Is this a joke? Canva is a toy, its market share is insignificant, its user base almost entirely consists of hobbyists, mostly girls.
It's irrelevant in the professional design scene and Adobe likely wouldn't acquire it if it was free.

Figma is mostly used by UX/UI designers, in fact it's the industry standard in the UX field. It can be linked to a plethora of enterprise grade productivity apps, from Slack to Confluence to whatever.

Where did you even get the idea that they might be competitors?

Matter of fact, the more interesting question is, what happens to XD. It's not realistic to think that they'd keep maintaining two very similar apps in their portfolio. They either drop XD, which is the more likely scenario given that XD has fallen way behind Figma in popularity, or they lied about their long term plans and at some point discontinue Figma. Neither scenario would be a surprise.

if you're a current contributor, that may well get your contributor account closed. They can do that at any time, for any or no reason.

Thanks for the advice but I'm obviously no longer a contributor, I removed my portfolio when they introduced the �10/image plan. I wish I hadn't signed up at all.

How is it not fraud that you have no membership with them, no affiliation whatsoever, you have deleted your account a long ago and they keep charging you for services they cannot and will not render? What am I actually buying from them? What am I paying for?

Anyways I did cancel the * plan before quitting and today I put an end to this. I talked to their chat guy who said he stopped it. And I also emailed their privacy dept to make sure they removed all my data. But I don't want to write it off, I'm going to contact some lawyers. I know it will add to my misery but fuck it. I just can't accept that this is OK by US law, or any law for that matter, that you charge a non-existing client indefinitely for services you know you'll never render.

Well I see that you started to build your portfolio pretty much a year ago or so. When I started with this i uploaded two photos one evening just to see the process. In the morning I had like 15 sales. 11 on one photo and 4 on second one. By the end of the month I was over 200$ or so. Anyway...

Looking from that perspective you jumped into a niche that was long time dead and you started burning your time for pennies. And still people answered you when you joined the forum and they didn't tell you stuff like forget it , you cant make it now and it has been pointed many times that you shouldn't even start, out best earners are old images that are holding positions for years, new stuff dont sell etc.

If you dont have something positive to help avoid throwing negativism which was as you say pointed many times. He knows that and he doesn't need to hear that.

Every huge success story was almost impossible in the beginning and there is for sure a scenario where he can succeed. No one ever succeeded without believing. The chances are not great but they exist for sure.

Right, but i wasn�t talking about contributing. I knew it was dead before i signed up. I read a lot of forums and blogs before submitting a single image. It�s sort of a hobby and i didn�t set any business goals for myself.

I was talking about starting a new agency, which is a totally different proposition. I have nothing against big dreams. But you have to be realistic. I genuinely wish you�d succeeded, and if you did i�d sign up with your agency � if you take me . However, all those dollar boys sitting on the boards of the various big enterprises like SS are not plain stupid. If they can�t come up with a meaningful idea to unfcuk the system, i doubt you guys will, just out of the blue. And by the time you build up something from scratch, this whole revolution will run out of breath. It takes years to earn the trust of both buyers and sellers. Top contributors are outraged because they all of a sudden lose a significant part of their income. You think they�ll still all be waiting when your shiny new agency rolls out? I might be stupid to economics but i fail to see how you�d get some traction and market share in the current business environment.

Dreams are sweet. Business plans that work � a different story.

I use Huawei Mate 10 which has a Leica camera.

No, it doesn't. Huawei just licenses the label. A Leica camera is a very different thing. As a matter of fact, the lenses are plastic and are made by neither Huawei nor Leica but a noname Asian mass manufacturer. Just google it.

But if the IQ is acceptable to you, this all shouldn't be a concern.

Great initiative, but with all the awesome free WP themes out there, i'm surprised this is the best you can put out. Normally i wouldn't bother trashing someone else's design, but we are talking about a gathering of creative people here. Although i suspect this is a one man army for now, with very litte UX and design background. The logo is also not quite professional, to put it mildly.

There's no content whatsoever but the post about the FB gag that's spreading here, so you might want to work on the content part too, before going live. In the current state, the site isn't very likely to earn any credibility.

I really don't understand this attitude.

I'm a fellow SS contributor who's also affected by this cut of royalty, but i still fail to see how SS is responsible for the current economic hardships of that alleged single mother or anyone else here. SS is a business not a charity. We are not employees, we are just contracted freelancers, and SS as an organization has zero responsibility towards us. They never made any promises and you are free to terminate your contract any time. The only reason you don't is because the rest of the agencies are just as crap or worse. A few agencies who are committed to fair trade, like pond5 or alamy, don't sell sh*, so it doesn't matter that they give you 40 to 60% of nothing. SS remained the only big one that actually sells and now it's gone too. I don't count istock/getty. The business landscape keeps shifting.

Let's face it: creating stock is a skill of very little added value, at least according to the market. No one cares how long it took you to learn photography and how much you spent on gear. Photography is extremely hard to sell even outside stock, otherwise we wouldn't bother selling for 20 cents a pop. As for me, i just stopped uploading and don't care any more.

It's not SS management's mistake that the single mother failed to obtain more marketable skills. We are all free to move on. Why would you rely on a single source of income, especially if it's known to be very unreliable? 

Guys, thanks for your input. I think I'll just take it all down.

Steve, same here. Alamy/Stephansdom. As it seems, the holy folks are pretty determined to enforce their no-photo policy. They scan agencies regurarly for stolen indoor shots and if they find one, they immediately issue a takedown notice. Too bad, those images do pretty well actually.

The algorithm may take your inactivity into account. At least that's my experience but i might be totally wrong. When i take a longer break from uploading (weeks, months) all sales dry up, but when i upload stuff again, my images start selling too. Since i have a tiny portfolio the difference is not significant but noticeable.

You don't have to do the keywording in Alamy, embedded IPTC data is taken over. I think the supertag method is way superior to AS, where you have to manually move your top 10 keywords to the top of the list. If you have thousands of images, this is a nearly impossible task � and i have yet to find a DAM that doesn't sort keywords in alphabetic order, whether you want it or not.

I upload almost exclusively editorial (newsworthy events) to Alamy but it's been always very slow for me, it's not worth my time. However they are one of the very few fair agencies, portfolio management is convenient, rejection rate is very low (in fact i never had any, as opposed to AS or SS), so i'll just keep uploading. If sales were somewhat better over there, i'd say they are the best agency hands down.

No evidence just a gut feeling. I might even be wrong, since my port is admittedly too small to be considered as representative sample. It's just that the low but steady sales dried up all of a sudden, and i've been totally invisible for over 10 days now on SS. Doesn't make a difference though, i'm lightyears away from making a buck off of micro anyway.

Same thing is happening to me, although my port is very small, only 300+ images. But i usually have a download or two almost every day. Past week is the absolute low so far.