They're rolling it out gradually. Lucky us in the northeastern U.S. got hit with it first.

As far as I can tell they didn't actually fix any of the issues, just changed the entire thing and made if much more difficult for the heck of it.

It's worse than adobe. Twice as slow as before, with multiple clicks and scrolls to see anything, a lot of stuff hidden, you have to guess where to click to find it, no indication any longer if a file is a vector (for those of us who submit vectors). Clearly the IT guys thought it would be cool to add popup windows, hidden access to important features, lots of scrolling, etc., and did not consult a single contributor about whether any of it made sense.

Meanwhile the problems they've had for many months have not been solved. I still have to upload everything four times because most of the files disappear upon uploading, still get the same stupid error messages about not uploading a matching jpg, and now when there's an error you get a popup that just tells you there's an error but not what the error is...you have to click the popup to see the error and then click it again to get back to editing. No more seeing everything at a glance, you have to click a stupid button to edit more than one image at a time...I think these guys were high when creating this and thought of it as a video game, with secret hidden chambers and levels and surprises around every corner, mwaaa ha ha haaaaa.

I always wondered why SS wouldn't let you edit and resubmit images. Their review process is so scattershot that now I automatically upload everything twice there so I have backups uploaded and keyworded just in case. Saves a lot of time and aggravation.

Many times you can just resubmit as is and they'll accept it, because the rejection reason was pure nonsense to meet some rejection quota or something.

Truly disgusting. The CEOs of these companies make millions, but want to pay you $10 for a custom photo.

I hope this dies a quick death.

I wrote to their registrar, who just emailed me the site owner's contact information, supposedly. So here you go:

Nguyen Thi Phuong
AFD
B030803 CC GoldHouse Nha Be
TPHCM Not Applicable 08408
Vietnam

PH:+84.904386367
EM:

Interesting that some people knew that before we did...and they purposely upload the exact number that takes over the entire page.

The seller will be able to charge $3.5 (for example) for the same image earning $1.25 more ($.35 goes to the platform) while the buyer will pay $1.5 less (30%) not to mention the fact that they will not have to purchase in bulk. This kind of microtransaction is only possible through the blockchain technology we are currently building. If you do the same with paypal or credit card, the transaction fee alone will be more than $.35 leaving the middle man with nothing. That is how we will have an advantage in terms of costs and value proposition that can be used in our marketing campaigns.

1. These kinds of "microtransactions" are possible in a million different ways.

2. Nobody wants buyers to get used to paying even less for images than they do now.

3. Who cares about the middleman?

Is anyone else still having trouble uploading, or is it only me? I can't get anything through since yesterday.

I'm in an advertising FB group, and some graphics guy shared an article about the free sites, including Freepik, which stole a bunch of my vectors and made them available for free. I explained that they stole my work and the work of many others, and everyone should do themselves a favor and just use legit sites and pay for a license. His response? "It's still helpful, tho." Asshat.

Acceptance of every image, no matter how redundant, so the site is flooded with similar crud. Pushing newer contributors up in the search and burying established contributors to maximize profits. And competition from free sites. I see more and more businesses using photos from free photo sites for their social media every day. That's killing our sub sales.

Yeah, I got a couple yesterday.