Great to hear about the update the pages are loading indeed much faster
Since I have you here, any update on the approval times, some of my  pictures are in the queue for a month now
Thanks!

Thats great to hear.   

We are really not 'live' in the sense that we can live up to any claims of 100% efficiency at this point (hence, Zymmetrical "Beta"). Every day so much is changing, that it's really hard to focus on things like expanding editorial staff. We have a really big backlog in the queue as you well know, and some day soon we will be able to deal with these incoming submissions as normal agencies do.     

We could all drop everything for a few days and push through a few thousand approvals, but then there's still broken thumbs in some peoples accounts, our new advanced search to complete, on and on. If I could show you a graph our approval rate it would show a sharp increase lately.. nothing interesting for people with none pushed through yet, but we are definitely moving up the pile.

Consider any uploaded files as an investment in the future - we value them all but are trying to balance out all aspects of the business as we get this thing rolling.

Ldambies,  we pushed your photos through. It was only a few and you had nice keywords so it was pretty easy.   

On another note, in the department of 'Zymmetrical CKO Paul living up to his 17 years of photo industry experience' - he noticed that our preview thumbs were not as sharp as they could be. Today after uploading a bunch of extra .ICC profile files to the servers, the image thumbs seem to be coming out just beautiful, much better crispness and depth of field. 

Consider any uploaded files as an investment in the future - we value them all but are trying to balance out all aspects of the business as we get this thing rolling.

Somebody must be doing something right at Zymmetrical since I got (to my surprise) a 10$ sale from just 4 photos uploaded as a test last September. Finally somebody who got his marketing right in "MidStock". Me guesses that ZM found an unserved audience of buyers that are willing to pay more than 1$ per shot if it's the right one and they only need a few now and then (SS's subscription being too expensive for them).

For now I personally consider ZM as a promising investment. No rush. Take it easy guys, but the clock is always ticking in Stockland. Just curious, will ZM be accepting postal DVD's as a way of submission? Could save bandwidth in case one has 500+ shots.

Thanks for the positive word. 

Yes I agree thats a big difference with the thumb.  That one was generated before the latest upgrades.     Note the "tn-" prefixed thumbs are also internal only in each artists's submission area so I believe they we're run at lower quality intentionally.     

Rest assured these ones will come out on the live site in full quality.