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« Reply #50 on: June 26, 2007, 09:50 »
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I think everyone should boycott the site until they get FTP and IPTC reading on line.

By all means reserve you username but dont upload.  This is the approach I am taking.
I think this is a wise approach CJPhoto.  I did sign up last night, but thought I'd hold off on the uploading.  It would also suck if they gave a bonus for submitting later on to attract new artists.

(It didn't seem right signing up to another site though when no one gets a referral bonus though!)


« Reply #51 on: June 26, 2007, 09:53 »
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sounds like a load of trouble to me....hmm......those who have joined the band wagon, do keep me posted....doesn't look like a good idea to join at this point in time... :o

« Reply #52 on: June 26, 2007, 14:09 »
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Is it possible to change description and keywords after a photo is accepted?

« Reply #53 on: June 26, 2007, 15:24 »
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No, you can only change the pricing.

Inger

« Reply #54 on: June 26, 2007, 15:37 »
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you can add keywords one at a time after they are uploaded.

I think i am putting off uploading for a bit - till they get things worked out.  I had registered to reserve my name, but the your name has to be at least 5 characters long........ so 'leaf' didn't work :(

« Reply #55 on: June 26, 2007, 15:47 »
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.............. your name has to be at least 5 characters long........ so 'leaf' didn't work :(
whoa,  guess I have to come with a new handle too...  I'll probably go with the company name now....  8)-tom

« Reply #56 on: June 26, 2007, 16:44 »
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I think i am putting off uploading for a bit - till they get things worked out.  I had registered to reserve my name, but the your name has to be at least 5 characters long........ so 'leaf' didn't work

Not to worry leaf. That is just your login name that needs to be 5 characters long, which is not the same as your screen name. I was also confused by that until I discovered that elsewhere (I think under 'profile') you can enter your name/alias as you want it displayed on the site and it can be any number of characters.

« Reply #57 on: June 27, 2007, 17:56 »
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has anyone had a sale from this site yet?

« Reply #58 on: June 27, 2007, 18:16 »
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It appears that they have taken down there login link...I went to login last night and had whole heap of server errors. So even if you had a sale you cant login to check it.  ;D

« Reply #59 on: June 27, 2007, 18:17 »
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okay its now back.... strange hehehe

« Reply #60 on: June 27, 2007, 18:57 »
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I submitted one image just to test the waters-still not reviewed. No ftp, no meta data, slow review time, but hey! isn't corbis the site that never made any profit??? SY

« Reply #61 on: June 27, 2007, 19:12 »
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Hi there

I'm new here and new to Stock, I've mainly done editorial type work in the past on 35mm, magazines, postcards etc. I used digital for a few years but only seriously for the last month.

I've joined some of the Big 6 and last night signed up for SnapVillage.  As other people have mentioned in earlier posts the watermarks are small and the quality of the preview images are very good. A person could easily steal a photo for use on a website.

I have a couple of niggles with regard to uploading - I uploaded 5 photos last night all over 3Mp but because they were all  2048 X 1536 they were rejected as the system will only accept a resolution above 2100 X 1500!

This evening I uploaded 5 more, I cut and pasted the IPTC data into the keywords field on the uploads page and started the upload.  After about 10 mins the screen refreshed but the photos didn't appear.  The I noticed the word error highlighted in red next to the keyword box.  I'd used the ";" instead of "," to separate the keywords and had to edit and upload the photos again - what a pain!

I dare say they will sort all this out in time, I'm sure they have had lots of feedback already.

Regards

Peat

« Reply #62 on: June 29, 2007, 19:05 »
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Is anyone still getting photos approved here? I uploaded my first five this past Monday to try it out and they are still Pending.

« Reply #63 on: June 29, 2007, 20:31 »
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Mine are also pending since earlier this week...

« Reply #64 on: June 29, 2007, 21:09 »
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Mine, too.  But I did get an email from them today to confirm that they had received my submissions (first one was made on June 26th), and suggesting checking back periodically for their status.

I did get a notice when I accessed their site the other day that said something to the effect of their "village" is becoming a "city", and to bear with them while they were trying to keep up.  I guess the response was a little more than they expected.

« Reply #65 on: June 30, 2007, 02:52 »
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I uploaded 80 images, and 14 have been approved so far.
« Last Edit: June 30, 2007, 02:54 by iahulbak »

« Reply #66 on: July 06, 2007, 01:27 »
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I don't know if these things rotate on snapvillage or not, but freezingpics has one of the top 3 "snappiest" photos as well as an editor's choice on the browse page.  Freezing, they love you.  (I do love that iceberg too.)  Any sales yet?

« Reply #67 on: July 06, 2007, 05:20 »
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No upgrades in over a week.  Seems as if they rushed to get the site out and are now working on the features that should have been their in the first place (well I hope they are working on them).

They are also moderting comments in the blog as a few of mine aren't showing up.  Not supprising really.

« Reply #68 on: July 06, 2007, 16:46 »
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I think everyone should boycott the site until they get FTP and IPTC reading on line.

By all means reserve you username but dont upload.  This is the approach I am taking.

Yep, i'm also taking a similar approach. Have signed up and uploaded 5 pics to evaluate the aproval/rejection policy, time, keywording (cool feature this one, but if they keep this up in a short period of time they won't have capacity to meet the demands when everybody starts uploading). I'll also wait for IPTC and FTP uploading

But it looks cool, and i like their approach. Does anyone know where can we see the "snapiness" of a photo ? Or we can only order them by snapiness but never see that value ?

Regards

« Reply #69 on: July 07, 2007, 03:24 »
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I don't know if these things rotate on snapvillage or not, but freezingpics has one of the top 3 "snappiest" photos as well as an editor's choice on the browse page.  Freezing, they love you.  (I do love that iceberg too.)  Any sales yet?

Thanxs pixart :-) I haven't seen that until I got on there after reading your post. I do not have any sales yet. But 700 something views on the iceberg image. At least people are looking at that site. Probably all photographers :).

About the snappyness from the FAQs:  "Every image in the SnapVillage catalog has a living, breathing snappyness score based on a sophisticated and proprietary algorithm. Snappyness is a dynamic rating that is driven by multiple measures of a pictures popularity, including the number of times it has been viewed, downloaded, favorited, commented upon, shared and purchased. The Snappyness rating ensures that SnapVillage searches yield the freshest, best images."
I uploaded 80+ images, but stopped uploading except for one or two, when I hope they will be an editors choice to get publicity as early as possible.
I will upload as well more, if they improve their features.

« Reply #70 on: July 13, 2007, 01:32 »
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I've just made my second attempt to upload to SnapVillage, and I'm rather surprised. Here we have one of the largest photo agencies in the world, owned by one of the richest men in the world, who also owns the biggest software company in the world, and they launch something that for all practical purposes is more or less useless.

My attempted upload ended with the message "DB Error: - Transaction (Process ID 67) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction." No IPTC data of course.

If starting a microstock agency was something new, like sending people to Mars, it would have been understandable, but there are newcomers in this market more or less every week, all of them with far less resources. Still, they all have more professional launches that SnapVillage.

In a way, I feel insulted, and I think we all should. Obviously, we don't have to upload to ScrapVillage if we don't want to, but using our time and resources for beta-testing that should have been finished months before they even considered uploading their site to the internet is at least ill-mannered.

On the other hand, this is the way I feel any time I use a computer that runs Windows, so maybe it's only me  ;D

« Reply #71 on: July 13, 2007, 01:44 »
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It hasn't been launched yet, this is a beta site.  I will only judge them when the proper site is launched.  I think it is a good idea to launch a beta site and let those without the patience to wait for the proper site be the guinea pigs.  Microsoft do that with their software.

I hope they have a proper watermark and a decent upload system by then.

« Reply #72 on: July 13, 2007, 04:29 »
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It hasn't been launched yet, this is a beta site.  I will only judge them when the proper site is launched.  I think it is a good idea to launch a beta site and let those without the patience to wait for the proper site be the guinea pigs.  Microsoft do that with their software.

I hope they have a proper watermark and a decent upload system by then.

The "normal" procedure with beta-testing (with a possible exception for Microsoft, who are usually not functional with a new product until Service Pack 2 or thereabout, but they have a monopoly, more or less), is to develop the product as far as it goes without the access to "real-life" situations, and then start the beta-testing phase.

That is clearly not the case here. CrapVillage lacks some very obvious, basic functions that anyone with experience from the microstock market would consider must-haves. Reading IPTC data is so basic and so important to the users, that not including it, even in a beta-version makes me wonder how much they understand about the supply side of microstock.

On the other hand, IS has dumped quite a few untested procedures upon us the last year as well, so maybe this is the new microstock culture? Do half the job and let the users figure out if it works or not.

Since the news are obviously spreading that they are online, people will try them to see what they are good for. Many of those users will conclude that they are online, but not functional, beta or not. In this very competitive world, you seldom get more than one chance to impress your customers. Since TrapVillage has already had media-coverage (NYT, no less), they have already played one of their strongest cards. Not smart.

« Reply #73 on: July 13, 2007, 07:49 »
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I think I'll give the site a try for a while and see what develops.

« Reply #74 on: July 13, 2007, 13:59 »
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I've just made my second attempt to upload to SnapVillage, and I'm rather surprised. Here we have one of the largest photo agencies in the world, owned by one of the richest men in the world, who also owns the biggest software company in the world, and they launch something that for all practical purposes is more or less useless.
Isn't that Microsoft software history anyway? ;)

Regards,
Adelaide


 

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