Several diverse, happy teens, plus E.T. all jumping in the air on a green grass hill with blue sky overhead for copy space. That's the money shot.   

Wrong again. All of my images are rated as "Green". I went ahead and manually checked. But if you would like to see for yourself -

http://dpstockphotos.com/image/disney-world-boardwalk-area-jellyrolls/

Pretty awesome looking Preview Image, is it not?

I just don't get you. The problem manifested itself with the 2.6.5 upgrade. Images which uploaded fine and generated Preview Images prior to the upgrade, no longer generate Previews if uploaded again. And yet you continue to blame the user? You don't get it. I haven't changed anything. I haven't even touched my SY since the end of July. The only change was to upgrade, at which point Image Previews no longer were generated. You don't have to figure it out...I really don't care. I'm not wasting any more time dealing with this theme.

Two threads which describe the same exact problem:

http://www.microstockgroup.com/symbiostock-general/no-preview-image-with-uploaded-jpg/
http://www.microstockgroup.com/symbiostock-technical-support/image-pages-with-no-images/

I haven't had the ability to generate preview images since the 2.6.5 upgrade, so I am moving to a different selling platform. But you might want to help Neilr with this issue.

that was my post a little earlier.  I don't want to be down on Sybiostock, it looks like ot could produce a good library free sales solution for me,  but there o seem to be a lot of people citing what really, seem to be some prety fundemental issues,  Should i hang tight and see what happens or seek out an alternative (if there is one)

There are alternatives, but they all have issues. KTools is pretty well established. I understand the SEO with the latest version is improved. There are a few other Wordpress options. Sean posted a link to one of them a few months ago, but honestly none of them looked very good.

Photoshelter is yet another option. Their biggest complaint is that images never show up with decent rankings, if at all, in Google. But the web pages look slick, and there are very easy options for teaming up with other contributors to form "virtual agencies". They must be doing something right, because there are some very successful and talented photographers selling there who have been there a long time.

Symbiostock holds the most promise of all the current platforms, imo. But there are plenty of issues, as you have discovered.

I knew it wouldn't take long. Here is the second report of an image page with no preview image -

http://www.microstockgroup.com/symbiostock-general/no-preview-image-with-uploaded-jpg/

I am using the out of the box Symbiostock theme, updated to the latest version. The blog page has never worked, so you are absolutely wrong about that. Leo has even acknowledged that it doesn't work. If you think I am wrong, click on my blog page and count the number of posts.

http://dpstockphotos.com/155-2/photography-and-design-blog/

I'll save you some time. It's 59. Even though I have the max posts per page set at 6, it's still 59. It's a disaster, and I stopped blogging because of it.

Search is terrible. Searching for single terms doesn't even return all the results, and yes I have checked and double checked. Binary searches don't work at all. I realized that the KTools search was insufficient, so I paid a few hundred bucks for a good coder to write our own search function. It wasn't up to the standards of the top micros, but I can tell you that it worked as intended. If you are serious about this project, pass around a hat and raise some money to hire a coder. You need a legitimate, working search to be taken seriously.

I have never altered the Symbiostock code. Take a quick look at the Technical Support forum and you will see countless threads about image processing and uploading problems, dating back to day 1. Why suggest that when people have problems, it must be related to their own code changes? Consider yourself fortunate to not have run into similar problems. But when you do, what then? There seem to be no answers as to why people on the same hosts with the unaltered Symbiostock and Child Theme are running into significant issues, whereas others aren't. But once you find your images won't upload properly whether you use FTP or the form uploader, you are pretty much at a dead end.

I've put my effort in here. I have posted 59 blog articles, and done plenty of network promotion. If the code doesn't work out-of-the-box, then I'm not going to jump through hoops figuring out why.

No, the process page reacts fine.

I've never gotten this theme to work out of the box, and I'm no longer interested in fighting to get things to work properly. I'll just delete the recent failed uploads and move on to different projects.

Wow.  I'm starting to remember why I usually steer clear of MSG these days.

People are moaning about the drop in revenue but I bet your selling on Shutterstock and happy with your 25 a day sales!

I actually have a higher RPD with SS than I do with IS. Which I never would have believed possible just last year.

I'm seeing a slowdown at SS too. It's simple mathematics. My old material continues to sell, but at a predictably lower rate (off by 5 or 10% since last year) because so much new material has been added. But my new images don't sell, at all. So there is no way for me to maintain income, and no longer incentive to upload.

Because name brands attract real people to BS about whatever. Why? I have no idea. I can't see myself ever becoming a social media "fan" of Coke so I can talk nonsense about liking their product. But enough people do, and that's where your numbers come from.

With all of the R&D that Google can afford, I'm absolutely certain they figured out years ago how to tell if a company is scheming social media to make themselves look more viable than they really are.

My advice is, don't do it. If you do, it's your $5 and your reputation, not mine.

Important stuff. I wrote an article for Designmodo which found similar trends -

http://designmodo.com/reducing-cart-abandonment/

Check out fiverr.com  - you can buy likes.

Do NOT do this. Despite claims to the otherwise, most of your likes will either be inactive accounts or worse. It is theorized that Google looks at your social activity to determine your own quality -

1) If you have say 50 followers, and they are actively engaged with you, it is seen as a small positive.
2) If you have 5000 followers, and they hardly ever engage with you if at all, then it is pretty obvious you acquired them in an underhanded way. If you acquire low quality followers, then it is likely you too are low quality. So you get punished in search results.

There is occasional talk about this on MOZ and Performancing. Don't do this. It's the worst possible advice you can follow.

Just set a "Read more" tag after a short intro text to direct the viewers to the full content page. This way you will only have teasers on the blog roll page. When somebody wants to read the full article then he can click the headline of the post to get to it.

Yeah I do something similar on my main Front page. If I have a new blog article to highlight, I manually create an entry on my front page giving a summary type preview of the post, and then "Read More" to click to the full post. But that doesn't save the Page of Posts problem, which unfortunately people will find and attempt to read. I've considered taking down my link to the Page of Posts, but I don't want to eliminate the links to the posts themselves and cause Google to wonder why they are "hidden".

Another frustration is that the popular Taxonomy Related Posts plug-in just doesn't work with Symbiostock. If you want to keep people on your website, then after they finish reading a post they are interested in, you show them related material that they can click to. I use that plug-in on all my blogs, but it won't work with SY. I have found that people visit 40% to 50% more pages with the Related Posts than without it.