How to Know Who Unfollow You on 500px .com

Not a fool-proof, not a cheat-proof arrangement.

Meanwhile I got 3 of my images in Inspiration which is cool, but my followers growth decelerated a lot. I approximate YP gives a boost to the newcomers past giving them some extra exposure and offering discounts on Pro programme at the same time.

I'k not giving upward on YP yet but all this stuff sets me back a bit.

Yup. I had the aforementioned feel. I got a lot of followers in the first month. Likewise some inspirations and then the hype came to a halt. I recall this is their marketing, they want the fresh users to feel good and successfull so that they stay and are more than likely to buy a pro business relationship.

Let'southward get back to 500px: they continue in failure. The second fourth dimension this week my moving picture got stuck in the upcoming section. I accept over 2000 followers merely apparently both my uploads were not shown to them. Then i have reuploaded the first picture show and it got much more exposure. With todays failed picture i tin can't be bothered, i won't reupload it, for now i'm washed with 500px.

Also i have a 2nd 500px business relationship for my street photography. I accept average 20 likes per picture (only uploading at that place, no interaction). Now i encounter strange jumps in the corporeality of likes. I got over 80, the side by side just 7. Then again xx, and today a whopping 74. i would not claim that the successfull ones are special, just some random street similar all my other street images. I exercise not trust the pulse or the likes anymore.

Serthra

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Re: 500px Refugees

I think I've moved past 'frustrated' to only kind of sad that 500px can't seem to dig themselves out of this hole. I'grand not a coder/computer proficient but it seems that in over a month they should be able to get Groups working (still non able to see replies and threads load weird when I click) and my activity is withal showing nil fifty-fifty later a agglomeration of liking.

I liked 500px for the "immediate rush" of Pulse, Flickr merely seems to be such a wearisome burn, at least for me and Instagram, well....I withal post and mostly savor it but my engagement has too taken a tumble.

At the moment, I don't think I have the energy to start over (took me long enough to go the few followers I have) and then I'll probably stick to the "sinking ship" I volition keep an eye on this thread for ideas and in a couple of months or and then...evaluate where things stand up and possibly endeavor something else out.

PS I too like to practise a bit of a yearly audit and unfollow accounts that oasis't posted in a while (I'm commonly generous and give people a year or so, since life tin go far the way of things). I practice wish that sites would be a little more like Tumblr, they listing all the people you follow with a note of when their last postal service was. On 500px, and Flickr for that matter, I demand to open up each account and check the date of their last posted photo (unless there'south a improve way???) which is time consuming and abrasive

KCook

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list all the people you follow with a note of when their last mail service was. On 500px, and Flickr for that matter, I need to open each account and check the date of their terminal posted photo (unless there's a better way???) which is time consuming and annoying

YP appears to take the aforementioned limitation. I tin bear witness a popup grid of everybody I'g following, but that does not show their last upload, or whatsoever other meaningful info.

ohwell

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I always institute the "Pulse" a stupid gimmick that brings out the worst in people. Why should ane  "like" received in the first 24 hours be more of import than i similar received two months later on?

The rush to get as many likes in the shortest amount of time has brought us the like-spammers and their worse diverseness, the like-and-annotate-spammers.

There is nothing more indicative of how trivial this whole thing is about photography any more than seeing grown upward people spend hours daily on a website spamming "amazing picture", "great shot" and other empty copy/paste comments  simply and then they could get their like and empty comment dorsum just in fourth dimension to inflate the pulse of their own mediocre pictures.

Information technology'due south sad but information technology'southward sometimes funny to lookout if you're not a participant to the distressing circlejerk. In that location is this guy who has a standard comment "Honey X, perfect and cute Y pic, regards!" that he posts hundreds of times per twenty-four hours! Yes, he uses perfect and another less-than-perfect adjective together! He replaces Ten with the name of the lensman and Y with the category/title of the movie. When he goes for the category, the event might seem normal to the occasional reader : "Dear X, perfect and amazing flower picture, regards!". Merely when he goes for the copy/paste of the picture'south championship, things can go crazier: "Honey Ten, perfect and amazing my mother learning to ride a bycicle in the sunset motion picture, regards!". This guy has mediocre pictures and hundreds of likes per moving-picture show, and then if anyone wants to be "successful" on 500px, this is one method every bit expert as any.

Re: 500px Refugees

I am beyond frustrated also.  At the very to the lowest degree, I recollect nosotros deserve an explanation for what is going on.  As a paying member, I would like to know if 500px is going to continue to be.

I am merely an "enthusiast", and do not have every bit much invested equally many others, but I take been uploading to 500px for several years now, and have honestly (no con games) acquired a few hundred followers.  I would actually detest to lose that.

Does anyone know what the problem is?  I'chiliad beginning to think all the 500px employees have just walked off the job!

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Serthra wrote:

I recollect I've moved past 'frustrated' to just kind of distressing that 500px tin't seem to dig themselves out of this hole. I'one thousand not a coder/figurer expert but it seems that in over a month they should be able to go Groups working (still not able to run into replies and threads load weird when I click) and my action is still showing zero even subsequently a bunch of liking.

I liked 500px for the "immediate rush" of Pulse, Flickr just seems to be such a ho-hum burn down, at least for me and Instagram, well....I still post and generally enjoy it but my engagement has also taken a tumble.

Yes. I am at the "this is actually becoming funny and agreeable" stage of grief over 500px.

Mentally, I have written them off. I'm not and then much sorry virtually losing my followers, ext. but sad at not seeing their photos if they drib off or become off somewhere else. I followed people who posted photography I consistently liked. I shudder to think what will happen to the imense trove of stuff I volition never see.

At that place are a agglomeration of super commenters on YP the same as 500px, just for the most office, they don't post completely crap stuff. I still see photographs I really similar amongst their posts. I have no idea how they have the time to be that agile. Information technology doesn't affair all that much to me. They are playing a completly dissimilar game.

Still, I'm a little curious as to why they are doing it. I realise massive follower counts on FB, IG, YouTube and then on can be leveraged into potentially lucrative careers. But center-aged blokes on 500px or YP 'working' the crowd day and night to become the large follower counts and high scores ... so what? What practice they get out of it? I hope they aren't expecting endorsement deals from cosmetic companies.

Things are going okay for me at YP. As I mentioned, I started posting intermittently but non interacting simply over year ago. I have really simply started to use it properly, that is to say, view other people's work and follow back, since mid July. I may take missed the "promotion mechanism" for new members that others seem to be observing.

I'm happy with my progress, which has been faster than it was when I first started on 500px. View counts, my master metric of business organisation, is starting to arroyo what I was getting on 500px. The difference existence that it took over two years to get to that stage on 500px.

Over again, I hold that average quality is blare height 500px. Withal, there are enough of very expert photographers on the platform. Enough in-fact that I now experience I needed to be paying attending a long time agone.

Things are conspicuously starting to change though. 500px disintegrating has resulted in a massive drop in postings. Fresh is a lamentable sight! I realise this is a ridiculously subjective thing to say, only I contend that the YP's Newest has amend piece of work than 500px's Fresh.

OP Amin_AA • Forum Member • Posts: 81

Re: 500px Refugees

KCook wrote:

list all the people yous follow with a note of when their last post was. On 500px, and Flickr for that affair, I demand to open up each account and check the date of their last posted photo (unless in that location'southward a meliorate way???) which is time consuming and annoying

YP appears to have the same limitation. I can prove a popup filigree of everybody I'm post-obit, just that does not prove their terminal upload, or whatsoever other meaningful info.

ohwell

Both platforms could use amend interfaces for followers/following. I guess that is balanced against the need not to enable even more transactional behaviour around post-obit which seems to be the number ane complaint people have nearly these things.

Personally, I remember they should give up resisting. People are going to be people and systems designed to thwart these kinds of behaviour are of limited apply. Humans are, as the afterwards, nifty Tom Wolf would say, "statusy". The very strong, instinctive need for status among your peers/immediate grouping is an under appreciated phycological driver.

Fuji aid me, I am begining to get into the multi similar thing! I yet think being able to grant 50 likes is daft and non beingness able to cancel a like is an obvious oversight. Nonetheless, I like the idea of beingness able to give different levels of like. Let'southward face it, the interface, little fluttering hearts with the number of likes yous've give emerging and disappearing, is cute.

My suggestions would exist to permit users to give as many as 5 likes. Beingness able to express, I similar this to, I actually Like this would be useful. Press information technology a sixth time and yous clear all your likes, effectively giving users an united nations-like option if they change their mind. It is both graduated and is a little bit of an obstacle to adventitious un-liking.

Quarkcharmed

Re: 500px Refugees

So good news, 500px groups are now working.

Upcoming feed is still screwed though. Also there are reports that non all your followers volition see your images. I tried to submit a photo a day or two ago, just every bit a test it got very few likes and I removed it. Likewise in Upcoming, information technology quickly went downward with very old images nonetheless occupying the top.

And so the master functionality is still broken.

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Serthra

Serthra • New Member • Posts: 23

Re: 500px Refugees

I as well noticed the Groups working, I was finally able to read replies! Didn't try to answer anything, just assuming at least that bit is working.

Was even thinking of posting a photograph, just to test the waters once again, but...seems I chose the wrong time. 500px is down right now???

I did discover older photos (2-3 weeks) in the Fresh/Upcoming on the iPad, and then that hasn't been fixed. As well, anyone else experience the iPad app as being really slow??

Sigh. Going to bed, volition see what tomorrow brings

OP Amin_AA • Forum Member • Posts: 81

Re: 500px Refugees

Groups really are working again .... after what? cloys to ii months. Still, it's encouraging. Someone is even so at that place, trying to get things fixed.

OP Amin_AA • Forum Fellow member • Posts: 81

Re: 500px Refugees

Cheers for these Robb. I didn't know about fotocommunity.

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Re: 500px Refugees

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You know, my feeling is, if y'all are going to create a site with some chemical element of, for want of a amend word "discovery", yous are going to demand a mechanism like Pulse. If the objective is just photograph hosting, sure, information technology'southward not useful, but past a certain book of daily posts, something like Pulse becomes necessary.

For example, right at present with YP, you can merely about, if you were minded to, keep current with what is being posted merely by looking through Newest. I've looked through Newest in the morning and then again in the early afternoon and without besides much scrolling I've reached the point where I was seeing photos posted in the morn again.

You lot couldn't actually do this on 500px, at least not before everyone stopped posting. At that place was just too much new stuff coming in. Absent some kind of mega-AI able to judge which photos are best (I don't even know how you lot would brainstorm to describe "all-time" never listen implement it) there has to be some mode, relying on user feedback, to surface the best work and rotate it out to make room for newer posts. It's by no means perfect and is prone to degenerating into mutual liking circles but it's the all-time system we have.

As I have said earlier, YP has a Pulse like organisation also. They use it to curate the HOT category, merely it it is even more opaque than 500px's Pulse. For one thing, you don't even come across it!

I don't know if this is a good or bad thought. On the i hand, since you lot accept no direct indication at all, you lot care less near it. On the other paw, they can practise whatever the hell they wanted and you would have little clue as to what is going on.

Allow'south put aside established photographers with name recognition. Also gear up bated those, professional person or semi professionals, posting very popular categories of image: nudes, those CGI looking landscapes, wildlife, ext. Those people will, near organically, get a lot of exposure.

If y'all are an ordinary enthusiast or professional, producing adept to excellent images, you tin can get, I think, useful exposure from sites like 500px, YP, or even IG, if you do take some interaction with others. If you don't, no matter how adept the work is, yous won't get a very far.

I know many 500px users who mail really bright piece of work simply hardly interact with anyone else and they have few followers, likes and more importantly, views. It's a big shame, but I suppose many are happy with that, but I feel uncomfortable finding these profiles of people who are clearly far ameliorate than me, nonetheless have lower exposure.

I came to 500px to wait at other people'south piece of work. I only started to post my own photographs as an afterthought, so it was natural for me to exist browsing through lots of profiles, liking and following people who posted work I liked. It wasn't a thing I was doing to proceeds followers. I hardly always posted comments, although I make sure to give thanks people who post comments to my profile. I didn't follow people whose piece of work I didn't like, only to go them to follow me. I didn't follow people back when they started to post-obit me, if I didn't similar their piece of work.

My point is that I wasn't 'working' the system yet however got 600,000+ views in nearly two years. Non spectacular by internet standards simply okay, I think, for someone who isn't all that good and certainly not very active soliciting virtual affection.

People who detect this kind of thing beneath them, which I fully understand, can post to individual website or other services which do non take a social chemical element. I simply think information technology is pointless, at this phase, when nosotros know exactly how social networks piece of work, to postal service to them then complain that they are declining to recognise one'southward brilliance.

Quarkcharmed

At present afterward the brusk shutdown, Upcoming is stock-still also, and presumably the Habitation feed also.  500px guys have returned from a strike? Or perhaps the just person who was able to gear up it had been ill for a month, now he returned back to work and fixed everything in a couple of mouse clicks.

But jokes bated, it at present looks promising. I'll try and submit something today.

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Quarkcharmed

Re: 500px Refugees

I guess in that location's no platonic organization that can sort 'expert' photos from 'bad' ones.  The goodness is plain subjective, likewise, mathematically speaking, not transitive.

That is, if photograph A is improve than photograph B, and B is better than C, A should exist better than C. Just information technology doesn't concur for art, and then y'all cannot sort/rank the images in a unmarried stream. Whatever ranking arrangement will be flawed.

However a system that's based purely on likes won't work whatsoever skillful at all, hence Pulse system on 500px and a mysterious Algorithm on Instagram. However not ideal only at least they button decent quality content to the top. Some exceptional content doesn't achieve the top just at least the system filters out about of the mediocre content.

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Re 500px and YP

My experience of YP and 500px is as follows:

I have been a member of 500px for a few years. I liked the clean layout and quality of pics displayed. Overall the quality of photographs exceeded those of Flickr (on which I have been a member for over 12 years) which is often bloated by 'snaps' and cyberspace grabs. And although the social interaction is quite practiced on 500px, in my stance it is often of the diverseness of "I'll like yours if you similar mine" and 'follow me' and 'I'll follow you' and non that genuine. Despite taking time to piece of work on 500px to boast hits and followers I found information technology depressingly difficult to proceeds much traction. I know life is not all well-nigh 'hits' and 'followers' but a modest return for effort would be heartening. And so like many, I tend to look at 500px in bouts of enthusiasm, which and so wanes and I vow to spend my limited time on Flickr - the onetime true-blue - not perfect simply it its stood the examination of time.

YP is in my view similar to 500px and I have been a member of it for a year or so. Initially I liked it a lot - make clean interface and good quality of photographs - so nice to mix with good photographers.
I started with a free subscription just as this level only allows one photo upload per day I soon graduated to an 'Enthusiast' subscription ($59.54 per annum) which allowed unlimited photo uploads.
I so upgraded to a 'Premium' subscription ($119.88 per annum) which allowed 1 to create photo albums and gain an 'increased boost and exposure of your photos' and 'priority curation'. I establish this level beneficial - and although expensive (but I may accept been given an offer to mitigate the toll) - information technology worked and did what it said on the tin.
I was so persuaded by the YP Team (who ship countless upgrade letters by the way) to upgrade to Pro Level. This had the additional benefit of the power of create a portfolio website as an add on to one's YP page and create albums within sub-folders. The almanac price is $359.88 and I received a 50% discount. I liked the idea of combining a social interaction display site with a portfolio webpage - I felt that this would minimise work. It transpired that the YP team was small and besides the resources and thus the Pro offering is underdeveloped - various aspects of the 'Pro' offering simply do not piece of work and I have however to discover any added value. I canvassed many other Pro members who all confirmed the same thoughts re dissatisfaction and stated that they would not exist renewing their memberships. After a lengthy battle I have now reverted to 'Premium' level, got a rebate from the Pro toll, just am not uploading photos at the moment - its not been a pleasant experience. My advice to anyone considering YP to be very wary of the plush Pro upgrade whatever the inducement offered by the YP team.

In short I experience that Flickr is still probably the all-time social interaction photo site if you desire to maintain albums etc (as opposed to 'show me quick' sites similar Instagram). And for proper display I find that Smugmug is difficult to crush (as is Zenfolio) - both at competitive prices.

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Quarkcharmed

It was likewise proficient to be true. I did submit an image just information technology got just 1 like in 30 minutes. I looked closer and figured almost all images in Fresh had 0 likes, sometimes one-two.

The site was very laggy and mobile app fails to connect to the server.

It's very interesting how 500px guys are deploying their updates and fixes on Fridays. Swish Friday delivery. I suspect this won't be fixed till Monday.

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KCook

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Re: 500px Refugees

I was and then persuaded by the YP Team (who send countless upgrade messages by the fashion) to upgrade to Pro Level. This had the additional benefit of the ability of create a portfolio website as an add on to i's YP folio and create albums within sub-folders. The annual toll is $359.88 and I received a 50% discount. I liked the idea of combining a social interaction brandish site with a portfolio webpage - I felt that this would minimise work.

Practiced to know

I started with the Free program.  As y'all said, every couple of days I would go a YP message urging an upgrade.  Finally did upgrade to Enthusiast.  No longer become the nag letters then oft.

Of course I'm aware of Smugmug.  I accept been on Zenfolio for several years.  I get very few views on ZF, so YP seems like a breakthrough to me.  Also SM and ZF, some other Pro host that intrigues me is Squarespace.  SS has no depression ball hobby rates like ZF and YP, but the SS pro rate is not too much more the YP Pro plan.  However, I take never actually tried SS, do non know that it has whatever customs side like 500px, Flickr, and YP.  Maybe we will e'er exist stuck with different hosts for customs vs Pro business???

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TMHKR • Forum Member • Posts: 82

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First of all, sad for reviving this thread. You-Pic user since 2017 here, and I postal service this for anyone looking to open an account in that location. Here are my experiences so far.

To put information technology simply - for my needs, YP just works. That'south it. I've got about 200 photos there on a gratuitous account, budgeted half a million views in total. I primarily use YP to showcase my work, by sending the link to my profile to friends on social media and others.

  • The best thing about YP? It'southward fast. Where Flickr and certain others slow to a clamber, YP just keeps going regardless of the device I use it on. It's not light-speed fast, but still mode faster than many others.
  • When I like a photo, it doesn't have an age before the click is registered. 1 matter some people won't similar, is that y'all can "like" a certain photograph up to (I believe) 30 times, and you can't unlike photos. An unnecessary characteristic if y'all ask me, but whatsoever.
  • It has a global system of 38 dissimilar categories, so I tin just smash a photograph to a category without spamming it with a million tags (tags and geolocation are supported, though).
  • Photos retain most of ther quality, without becoming an unrecognizable mess afterward the upload (annotation - original resolution is not kept for download, YP is Non a photograph archival website).
  • The "Inspiration" feature. Users can smash a gilded star on a photo they really like, in lodge to "nominate" it for the Inspiration feed. Photo is so reviewed by actual people (perhaps a small selected team) to determine whether it's proficient enough to be featured among other quality stuff. If they approve the photograph, it gets featured in the feed, where it commonly receives more than views than information technology otherwise would. From my personal experience, this system is about lxx% reliable, equally some boilerplate stuff can slip through from time to fourth dimension.
  • In their early on days, YP had unlimited uploads fifty-fifty for costless accounts. All the same, this was changed last year - gratuitous accounts are now limited to simply ane photo per 12 hours. This decision was made because some accounts were flooding the website with ads and other trash (see the 4th indicate in the list below). Free users are forced to be more selective of what they upload, potentially increasing the quality of their portfolio.

Of course, there are some drawbacks.

  • YP suffers from the same "similar for like, follow for follow" dogma just like 500px, from which it draws most of its design and functionality - simply hey, that'due south the trouble with many similar platforms too. It'south up to you to make up one's mind who you lot desire to follow.
  • Free accounts cannot create albums. This should be considered equally a basic feature, just like galleries (or collections) that YP doesn't even take.
  • The follower and photograph counters will sometimes become crazy (mine shows 20 people more than than I have) - not a huge deal for me.
  • The "human curation" is non so precise as they imply. I've seen some awesome piece of work for sure, merely as well some pretty cringe stuff. At that place were even some "photos" (actually ads for businesses) that I had to written report. They're merely encountered once in a while, and don't ruin the browsing experience in general.
  • Unlike 500px, the Premium and Pro accounts are significantly more expensive, at $120 and $360 a year respectively. If they brought their prices down to globe, I believe they would gain much more users and popularity. Your inbox will ofttimes receive "special offers" from YP squad - if y'all don't want a paid account, just ignore them.

That being said, even with all the drawbacks, YP still remains my #1 pick. Information technology'southward nowhere as pop as the "erstwhile guard", but as I said, information technology just works.

Re: 500px Refugees

Hi,

I've recently found out most a new photo sharing platform where you lot get 18-carat feedback and the community is growing fast : https://100asa.com

There is also a review virtually it: https://world wide web.dpreview.com/forums/post/64713640

I hope information technology helps

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TMHKR wrote:

  • 1 thing some people won't like, is that you can "like" a sure photograph up to (I believe) 30 times, and you tin't unlike photos. An unnecessary feature if you enquire me, just whatever.

To be frank this is not only 'unnecessary', it's the most stupid characteristic in the history of photography websites period. If I knew this from the get become I would have never registered an business relationship on that website considering it shows what the owners are trying to cultivate, the 'by the numbers' click and collect craze. I'yard looking for a virtual gallery with peers interaction, not a forum 'meta' game. For me the 'Similar' function is inherently binary, I either similar or not similar a flick, there's no need for grades of intensity.

Anyway, my feel with YP was brusque and unpleasant even without knowing of this stupid xxx likes gimmick. I registered an account when 500px was hacked. I uploaded a few pics, started post-obit a few people that I idea had corking pics. A few days later, one of these people I was following, sends me a individual message saying something like 'thank you for the likes on my pictures, just I don't need the likes, I need you to share them'. I'grand like what in the hell? Allow me decide how I collaborate with your content, y'all're not in a position to ''need' anything from me.  I unfollowed this guy instantly and the aforementioned day closed my account, at present I knew everything I needed to know about what's happening on a website like this. Information technology'southward no ameliorate than 500px in whatsoever shape or form, everyone is out to 'collect' numbers, it'due south not nigh art, genuine feedback or integrity anymore (if information technology ever was in the first place).

The shocking thing is this guy was truly good, he had groovy nature pictures with 'likes' in the hundreds (albeit with the lame 30 likes per person that I wasn't enlightened of and then) so I thought information technology was very stupid of them to try and 'police' how people 'should' give them feedback. If this 'prominent' contributor behaved this mode, I tin only imagine what kind of 'tit-for-tat' games are being played by the 'smaller fish' over in that location.

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