down in germany...

Quote from: HalfFull on October 19, 2016, 14:02

Quote from: Stockmaan on October 19, 2016, 10:35
It is morning ...

05:32
Wednesday, 19 October 2016 (GMT-4)
Time in New York, NY, USA

Please be patient, they must wake up first!!!

Midday here, they're a global company, operating in global markets..... do you think if it breaks it's left till the 1st guy arrives at the office in the morning... which ever morning you want to work to?!? Although there are times I do wonder 

You can't expect the hamster to get the big SS wheel turning before his first latte of the morning!

France
I download 4 pictures it 10 minutes ago.
There are 8 minutes ... rejection of 4 !!!

More failure

Wut?

I think he's french.

SS can't keep the site online, the upload facility frequently hangs and they can't reliably implement a map interface (it still periodically gets its knickers in a twist with z-indices) ....

But the conspiracy theorists believe the company can implement algorithms worthy of the Matrix to prevent, or encourage, their content to be seen or not seen at any given time 

Quote from: Pauws99 on October 19, 2016, 15:40

Quote from: HalfFull on October 19, 2016, 14:02

Quote from: Stockmaan on October 19, 2016, 10:35
It is morning ...

05:32
Wednesday, 19 October 2016 (GMT-4)
Time in New York, NY, USA

Please be patient, they must wake up first!!!

Midday here, they're a global company, operating in global markets..... do you think if it breaks it's left till the 1st guy arrives at the office in the morning... which ever morning you want to work to?!? Although there are times I do wonder 

You can't expect the hamster to get the big SS wheel turning before his first latte of the morning!

Haha... yeah, that sounds about right!

working fine here.

Come on people, every website can have problems. It's not the end of the world.

Quote from: Dreamframer on October 19, 2016, 18:09
Come on people, every website can have problems. It's not the end of the world.

Occasional problems isn't an issue but with SS it has become a permanent feature. I've lost count how many times it's been unavailable recently both as a buyer and seller! Bear in mind their competitors have had zero issues in comparison.

I'm not sure anyone thinks its the end of the world but its not great from a company that's meant to be the world leader to lose its only sales channel no matter how short. How long does it take for buyers to go somewhere else and think "h'mm this site looks pretty good I think I might stick with them"?

I am submitting to SS since 2008, and the only thing I see is growth. As long as I remember, SS was one of the agencies people criticize the most, but somehow they always hold a place of a bestseller. I didn't upload a single photo from 2010 to 2016 and my sales almost didn't drop at all. So, I believe they know what they are doing and I don't see them losing a battle anytime soon.

Regarding website problems, it happens, it's nothing unusual.

Quote from: Dreamframer on October 19, 2016, 18:23
I am submitting to SS since 2008, and the only thing I see is growth. As long as I remember, SS was one of the agencies people criticize the most, but somehow they always hold a place of a bestseller. I didn't upload a single photo from 2010 to 2016 and my sales almost didn't drop at all. So, I believe they know what they are doing and I don't see them losing a battle anytime soon.

Ha, ha.
And we all fell from the tree...

Quote from: Dreamframer on October 19, 2016, 18:23
I am submitting to SS since 2008, and the only thing I see is growth. As long as I remember, SS was one of the agencies people criticize the most, but somehow they always hold a place of a bestseller. I didn't upload a single photo from 2010 to 2016 and my sales almost didn't drop at all. So, I believe they know what they are doing and I don't see them losing a battle anytime soon.

Regarding website problems, it happens, it's nothing unusual.

Not bad, how many $k per month?!?

Same complacency as was the downfall of Istock  and many other businesses. Yes S Stock for a long time have been by far the best but I think many of us have noticed more problems with their IT structure and that Adobe are providing some serious competition. In the end it doesn't matter if I sell somewhere else for the same price so its just an observation really. As for web problems no its not just bad luck in this day and age.

Quote from: enstoker on October 19, 2016, 18:56

Quote from: Dreamframer on October 19, 2016, 18:23
I am submitting to SS since 2008, and the only thing I see is growth. As long as I remember, SS was one of the agencies people criticize the most, but somehow they always hold a place of a bestseller. I didn't upload a single photo from 2010 to 2016 and my sales almost didn't drop at all. So, I believe they know what they are doing and I don't see them losing a battle anytime soon.

Ha, ha.
And we all fell from the tree...

I was just pointing out that even though I didn't upload a single photo for 5 years my sales were consistent without any drop. I couldn't upload anything because I moved to USA on VISA that was not allowing me to work on any other source of income other than the company that sponsored me for VISA. So, in these 5 years SS was still the best seller for me with no significant drop in sales, despite the fact that their database grew more than 10 times and the numbers of submitters grew even more.

Quote from: HalfFull on October 19, 2016, 19:00

Quote from: Dreamframer on October 19, 2016, 18:23
I am submitting to SS since 2008, and the only thing I see is growth. As long as I remember, SS was one of the agencies people criticize the most, but somehow they always hold a place of a bestseller. I didn't upload a single photo from 2010 to 2016 and my sales almost didn't drop at all. So, I believe they know what they are doing and I don't see them losing a battle anytime soon.

Regarding website problems, it happens, it's nothing unusual.

Not bad, how many $k per month?!?

With only a couple of hundreds of photos in a portfolio an average photographer like me will rather talk about hundreds, not thousands. But, the fact is that the income from SS was consistent throughout those 5 years even though I was sitting doing nothing about it.

SS is feeding us for all this many years, can´t we say thank you to them once in a while?

Some people seem to wait for the occasion to complain.... and feel quite happy about it.

Quote from: Josephine on October 19, 2016, 20:29
SS is feeding us for all this many years, can´t we say thank you to them once in a while?

Some people seem to wait for the occasion to complain.... and feel quite happy about it.

It's so obvious that both Josephine and Dreamframer are from Shutterstock. 

Quote from: exxclusive on October 19, 2016, 20:59

Quote from: Josephine on October 19, 2016, 20:29
SS is feeding us for all this many years, can´t we say thank you to them once in a while?

Some people seem to wait for the occasion to complain.... and feel quite happy about it.

It's so obvious that both Josephine and Dreamframer are from Shutterstock. 

Lol, I don't know about Josephine, but I am certainly not. If you look at my old posts from few years back you will see that I was complaining about them a lot. I just realized now that nothing really changed regardless of all the complaints. So, I guess I realized they know what they are doing since they are just growing... at least so far. I submit to 14 agencies, and I always advised people to do the same. Submit to as many as you can because you never know what agency will start going down or up. I also learned that complaining and writing dramatic posts never lead to anything else than more drama. Things will go their way want it or not.

can't get my ftp uploader to work. Minnesota, USA

Quote from: samwagner10 on October 19, 2016, 23:22
can't get my ftp uploader to work. Minnesota, USA

Me neither, that's why I came here to check if anybody else has the same problem. I've used web based uploader today. That one works...

SS FTP upload not working. USA.

Quote from: Dreamframer on October 19, 2016, 23:27

Quote from: samwagner10 on October 19, 2016, 23:22
can't get my ftp uploader to work. Minnesota, USA

Me neither, that's why I came here to check if anybody else has the same problem. I've used web based uploader today. That one works...

for photos, at least, i'm waiting on lots of timelapse, tho

Im still unable to upload via FTP on SS and get the message:
Server sent passive reply with unroutable address, using server address instead.
Been like this for over 24hrs, come on SS resolve it please.