise)

If it doesn't have to be full frame, then Pentax k-3 or Nikon d7100

I also got my payment

Is there any way to find out how much is deducted from taxes? Some kind of payment history?

I'm not seeing that. All of my vectors are still priced at 100 credits for Extended XV.

are you bronze level?

they have changed all my vector extended prices from 80 credits to 30 (not 60 even it is new maximum price)

haven't sold any extended licences but very unhappy with this move.