I knew they were something else before, photorankr

We're working on some bugs still. Most large company websites have bugs and severe security issues, and we just released this into Beta, so please consider that.

Hope everyone enjoys the new site and considers joining. We're going to get to be the "the world's most popular photography network" eventually. We encourage feedback. So please respond or email us. We want to  make a great experience for photographers on the web.

Search is also very slow currently.
Probably it can't handle the 12 people that are currently viewing this topic and trying the site.

Looks nice. I'll keep it bookmarked to see how it develops.

Feedback I got from photographers was that they really wanted one ideal platform online for photographers. Why should photographers have to build their portfolio solution on one site, license their work on another, and socialize on another platform? Why can't they do it all on one platform, online? Why can�t photographers control their license types and price points?

In addition, the team is composed of four strong product-focused engineers. We�ve build some stunning portfolios, that we�ll only get better over time. Some photographers we�re really excited about SymbioStock. We�re actually even cheaper. For less than 10 dollars, we take care of all e-commerce and hosting. We�re the cheapest on the web. If you need a place just to display photos, that�s completely free.

To the OP: you started this topic, inviting prospective contributors to have a look. So I find the "it's just beta" comments a little defensive.

Your site is, IMO, not really ready for a public walk through, but given that you wanted us to look at the beta site, I'd suggest you just make a list of all the broken/missing/confusing things we found and use the feedback to your advantage.

http://stock.photorankr.com/terms.php

I found these terms while looking at the stock.coverspash.com link you pointed me to.

In addition to lots of references to photorankr, Campaign Tender, Success Fees  (which I assume are obsolete), you have nonsense like the following:

" "Model Release" "Image Provider Award Amount" means a written release signed by or on behalf of any living person or the estate of a deceased person who is depicted in whole or in part in any photographs; "

and

""Award Amount" or "we" means the amount to be paid by the Campaign Tender Holder for an image or images, as the case may be, as specified in a Campaign; "

The word "we" means an amount of money??

The stock site has lots of images with no keywords (tags) at all and very few on lots that I looked it. You probably should consider requiring some keywords before images go live on the site. For example, the image on your home page (which I assume is Santorini) isn't clickable and I couldn't find it searching for Santorini or Greece. If I liked it and wanted to buy it, I think it'd be a good idea to make that easier.

Some images are free - confusingly with three sizes all priced at $0.00 - and some are priced high enough that I think buyers would walk. It's good that you can sort results by price, both high to low and low to high.

It's good to be concerned about photographers, but if you're going to try to license images, you also need to make the site appeal to buyers - otherwise, what's the point? Right now, I'm not seeing anything that isn't already on many other sites already, so what do you think will bring buyers to you? Are you hoping that your contributors will market the site or are you planning to do that? Are you exercising any control over what's uploaded - technical quality, editing or ...? I'm assuming that you aren't - just looking at the images already on the site.

Have you given any thought to how a free-for-all collection with poor keywording, poor search and no new features might make a place for itself among the many other sites that currently license images?

There's not even any indication on the image details pages what I would paying money for.  It's just an image and some prices next to it.

Also,

If anyone wants a free site, for one year, (to take advantage of print provider and e-commerce solution), please PM me or email me at [email protected]. I will upgrade you directly.

Best.

Does anyone have any thoughts about the stories feature? This feature will hopefully be the best way for photographers to blog about their work online

"1. Your Own Website, Free Forever
When interviewed, coversplash co-founder Joe Laresca stated, �We want to do what�s right for the photographer, and not just squeeze every penny out of them like most sites do. That's why we chose to give every photographer their own free website, forever.""

Nothing is 'forever'.

How did you go from beta-not-ready-for-the-public, to ready for press release in a week?

I just tried that with a nice landscape from Yves Gagnon - a 4000 x 3000 pixel unwatermarked image was downloaded at a very high quality level - the image was about 5M as a JPEG.

Interesting approach to a photography website...

Steve

I also don�t understand the �Download Raw.� I don�t want people downloading my image unless they have licensed it. Why would they license it if they can download it for free? Unfortunately, most people would just steal it. Can this be disabled?

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@BD, please let us know any other changes. We encourage your feedback. We are in the process of adding the license descriptions.

Our mission is quite simply to create the most beautiful outlet to promote, share, and sell as a photographer. Flickr doesn't do e-commerce at all, personal sites, or licensing. We have all this on one platform on the web for photographers.