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Agency Based Discussion => Shutterstock.com => Topic started by: Sean Locke Photography on July 15, 2015, 06:57
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The SS forums have been down for a couple of days, right? It's not just something I'm seeing?
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This was a scheduled maintenance thing. They announced it a week or so back - maybe longer. They are supposed to be down all this week.
We'll see what the "new and improved" forum will be like.
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I would rather see them spend time and effort to fix the broken review system they have
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This was a scheduled maintenance thing. They announced it a week or so back - maybe longer. They are supposed to be down all this week.
We'll see what the "new and improved" forum will be like.
Thanks. Somehow I missed that.
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SS still has forums? I thought all the important discussion was here!
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Interesting. Istock moves their community to the invisible inside and SS reworks their forums.
I never really followed the SS forums, i don't know if it was the layout that was confusing or what was going on wasn't that exciting, so let's see what they do.
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...I never really followed the SS forums, i don't know if it was the layout that was confusing or what was going on wasn't that exciting,...
I used to participate a very long time ago, but they were largely unmoderated and the place was chaotic. It was very hard to avoid the professional time wasters - I even once had someone ask me to edit his picture for him (after I'd given some advice on editing to someone else)!
To me, the wild west of the SS forums illustrated the importance of gentle moderation (Rob Sylvan is still my hero in that department) if you want to have a useful community. The issues, IMO, had to do with the absence of the right staff, not anything to do with the forum software.
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Rob Sylvan is my hero too. He is the best community builder I have seen here in stockworld. Obviously, I donīt know all forums, but Rob and Andrew (rogermexico) where extremely good.
You need people like that, people who really reach out and thrive on working with people. Like building a city, someone needs to set the tone, invite people in, someone who cares.
You canīt create the vibe with an app or a layout.
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I really miss Uncle Rob.
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Rob Sylvan is my hero too. He is the best community builder I have seen here in stockworld. Obviously, I donīt know all forums, but Rob and Andrew (rogermexico) where extremely good.
You need people like that, people who really reach out and thrive on working with people. Like building a city, someone needs to set the tone, invite people in, someone who cares.
You canīt create the vibe with an app or a layout.
+100. Two classy men. So different from Lobo.
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It's back.
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Every link in the new forum that I tried to open, timed out. Does not look to be functional at the moment.
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The connection was reset
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
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Every link in the new forum that I tried to open, timed out. Does not look to be functional at the moment.
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The connection was reset
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
In the upper right corner is another login link. Even though I was already logged in to the main site, I had to click that link. I didn't actually have to log in, it just opened the pages so I could get access to them. I don't know if this will be required every time or just this once. We'll just have to wait and see.
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Perhaps they're also moving over to the new Getty Forum.
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They all seem accessible now. Don't like them at all. Don't plan on being in there much at all now.
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They have up and down votes for posts, and what are warning points?
They seem to want to go social - friends, friends' comments on your profile, show who your friends are....
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still doesn't work for me...
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They have up and down votes for posts, and what are warning points?
They seem to want to go social - friends, friends' comments on your profile, show who your friends are....
As if it were not clicky enough. I can see the main site, but the links still time out, even when trying w7lwi tip. Thanks for that by the way, but still not working for me.
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I think it looks good, the layout is certainly much easier to read than before. now let's see what they do with it :)
ETA: I love the critique forum. I really can see this working well. The preview images are really helpful,so you can instantly click on the image that you are interested in.
This forum goes very deep, looks like they spent a lot of time thinking about it. And they will probably adapt it based on user responses.
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I'm not crazy about it, and I hate the colorblindness test (AKA gray and red logo) appearing everywhere, but I hardly ever go there, so whatevs. I think the time and money to overhaul it could have been better spent elsewhere.
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New forum is quite disappointing. Who needs bazillion of categories, most of them are unnecessary. Big Brother is watching my every step, I cant even view a thread without my username being displayed there. And do we really need to know other contributors birthday...? Then we have something called "Reputation" here, the one who gets more positive votes wins a cookie.... I think Im too old for this :-\
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Disappointing, showing little regard for existing users with little customization beyond the existing forum package set up.
The areas that most contributors visit often, are located at the bottom of the main page. And the thread content that they threw in various categories does not match their forum content descriptions. Looks like they did not even read the threads and just threw them around willynilly. Pathetic how little regard they had for the content in recent forum conversations.
The new forum could have used a good Interaction and Interface Designer. The critique forum is a complete mess. What were they thinking??? Did they give it any thought at all?
The one area that looks like some thought has been put behind it, is the New Contributor Support Center. Once again resources and care are spent attracting and encouraging new contributors. http://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/75193-visit-our-new-contributor-support-center/ (http://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/75193-visit-our-new-contributor-support-center/)
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They all seem accessible now. Don't like them at all. Don't plan on being in there much at all now.
I used to check the SS forum on a daily basis and even found some relevant info at times but lately it's just a quick sweep. Now it even seems I have good reason to not check it at all, time better spent elsewhere anyway.
If there's a big change somewhere I'm sure someone on MSG will post about it so I can adapt to the situation. That is all I care about anymore in this business.
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won't log in. cleared cache, everything. reset connection window.
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won't log in. cleared cache, everything. reset connection window.
Hey Laurin. Welcome home. Dave said you got back from the hospital last night. What can't you log in to? site, new forum or ???
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They have up and down votes for posts, and what are warning points?
They seem to want to go social - friends, friends' comments on your profile, show who your friends are....
From what I see, you only get to see your own 'warnings'. Others are not visibly displayed.
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won't log in. cleared cache, everything. reset connection window.
How you feeling Laurin?
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Still can't get in to the forum.
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Still can't get in to the forum.
ya have to Log in again. worked for me.
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won't log in. cleared cache, everything. reset connection window.
How you feeling Laurin?
Surprized im alive actually. was supposed to have Open Heart surgery. Then I get an infection in the hospital. Now operation is a month away. I posted the story on SS, Quite scary what can happen..
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I didn't notice the sign in at the top. Hope you are better soon Laurin.
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Didn't go there much before, will go there less now. Simple forum turned confusing for no reason.
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Am I right in understanding that in the Critique system now you have to look at the photo first - and then see what the question is? And 100% crops?
Am not liking this new forum......it's slow and just too cumbersome.
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won't log in. cleared cache, everything. reset connection window.
Hey Laurin. Welcome home. Dave said you got back from the hospital last night. What can't you log in to? site, new forum or ???
All good now. Just cant do a avatar or find a way to look at someones port.
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What happened to the critique forum? It looks at lot less useful now to me.
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won't log in. cleared cache, everything. reset connection window.
Hey Laurin. Welcome home. Dave said you got back from the hospital last night. What can't you log in to? site, new forum or ???
All good now. Just cant do a avatar or find a way to look at someones port.
If you click on the avatar square you get the option to change it, not being able to look at people's ports is a pain.
Maybe we need to put our port links in a signatures.
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won't log in. cleared cache, everything. reset connection window.
Hey Laurin. Welcome home. Dave said you got back from the hospital last night. What can't you log in to? site, new forum or ???
All good now. Just cant do a avatar or find a way to look at someones port.
If you click on the avatar square you get the option to change it, not being able to look at people's ports is a pain.
Maybe we need to put our port links in a signatures.
Correct. Just did that. getting easier but still Missing some key elements. Folks are totally confused as to how to ask and post for a critique. I offered my E-mail to send Images if need be till it gets worked out. many using it.
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The forums I try to browse all hang up. Time out errors. I can't read anything on them anymore.
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I can't view them because my 6 month ban has been five years so far.
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I can't view them because my 6 month ban has been five years so far.
The last 5 years wouldn't take long to summarise.
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I can't view them because my 6 month ban has been five years so far.
The last 5 years wouldn't take long to summarise.
Correct.
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Where is ANYTHING goes? I can't find it anymore.
That is the only forum I go to. I guess I will be on this site now. I liked the old style better.
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Called shutterchat Now.Critique forum is a mess. I only have a certain amount of time. Taking to long.
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my guess is that forum maintenance was more important than fixing the search, make reviews accountable, address contributors concern,etc.. is to do a complete whitewash of the papertrail to the moon regarding the objections . now the
shareholders contributors cannot even find those threads to make it even longer to reach the other side of the universe ;D
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Are they even working right?
I can only access them if I am logged out of SS. If I am logged in they just time out.
And when I am able to see them no matter what term I search for I get an error.
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Actually, I just noticed I can get in if I go up to Insights and click on Forum. If I click the links under Announcements then those just time out unless I'm logged out.
The search still doesn't work though. I always get this message:
One or all of your search keywords were below 4 characters or you searched for words which are not allowed, such as 'html', 'img', etc, please increase the length of these search keywords or choose different keywords.