Feature suggestions

Use this thread to suggest new features to to be implemented at 1x.com

Please make sure you describe it as carefully as possible. Brief/incomplete suggestions will be deleted. If added to development roadmap, you can see status in this thread: https://1x.com/forum/site-related/new-1x---upcoming-features

Good light!

I suggest to add SKIP button to the cration page.

Increasing the popularty of the PUBLISHED PHOTOS.

Since we are struggling to post our images to our portfolios and those photos are curated just like the awarded photos, I suggest to increase those photos popularties by including a separate button in the main gallery page beside the awarded photos labeled as published photos.

The reason behind this is those whome visiting the main gallery page they do not know that the published photos are included in the drop menue of the awarded photos.

I love the Profile Data that used to be in classic. Can we have some of it in Gamma -

When I open a profile I would like to see how many published images that member has.

What part of the world they come from.

Hello Jacob,

I miss the concept of "following" photographers.

I do not know if it is planned to be incorporated into Gamma,. I would really regret to see this community aspect disappear in the new version.

Following a photographer means you have special attention for his/her work.

On the practical side: an additional tab in the list of "popular", "last awarded", "last published", etc .. would be nice.

Luc

Totally agree. Same for Luc suggestions

Thanks for the sugguestions. I will update the development roadmap shortly. 

Daniel asked also in a different forum the following that I totally endorse ;

I miss lists. 

I have just found another inspiring image that I'd want to collect somehow. In the new version, without the lists feature, how can I save an image so I can easily find it again?

500px has galleries.

100ASA has galleries.

Youpic has albums.

1x had lists.

In the old version it was so simple, 12 published photos and 35 total... I can go and see all the images a photographer I am interested in has posted.

Even in my profile its hard to see all my images...

Also now I can only upload large images if I want to sell, then when I open the image it is larger than the screen...

Dear Adam,

the list feature is still available. Creating lists is a way of collecting favourite photos by other photographers on 1x under different themes. Go to CLASSIC, click on the button with three lines next to the heart icon below photos in full size to create new lists and add photos to existing lists. You will find your lists in Photos > Lists > Your lists.

Kind Regards, Hans-Martin

Hello!

In order to increase the activity on the website, I suggest that there would be the possibility to upload a photo and send it to the curators (for example, at 1000 photographies voted to earn a loading spot). Some of my friends that are also photographers I introduced 1x.com to are dissapointed that they can't send any photo on the website without paying the subscription. I don't understand how the new in-page arrangement (hierarchy) of the popular photos works, it seems very chaotic to me. In my opinion, the old hierarchy that was made based on the number of people who added the photography to their favorites was better and should come back.

Have o good light!

Yes I am aware of that. But classic will be turned off eventually. What will happen to my collection then?

Maybe this feature will be imported in gamma, I don't know. But classic will be not turned off tomorrow !

I make a proposition, cf the chapter "curation for free accounts",

Regards

Daniel asked also in a different forum the following that I totally endorse ;

Is someone responding to Daniel Springgay questions? I certainly want an answer. Thank you

Dear Mariuca,

Jacob created this forum topic to collect wishes about the new 1x.com. He is primarily responsible for programming and due to time constraints he cannot answer every comment made here.

Concerning the quoted two wishes by Daniel :

This function has already been implemented. Go to any profile, click on "About", then you will see the number of pictures published, the country in which the member lives, the Instagram address and (if filled in) a biography.

Cheers, Hans Martin

Please implement a SEARCH function for members and images. (If there is one, I can't find it, I've searched everywhere...)

Oh, and please, please, please remove the dreadfully irritating pop-out side bar menu that continually covers up too many things at the wrong moment. My swear jar is overflowing because of it.

Oh, oh, and yes, my neck hurts from twisting around trying to read names printed sideways on the sides of photos... form over function. Pretty yes, but also pretty annoying. 

Peter, 

the pop-out sidebar does exactly that what you desire. On the top of this sidebar you'll find SEARCH. Click SEARCH and then type what you would like to find. It works ! I tried it with "Davidson". And the other lines on the sidebar are necessary for navigation. 

And you can avoid your neck hurts with a little training (of the eyes and your brain). Reading vertical text is easily possible without turning one's head.

Kind regards, Hans-Martin

Dear Hans Martin,
it's certainly true that some (not all) of the information relating to the author present in 1x Classic has been now transferred to the new profile of the author, which can be viewed by clicking on the "About" item of the individual profiles.

But regarding the exposure of the data relating to Country, however, I find it useful specify that the author must before "Edit" their profile and compile the "Location" field, as the data is not automatically taken from the value in the "Country" field (such as was the case before in 1x Classic).

About the still missing data, then, I would like to be reported also the indication if the author of which you are viewing the gallery or profile is among those you follow.
But above all, I would like to have still a button - perhaps always in the "About" form - that would allow me to "Follow" an author. Unless I didn't notice, currently the only possibility to follow an author is still to go in 1x Classic and press the relative button in his profile.

Kind regards, Sergio

I completely agree with all your points, especially the annoying vertical text when there is so much space bottom right to place the name there. So much more natural that our eyes look at the image and then tilt slightly lower to read the name without giving me a neck twist. Cheers Joe

Hi Peter, hi Joe,

I already answered Peter in one of my comments above but I still want to add something about this issue "vertical text". Especially in the member profiles and in the exhibitions the vertical text is great. Far better than a text (author and image title) below the picture.

But let's talk about the flow of published and awarded images. 

I'm primarily interested in pictures. If a picture does not touch me, I'm neither interested in the image title nor in the name of the author. That's why I don't need to turn my head or take my computer to turn it 90 degrees at this time.

If an image touches me I click on the image, then I can look at it in bigger size and all information (author, image title, comments) appear below the image (horizontal).

Since I am no "fast fooder" who is mainly interested in seeing as many images as possible in a given time frame, I like this layout with the vertical text very much. 

Concerning the flow of images in my personal profile I would be unhappy when the image title appears below the image instead of the place on the right side. The layout of a presentation is for my personal taste a very important issue. In my next book I would consider to choose a layout similar to the presentation in the 1X profile.

Cheers, Hans-Martin

Hello all. Hans, when I click on a photographers about on GAMMA, I do not see country. 

I see how many published photos and their IG account if they have.   

So, whoever reads this, can you please verify if the same with you. 

Do you see country name of photographer when you click ' about ' in their profile GAMMA version. Thank-you

Hi Joe,

have a look at my profile:

https://1x.com/hmdoelz

Cheers, Hans-Martin

Well we need other members  to verify. You I see Germany, the others I do not see country name. I checked numerous times.

do you see mine?

No, Joe, I don't see yours.

The reason: 

You did not fill in the field "LOCATION". That's why in "about" of your profile there is no information about your country.

Go to SETTINGS, fill in the field and the problem is solved. See attached photo from SETTINGS of my profile:

Good light, Hans-Martin

Hans Martin Doelz

Joe Cancilla

Well we need other members  to verify. You I see Germany, the others I do not see country name. I checked numerous times.do you see mine?

No, Joe, I don't see yours.

 

The reason: 

 

You did not fill in the field "LOCATION". That's why in "about" of your profile there is no information about your country.

 

Go to SETTINGS, fill in the field and the problem is solved. See attached photo from SETTINGS of my profile:

 

 

Good light, Hans-Martin

Ok but most members I do not see country name. Many of us have to that then, I thought it would be carried over automatically from Classic.

That is the way I understood it when you wrote above in post it was ' implemented '. So we have to do it ourselves is what you are saying.

Ok done for me, would be good to let everybody know because very few members have their country name in the ' about' section

Well, I think every member is responsible for keeping his profile up to date. There were no Instagram adresses in the classic profiles, they had to be added manually by the members in gamma if they wanted to show it there. And if they want to show their country, then they have to fill in the field LOCATION. It's quite easy.

Cheers, Hans-Martin

I'm with 1x for quite a few years. Every profile was asigned to the country of teh artist. Just compare classic and new 1x if you come across a profile without a country I bet the info is displayed in classic, its just a matter of being displayed. Like Canada forJoe.

Yes... Canada

Thank-you Netherlands!

I am disappointed that in the new 1x the dates are not included in the comments. 

In Classic, in the comments, we can see when each comment was written. Such as 3 days ago, 2 months ago etc etc.

I would of also preferred to see an upload date in the new Gamma. 

This was not in Classic. In ' photo info ', there is space to include an upload date of a particular photo. 

In the new Gamma, all our photos and associated comments were transferred but not the dates.

We lost that sense of passage of time and to me its an important element in the overall experience of navigating on the 1x platform looking at photographers profiles.

Joe

Are we ever going to see the non published images of a photographer in the new version? 

I'd like to be able to cancel my published pictures. Am I or not the owner of copyright? Sometimes I need to licence photos published in 1x to someone else. I guess I can write to the support team but why make things difficult? A CANCEL button would be much appreciated and of course faster.

Hello Andrea,

Please don’t forget 1x is primarily an online gallery. If you enabled sales in upload, every published photo is offered to partners for sales immediately. If you then withdraw the photo, it becomes difficult to remove it from various stores again. I’d rather only upload what is meant to stay on 1x, and not take it as a sport to get published.

You can always drop support@1x a mail to have photos removed.

Best regards,

Mike

Thank you Mike for your kind reply. It's not a sport but rather a real need. Have a nice day.

If I may say so, also with a CANCEL button it would be easy in a moment of frustration to delete a photo, in which members and crew have spent some time in comments, critique, screening, etc... Of course not in your case, Andrea.

Best regards to all.

Francesco

Yes Francesco, you are right. I didn't think about that. Thank you for reminding me.

My pleasure, Andrea.

Hello all, there should be a delete photo option for every single photo. These are my photos and I should always get to decide what I want to do with them. 

The only time any of my photos were meant to stay somewhere forever is when they were sold at 100% rights to buyer.

Thar is not the case with 1X.

In old classic version I could delete my photo anytime I wanted too. In new version I still do not see that option AND I do not see a FAQ about it.

If you know where I can find published details from management  about ' deleting a photo ' let me know.

All of a sudden having to drop an email to support to remove a photo is absurd especially since nobody was ever notified that this will be the new way to proceed?

In old Classic, click cogwheel and delete option is there, I did not have to send an email to support.

In new version not there, click cogwheel and I can't see delete option.

Show me where this was announced it would happen with the new version?

I'm all fine with websites doing changes but they should advise beforehand everybody that this will happen.

Again, as I have pointed out several times, there has been a big lack of communication between management and photographers (clients) to clearly define what the changes will be to the new 1x before implementing them. All it took was at the very least a chart or message of what stays the same, what will be removed, what will be modified etc etc.

It would of prevented lots of frustrations.

Right now the way it's being done is we have to go look for bits and pieces of scattered information everywhere: magazine articles, the comments section of those articles, forum posts, forum post replies, FAQ's etc 

NOT good, it could be done much better.

Regards,

Joe

Actually that's not true, Joe. In "classic 1x" it wasn't possible to delete a published photo either. I'm sure, because I had to once.

regards,

Mike

Hi Mike, it was possible to remove check mark on ' sales' and then delete, without having to send email.

So if I changed my mind about putting it for sale I could remove that option myself and then delete.

I just found the FAQ about deleting photos.

we have to send a ' reason' for deletion...

Again, I'm not very happy with the way the new version is being made and missing so much of what was really good in Classic 1x.

Joe

Oh sorry, that's new to me... 

If I remember right, mine was never for sale and still I could not delete it. Probably I don't remember right ;-)

Hi Crew, is there any chance of making new "gamma" version having normal, classic grid view of photographs/images? The current endless scroll of zig-zagged images is a total turn-off and designed perhaps for an smart-phone scrolling addict rather than a photographer or an artist. Thanks, Andro

That's available, Andor, called "Flow" and "Thumbs"... On the top of the "Flow" you can alter it.

Hi Mike -  it is only possible on 1x main page of photos. There is no way of doing so (grid view / thumbs) on idividual profile pages so it seems. Andro

Yes, I noticed that too late, sorry...

The "Thumbs" view is not available on your portfolio.

If I remember well this feature was available in the very first days of Gamma, but not sure about this.

Anyway, I would like to see it (re)installed.

Luc

I find a delete option when I go to edit the title, info and tags of a photo and scroll down. It's underneath all the technical details.

Sorry, if this question has already been answered and I've overlooked.

Also; I couldn't find the development roadmap with the link Jacob provided. Can anyone tell me where to find this?

I wrote it somewhere else, but since this is the suggestions section: I'd like to have the guestbooks in the personal profiles re-instated. It would be nice to be able to drop a few lines of appreciation or a testimonial for the photographer and his/her entire work, like in the classic 1x-version.

Is it possible to make the curation status 'bubble' movable by dragging and dropping it somewhere else on the page? It's often in the way of buttons I'd like to press (at least in the mobile phone version). For example right now, where I'd like to submit my comment in the forum, it's in front of 'Write'. Example photo: 

Please ignore my comment about deleting... just found out that only applies to the photo's in my 'old' gallery. The ones that have been published and/or awarded cannot be deleted indeed.

In the FAQ it states we can delete any photo by clicking the ' actions ' button in new 1X.  I tested that and I do not have that delete option. Who else can test this for me? Do you see the delete option?

Regards, Joe

Nope, there is no delete in Full View + Actions menu, also for none published.

Go to your profile.

Click on "photos". You will see a list of all your photos that are on the 1x server. Choose the photo you like to delete and click on the edit button on the right side. The photo details appear. At the bottom of this page you find a button "edit photo details". Click, and then at the bottom there are three buttons (back, delete,save)  if the image was not published. For published photos there is no delete button.

I meant for published photos in new 1x. I repeat, in FAQ it says delete is in the actions button of photos, does not specify published or not.

I want to be able to delete any of my photos at any time, published or not. I repeat, in the FAQ it says I can delete in the action menu of my photo in full size. Well I cannot in the new 1x. That option is not there. It should be there.I should be able to delete any of my photos any time I decide to for whatever reason.
Joe

Since I'm member of 1x published photos never could be deleted by members themselves. In the new FAQ this is not specified but as we have worked out, it's not possible.

In the FAQ classic version this was stated as follows:

How do I delete pictures?

You can delete photos on your profile that not have been published by the curators. Delete photos through the cogwheel menu in the toolbar below full size photos. If you want to delete a published photo, send an email to support[at]1x.com stating the reason for deletion and we will help you out.

However, you can delete your whole profile without information to the 1x support. I think, with this action you can make all your photos disappear from the 1x server.

Another suggestion: the ability to view the 'Photo info' (in case there is a description) of fellow photographer's images that got published and/or awarded, not only the title.

In curation, you can not skip curating a photo, you either piblish or reject it which in my opnion is unfair for the photo.

ADD skip buttun to the curation.

I am a 12 year member at 1x.com, I do not know the age of 1x.com,  what about photos published some 10 years ago ????

They will stay in the 1x server without being noticed despite the fact they are now being historical photos, it is unfair for both the photos and thier photographers, I suggest a baner in the upper area of the main gallery or whatever you find suitable titled 10 years ago in 1x.com or published in this day 10 years ago.

Objective context in the curation progress area, i.e. entire amount of votes, amount of declined/accepted votes or whatever you can think of to compare the subjective indicators with objective parameters.

For example; having an amount with the percentages in the pie chart areas of improvement and having the entire amount of votes would help me in determining the weight of that area, since curators can also skip those buttons all together while curating.

Furthermore I'd like to see the popularity percentages indicators in or compared to objective parameters as well, because I'm struggling with the interpretation of those indicators.

Many thanks in advance for taking all of this into consideration.

In the curating area: more options under What curators like and Areas of improvement. This would help member curators to finetune their feedback and nuance their choices without having to comment. On the member curated side it could give more insight in areas of improvement and allow more direct asking for critique afterwards.

An alternative could be; setting a limit to the number of curated photos without motivating the choices under What curators like and Areas of improvement.

Hi Crew, any chance we can have "Aerial Photography" category? The field grew up so much during last few years with advances in drone technology.
Often shots taken from the air (plane/heli/drone) do not fit exactly into one category and frequently fall between  "Landscape"  and "Abstract" so perhaps it is a time to have a section for aerial shots?  Thanks, Andro

I would like to be able to translate and read the comments by right clicking on the photos, as was possible on 1x Classic ... thank you very much!

Hello Jacob

There are many things I miss from "Classic 1x"

- The distinction between 'published' and 'awarded'. I would like to know which photos were both published and awarded, not merely published.

Published has now become 'chopped liver'. Awarded is what counts and the photos should be marked in some way.

- The number of views an image in curation has recieved.

-Often," what curators like" and "areas for improvement" are identical. This does not make sense. Is there some way to refine those graphs?

-The scroll bar is hypersensative and invisable on a PC

I appreciate that you and Ralf are always working to improve 1x and I get that ease of use on mobile devises is essential but as a long time

user, major changes like "published" vs "published & awarded" do not make sense ..other than the illusion that the community has a voice

in selection. It doesn't.  1x's appeal and strength has always been 'professional' curation. Why not stregthen that concept rather than delute

it with so called community invovement?

Peace

Hello Jane

You can see if a photo is awarded by the "awarded" badge below the like button.

The number of views might return - we are discussing it internally. 

One problem with showing the view numbers is that it generates lots of confusion. We want to show unique views, but in some countries, all requests are sent through gateways that has the same IP numbers, which cause the unique views counter to not properly count up. That way, an image can appear to have less views than it really has and members are worried that their images aren't getting the right amount of votes in curation.

I am currently reworking the unique views algorithm to solve this problem and once it is done, we might add it to the photo viewer.

Regards

Jacob

How come if you are only allowed one image in curation at a time I see obviously the same photographers work over and over, owls with a mouse, bee eaters and a lady in a blue and white dress come to mind.

Will the follow option be available in the mobile version of the page? Can't seem to find it there, while it does appear in the desktop version.

Edit: Never mind, just found it!

Edit 2: It doesn't appear in every account in the mobile version, how come?

A third level of exposure in the personal PRO member profile for work that didn't make it through curation. Currently there's a (not yet working) back door for this work, direct access to the portfolio by using https://username.1x.com. I would very much like for this to be accessible through the PRO member's about page. That way it doesn't have to end up in the front page galleries, but the member can still display a portfolio of his/her choosing.

I miss the stats of my own photos, is there a way to find those in gamma?

Why search button disappeared from a new version? How to find a photographer or photo now? Honestly, a new version of 1x is not user friendly anymore. A lot of photographers write to me asking for endless questions how to find something on website. I am a former web developer and very frustrated with a new site. You have to keep in mind that you have international users and not everyone speaks English. New design is not user friendly at all. 

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Hi Luba, the search option is now in the menu on the left, just underneath the 1x logo.

Thank you for resolving one of the problem!

How can a photography related site does not even allow to use thumbnails to open the desired image. The current look is nothing short of trash to put it mildly. and the fact that team is bulldozing every input on that front just stinks.. 

Unfortunately nothing seems to be right with current look, feel and ease of brwsing through the site.. 

Hi Jassi, make yourself familiar with the new site before complaining.

Click "thumbs" (below POPULAR) and you'll get the desired thumbnails.

And if you had chosen DARKMODE in your profile settings, then you have exactly the same look as in the classic 1x version.

Would it be possible to allow votings on thumbnails in addition to poster size gallery photos? It would be more logical to display the photos in large format during the curation.

Best regards to all.

Francesco

Hans Martin Doelz

Jassi Oberai

How can a photography related site does not even allow to use thumbnails to open the desired image.

Hi Jassi, make yourself familiar with the new site before complaining.

 

Click "thumbs" (below POPULAR) and you'll get the desired thumbnails.

 

And if you had chosen DARKMODE in your profile settings, then you have exactly the same look as in the classic 1x version.

 

 

Hi Hans, do these thumbs work while browsing through my own gallery as well? 

No, not yet.

Ralf stated (one or two weeks ago) that this feature will be implemented as soon as possible. Until then member profiles are only presented in flow mode.

I agree with you Daniel.

Regards ,Sas

I believe this has already been implemented, please see the screenshot below. The only thing I noticed on another profile though is that the number of published works on top didn't match the actual amount underneath.

Gerda J. Hoogerwerf

Saskia Dingemans

Daniel Springgay

I love the Profile Data that used to be in classic. Can we have some of it in Gamma -

 

When I open a profile I would like to see how many published images that member has.

What part of the world they come from.

 

I agree with you Daniel.

Regards ,Sas

 

I believe this has already been implemented, please see the screenshot below. The only thing I noticed on another profile though is that the number of published works on top didn't match the actual amount underneath.

 

Is this how it appears on your phone? On my desktop that information is missing. Honestly, I never visit 1x on my phone so the improvements don't really help me at all. Hopefully, this information (number of published photos, country) will be implemented on the desktop version too.

Barbara Read

Gerda J. Hoogerwerf

Saskia Dingemans

Daniel Springgay

I love the Profile Data that used to be in classic. Can we have some of it in Gamma -

 

When I open a profile I would like to see how many published images that member has.

What part of the world they come from.

 

I agree with you Daniel.

Regards ,Sas

 

I believe this has already been implemented, please see the screenshot below. The only thing I noticed on another profile though is that the number of published works on top didn't match the actual amount underneath.

 

Is this how it appears on your phone? On my desktop that information is missing. Honestly, I never visit 1x on my phone so the improvements don't really help me at all. Hopefully, this information (number of published photos, country) will be implemented on the desktop version too.

Hi Barbara, yes, this was on my iPhone and I just checked on my laptop (desktop version) as well; there you'll find that same info when you click on 'About', just underneath the 'Follow' button on the right hand side of the gallery, under the name of the photographer. 
Hope this helps.

Kind regards!

Gerda J. Hoogerwerf

Barbara Read

Gerda J. Hoogerwerf

Saskia Dingemans

Daniel Springgay

I love the Profile Data that used to be in classic. Can we have some of it in Gamma -

 

When I open a profile I would like to see how many published images that member has.

What part of the world they come from.

 

I agree with you Daniel.

Regards ,Sas

 

I believe this has already been implemented, please see the screenshot below. The only thing I noticed on another profile though is that the number of published works on top didn't match the actual amount underneath.

 

Is this how it appears on your phone? On my desktop that information is missing. Honestly, I never visit 1x on my phone so the improvements don't really help me at all. Hopefully, this information (number of published photos, country) will be implemented on the desktop version too.

Hi Barbara, yes, this was on my iPhone and I just checked on my laptop (desktop version) as well; there you'll find that same info when you click on 'About', just underneath the 'Follow' button on the right hand side of the gallery, under the name of the photographer. 
Hope this helps.

 

Kind regards!

Thanks so much Gerda for pointing me in the right direction. I hadn't thought to check there. 🙂

Barbara Read

Gerda J. Hoogerwerf

Barbara Read

Gerda J. Hoogerwerf

Saskia Dingemans

Daniel Springgay

I love the Profile Data that used to be in classic. Can we have some of it in Gamma -

 

When I open a profile I would like to see how many published images that member has.

What part of the world they come from.

 

I agree with you Daniel.

Regards ,Sas

 

I believe this has already been implemented, please see the screenshot below. The only thing I noticed on another profile though is that the number of published works on top didn't match the actual amount underneath.

 

Is this how it appears on your phone? On my desktop that information is missing. Honestly, I never visit 1x on my phone so the improvements don't really help me at all. Hopefully, this information (number of published photos, country) will be implemented on the desktop version too.

Hi Barbara, yes, this was on my iPhone and I just checked on my laptop (desktop version) as well; there you'll find that same info when you click on 'About', just underneath the 'Follow' button on the right hand side of the gallery, under the name of the photographer. 
Hope this helps.

 

Kind regards!

Thanks so much Gerda for pointing me in the right direction. I hadn't thought to check there. 🙂

 

😊 You're most welcome!

Hi there, one of the winning points of this platform has always been the curation process. Now, I think that three days or more to wait for a photo to be curated and not being able to submit to curation any other has made this process too long and very tiring. There is a high risk that people will lose interest. I understand the need of making this process more agile but the shift from 80 pictures curated a month to 8/10 is IMO too much. I would suggest reducing the curation time to 1 day only or alternatively, to be able to submit 3 pictures at a time. Best wishes

Can't find the photographers "Description" or other details of the photo anymore.

I am curious as to what prompted such drastic changes in the site.  All the comments I have read so far seem negative, and you seem to be struggling to reach the same level of functionality you had with the old version.  I don't see the benefits of the new site.  I predict you will loose many subscribers.  Good Luck.

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Hi Joe,

A new thread with development roadmap will be posted shortly. Stay tuned!

Hi 

I believe this topic was already raised but I don't think it was adressed.

I suggest to have an option within the latest published photos to sort them by publishing date rather than by popularity. 

It is very difficult to see the latest published as some of them are pushed down.

Thank for responding.

Guy

Hello Guy

You're right, I actually noticed that this was not always respected. Having said that, today it looks okay.

The menu is called "LATEST published", so it should really show the LATEST at the top of the page.

Thanks to Jacob for confirming that the algorithm is now RELIABLE and that it works well.

Greetings, Eric

Thank you.

Can you please delete the comments from curation. They are pointless and anonomous I am finding them as a turn off to wanting to post as I cant answer or complain about the comment. 

I find those coments useful, some very constructive. It's might be better to have an ability to reply to them, but still keeping the anonymity.

When I comment in curation ( I rarely "curate" ) I not only leave constructive comments, but also my name. And as far as I've seen lately on my own work, more and more people do that. Maybe we could all just do that - at  least who's open for it. Lead by example more or less and it may become more common.

Being able to respond would be easier, of course.

I wouldn't want anonymous comments on my own photographs, so when I comment in member curation I leave my name.  The comments are 'critique-lite', and I remind members that there are two places to get critique now at 1X Gamma.  At 'Forums>Critique', ( https://1x.com/forum/critique ) there are Senior Critics waiting to give in-depth analysis and comments.   

Hi everyone! 

Lately the curation insights have become more visible, from my point of view. 

I want to thank all the curators who gave me valuable advices, and showed me on some shots where there's still place for improvement. 

It happened on my last photo (which was not published and at least I understand why and respect that) that I got this kind of feedback and I wanted to reply to their suggestions but I couldn't. 

Therefore, I think it would be great if the developer of 1x will facilitate this option. What do you think? 

Hi Marius,

You mean "Slightly shy"or "Closed at 5"? Either way, I would love to see them in the critique forum, which now can be found here: https://1x.com/forum/critique.

Yeah, those two too.

On the other hand, there is no need to put the first one into critique since I understood the reasons for being rejected. I only put into forum the ones where I don't figure it out, as my last one there few months ago.

The second one was uploaded before a few months ago, and I took into consideration the advices (which were pertinent) and I have cropped it accordingly.

Personally, I think the new version is the death of 1x .. I don't think I own to subscribe to the subscription as I did earlier I'm a user since 2010 I think and I also think I'm canceling the account. I'm very sorry for me 1x it was important .. you created a great community 

...........

miriana 

I think the score system is still not working. My latest had 0% for Expert curators and 99% going down to 17% on member votes. All of the sudden it was 71% and 59% and published a few hours later. It's not relevant till the end... unfortunately.

Mike

....

btw: Can´t find "Mood" in the "Selection categorie" after uploading. Not commercial enough ?

Regards

As far as I could see, you got 33 photos "awarded", probably more than 50% of your (shown/published) portfolio. So what did you expect? Space on the front page is limited, and some decisions may just have favoured other works over yours the day curators had a look at it.

There is nothing wrong with a getting a "silver medal"(published), but not the "gold"(awarded).  Awarded is the best-of-the-best.

"Why should I pay to give someone the power to tell me what is worth showing and what is not. Really?"

The publication and awarding process in this website is very well explained in the FAQs section, so honestly I don't understand from where your surprise is coming from.

Hi,

I don't know about Miriana, but when I subscribed to 1x the publication system was totally different (and the curation process by the way). No one asked the already paying members about the new process. What happened is that I found myself paying for a demo version which I don't like. Of course I didn't renew my PRO account. George

George, that was the old 1x. I'm myself a subscriber for 8 years or something, the old site was different that's all.

But I'm quite confident that everybody noticed that quite a bit of changes happened lately in 1x.. moreover isn't much of a news, as the new system is in place for several months now.

Of course you're free to don't pay for something you don't like, but being "surprised" and complaining about something that is in place for months and after dozen of published and awarded photos (I'm not referring to you here), well I find it bizarre. Just my opinion, anyone is free to do wherever they want.

Please don't forget the "classic" version of 1x has been running in parallel until 5-6 weeks ago. Many people did not use the new version till the very end of "portfolios". 

The anouncement was the old one would not be switched off until all features were available in new 1x. Then there was a notification there will be a list of features that will be adopted. I reminded management this list is overdue, and the reply said it will be posted the week later. But till today, and we're talking 6-8 weeks now, it wasn't posted. I even started a list months ago what features I'd miss, and other users tuned in with their requirements. You can see it here:

https://1x.com/forum/site-related/before-you-shut-down-classic-can-we-have

This thread was closed, the ideal "laundry list" for "new 1x" improvements to become at least partially what 1x classic was...

I understand about the missing features, but than again the fact that 2 different versions were "alive" means that.. also this one was. I mean, complaining about what was clear already is quite pointless, unless someone doesn't care to read the new rules and stuff. Pretty much everybody knew that the new 1x would have had curation for every picture even for those into the profile ones. There's been several dozen of messages about that topic.

Btw I don't want to be polemic, just I don't really see the point here. But it's fine.

Well, since this is the suggestions thread, I'll repeat my wish here.

Would it be difficult to implement the entire amount of votes and the amount of votes in favor of the photo or rejecting the photo in the curation process? I'd really like to see some objective indicators added.

Kind regards!

Indeed, I noticed this also, now I upload the photo in another category and change it afterwards in mood.

Hi Mike,

I used to be a paid member of 1x, but I am no longer a paid member anymore since this site changed to this new layout, on top of the long curation wait time (which seems recently got resolved) , I do feel the chance that my works got published is lowered significantly. Before the new site, statically, every 3 photos that I got higher than 50% rating in the old system, at least 1 of them would get published. This was the statistic from my more than 5 years of joining 1x. However, with the new rating system and the inclusion of unlimited members (who could got awarded whenever they have a published photo), my chance of getting my higher than 50%rating photo got awarded was reduced to more than 13 to 1. That is, I could only get 1 photo awarded after 13 photo being published. This is a reduction from 33% to around 3% of my photo that got rating higher than 50% in the old system. That's why I gave up updating my membership because I just felt the already hard standard to get into the front page now getting 10 times harder statistically.

Hi Mozart,

Well, that's a lot of number crunching and rather theoretical. Do you feel you have improved your photography skills over these 5 years? Your subjects, architectural abstracts, portraits and landscape did not change as afr as I can see from published works. But your work became harder, more contrastly, sometimes over-sharpened. If that's your style and what you currently like, all fine. But maybe curators like it more moody, not so hard maybe?
I think the most important thing is you enjoy the creative aspect of photography. What do the numbers give you at the end. I don't go out and shoot a photo for 1x, I do it because I like to challenge myself. Get something, find something, overcome obstacles with light or perspectives...

But it's of course your decision what is important to you and what you will pay for.  Everything published is potentially sold at least, do you sell photos? I have my "Critique" forum here and that's my most valuable part of 1x.

Just thoughts...

Mike

In the Classic version, I could see who had liked my photo. In the new 1x, I only see the number, but not the person. Or am I mistaken?

Click on the number and it wil show you the members that liked the image.

Thank you Omar :) !!

Thanks for the reply, Elisabeth !

You can click on the numer of likes, than you see the names who liked your photo. I am not sure if the names are linked to their profile though. That would be great so we can check out their profile

No problem. I do not know however if it affects the curationprocess, sometimes I forget and change it halfways. The mood category should also be selectable in the upload section.

Hi Ina, 

where can you see the number of likes??

I only see percentages...

And can someone explain to me what an unlimited member is?

kind regards

Ulrike

Hi Ulrike,

If you open (click on) your photo it's underneath, next to the heart. 

An unlimited member is here on invitation and doesn't have to go through curation.

Kind regards!

ah  thank you , I mixed up the nuber of votes with likes, sorry, kind regards

Ulrike 

Hello fellow 1Xers

It would be nice to have a finer graduation of the curation process, the precentage updating more often or in real time, and a live vote counter that updates in real time also.  The curation system is much improved these days, in my opinion of course. Now I get a picture published or rejected within two days instread of 5-7 days. Im finding myself more involved with the site than ever before and it's enjoyable.

Regards

Omar

Tiny none crucial idea for you today but still, it would be really cool to have a better dark mode implementation:

- Member Profiles : despite i've chosen to have my profile in dark, visitors are seeing on a white background, no matter what

- Member Certificates : dark versions would be also appreciated by many i'm sure since as you know, some images don't really work, loosing too many details when white framed, especially in a small format.

Hopefully i didn't miss an already existing setting 😉

My suggestion is that the exhibitions, whether personal or joint, be divided into rooms of for example 20 photos, starting with room1, when is full room2 ... etc. In other words, if we have a list of 2018 photos, there will be 101 rooms (101,100,99,98,97 ..... 4,3,2,1).

New discovery for me, I find this platform very interesting. I just have a quick question: when I submit a photo, I noticed a desaturation of plus or minus 20% compared to the original photo and on my correctly calibrated screen. Thank you for making me discover something that I do not know yet. Good photos to all. Philippe Laruelle Belgium

Phillipe,

Are you viewing your photos on your calibrated monitor in sRGB profile,  or in another profile like Adobe RGB or ProPhoto RGB?  The choice of profile can make a difference in colours and tones.  If you're viewing in sRGB on your screen and the photos are noticeably different when viewed on 1X, then all I can suggest is that you contact support at [email protected]

I know that images are re-sized and compressed by the website, but I don't think they tinker with saturation/sharpening/contrast/etc.

- Steven

Thank you very much, I think you may have the answer to my question. I am using the Adobe RGB profile and I think the platform is using the sRGB. Thanks for the great info.

I suggest to have a Follow icon under photos, so we can follow the photographer directly.

When I click on any photowork of the artist, it is opened at the same page of the gallery flow. When I try to return back to the gallery flow page; it doesn't return. So, I lose where I am left.

Did anybody knows how much the per cent of the PUBLISHED images per day if we knows it is less than 0.5% of the images recived are AWARDED ?

It seems that the mood category has been removed? All my mood category photo's have been marked 'no category selected' in my image list section. And I cannot select this category anymore while uploading or later in the process. Is there a specific reason to remove this category ?

thanks.

Off topic?

This message reached me today. Frankly, it seems a bit much to me... Anyway, I'll comply...

Best regards to all,

Francesco

Francesco Del Santo PRO

Off topic?

 

This message reached me today. Frankly, it seems a bit much to me... Anyway, I'll comply...

Best regards to all,

Francesco

😳 Francesco, what did you write?

It's shown Gerda, "Congrats, Manuel"... bizarre.

Francesco Del Santo PRO

Off topic?

 

This message reached me today. Frankly, it seems a bit much to me... Anyway, I'll comply...

Best regards to all,

Francesco

very strange

😂 Oh, yes, now I see. Ridiculous!

Francesco Del Santo PRO

Off topic?

 

This message reached me today. Frankly, it seems a bit much to me... Anyway, I'll comply...

Best regards to all,

Francesco

Hi Francesco,

Welcome to the world of Franz Kafka!😬

You have entered the Matrix.😁

AL

Dear Gerda, today I can see a 'Report' button below the comments next to the 'Reply' button. Perhaps due to an oversight Manuel may inadvertently click on 'Report' instead of 'Reply'...

Al Pakulat PRO

Francesco Del Santo PRO

Off topic?

 

This message reached me today. Frankly, it seems a bit much to me... Anyway, I'll comply...

Best regards to all,

Francesco

Hi Francesco,

Welcome to the world of Franz Kafka!😬

You have entered the Matrix.😁

AL

Hi dear Al,

Today I can see a 'Report' button below the comments next to the 'Reply' button. Perhaps due to an oversight one can inadvertently click on 'Report' instead of 'Reply'... Unless some algorithm considers 'congrats' as a kind of spam, like the comment consisting only of 'nice', 'good', etc...

Anyway, I've entered the Matrix. :-))

Francesco

Yes, that's indeed possible, but I did read somewhere that those reports are being checked by the 1x team before being addressed with the person commenting. Well, I seem to have a problem with reading properly nowadays, so maybe that took place in my imagination. 😆

Have a great weekend!

No, you’re right, I read that too. Perhaps it means we are no longer allowed congratulatory comments and other pleasantries, but only very deeply meaningful comments, like “I appreciate the subtle chrominance and the recondite harmony governing your composition according to the divine rules of Pythagorean golden ratio" 😂😉

Eden Antho

Have a great wekend too, dear Gerda ! :-)

Thank you, Eden. :-)

I don't quite understand this way of proceeding. Mr. Jon Doe sends in a photo for curation, which is given the award by the head curators. I come in, in good faith, and congratulate him on that. Or didn't it say that it is not allowed to criticize the decisions of the head curators? Next time I'll make a report for this unfair treatment...

Best regrads to all,

Francesco

Ulrike Eisenmann PRO

still I cannot see how these pie charts could be valuable, in particular because the distribution between like and do not like for one topic is missing, eg 80% say mood is something they like, 20% they do not like the mood, or in other words, 5 people could have produced the right chart, 40 the left chart, we do not know,

 

have a nice evening

 

 

I agree! I think it will be more useful to show categry wise what % of curators like and what % is the the recommended for improvement.

Visually, it should be easily done in a bar chart (each bar representing the category) and each bar divided into two parts (like/dislike).

Also, in the  curation clock, I dont know if it is really making sense to show two clocks (moe popular than other photos and specific categories). I have never seen any vairation between those two percentages.

maybe the report button below the comments during curation could have warning color, like red, such that it is not clicked by an error ( as I did 5 min ago) , because normally you find there the reply button, 

best regards

ulrike

It would be nice to have a "supporit photograph" section under the published or awarded photo. It would be a behind the scenes type of photography, for example showing the setup behind the picture, the photgrapher after a long day in the field or something similiar. The support photos would not have to be curated in the same way as other picures, just to make sure they are relevant to the understanding of the making of the main published/awarded photo.

It could be two or three photographs shown as tumbnails under the main image or the format would be choosen by the owner of the paige or gallery. Some people might think it would be distracing, they could choose to disable this feature. I think it would add some depth and understanding of what it can look like behind the scenes, especially for photographers looking at images outside of their own expertise.

My regards

Omar

I would love to have an app on my phone just to see other people images, maybe choosing a tag/category, like and curate.

Very imple app, no upload is needed.

Thank you!

Kindly if any one knows where to report a weird or malfunctioned score system of an image curation ? 

thank you so much in advance .

I still don't know how the AI score works.  It seems to be in a contradiction most of the time and would score low on the accuracy scale.  I made a comment months ago, but just got the still in work response. It makes it difficult to know how this helps me.  Shot was Awarded with high scores.

Dear Ralf, and Jacob

I want to be able to download my own photos from my own portfolio.

Why I can not do that ?

It should be .

Good light.

it would be nice to be able to answer to "Curation comments".

Ulrike Eisenmann PRO

still I cannot see how these pie charts could be valuable, in particular because the distribution between like and do not like for one topic is missing, eg 80% say mood is something they like, 20% they do not like the mood, or in other words, 5 people could have produced the right chart, 40 the left chart, we do not know,

 

have a nice evening

 

 

I get confused when  see I need "to improve" on something that is also "what the curators like" :)

Ugo Grandolini PRO

Ulrike Eisenmann PRO

still I cannot see how these pie charts could be valuable, in particular because the distribution between like and do not like for one topic is missing, eg 80% say mood is something they like, 20% they do not like the mood, or in other words, 5 people could have produced the right chart, 40 the left chart, we do not know,

 

have a nice evening

 

 

I get confused when  see I need "to improve" on something that is also "what the curators like" :)

Interesting, I thought I was the only one confused:)

Today, I saw a report on one of my imgaes - where 100% What curators liked is Composition BUT 40% Areas Of Improvement is Composition:) - Sounds like a joke to me!!!

I feel - the Submission and Curation Proecess needs serious overhaul - For example - If I submit an image on Sunday night of any week - I get the result of the same say by Wednesday mid day - say on an average 3 days!!! 

I am sure we receive 100's of thousands of images per day and how many members seriously do spend time every day in curation? I for one seriously try on a weekly basis - however in most cases I am not sure we are doing justice to really look at details of the photo - as unless we make it a point we do not see the details of the image by default - we only see Dislike, Publish or one other sublime button. That's no fair decision for a photographer who has spend a lot of time and  efforts to get rejection - just because we didn't spend enough time understanding his photo - and getting rejected can be very demoralising for him. 

I see in previous notes some suggestions of finding out where the photographer has come from or how many photos he/she has published - this should NOT be a criterea - how does it matter where the photographer came from or How many photos he/she has published? it may be Zero published but the photo he/she submitted is a million doller photo - are we going to reject it just because he/she has none published so far? - This kind of thinking should be strictly avoided.

I feel Curation and submission should be totally separate - example - one can submit X number of photos a week - X should be definitely more than 1 and less than or equal to 5. Curation - deadline shoud be extended to maybe TWO or Three Weeks - I bet most of the photos don't see the light of the published day because they dont even get seen by many people, as it is needed. Also, FINAL decision of getting a Photo Published cannot be JUST ON STAFF OR SENIOR CURATORS - It should have a combination of both - let me think of the algorithm for the same.  I feel we are NOT giving enough time for curation and NOT motivating for users to do curation, maybe the submission of NEW Photo should be tied to how many curations one has done - just a thought.

Finally just so every one is clear, this is a note I wrote is my sincere effort to make this site even better than what it is today and nothing else.

Hello! 
I'd like to suggest another point to add to the areas of improvement or the things we can like about the image during curation: color.

I think the use of colors and the choice for (or the tonality in) black and white can make or image break an image. Why can't we evaluate an image on color (or tonality in b/w images)?

yours Elisabeth

Ugo Grandolini PRO

Ulrike Eisenmann PRO

still I cannot see how these pie charts could be valuable, in particular because the distribution between like and do not like for one topic is missing, eg 80% say mood is something they like, 20% they do not like the mood, or in other words, 5 people could have produced the right chart, 40 the left chart, we do not know,

 

have a nice evening

 

 

I get confused when  see I need "to improve" on something that is also "what the curators like" :)

I've always found this very confusing, the feature would be more useful if it showed a percentage of votes given so you could understand how to bias the critique. At the moment its basically useless.

I'm  photographer I post my very best images in Selection hoping get them Published and Awarded like all others on this platform - Take yeserday a wonderful image of mine was rejected like many other images that day - To me that image was very special and I really would have loved to add to my portfolio - But no rejected - I bet many other photographers feel the same as I do right now so here is my suggestion - 

All Pro paid up members are give a " Wildcard " only one evey six months - This " Wildcard " then used gives free passage to any rejected image so that photographer can add that same image to his or her Portfolio - In other words it gets published but not awared - It can even be flagged as a " Wildcard " image so we can all see and enjoy the movement. - If it's awared at a later date by the head curators great. 

Awarded picture should be labled as awarded while looking at someones profile. It shows when you click on a specific picture, otherwise not. 

1X should also have an application not only a website 

This will make its use more easier. 

Also curation feedback should be available rather than a pie chart which is not logic in most of the cases.

Pro members pay not only to publish and sell photos but also to learn and fine tune their talent.

Regards.

plus one on this

I've been here for two months now and am enjoying the site and community. A few suggestions that would make things even better:

1. Ability to submit collections of images that tell a story. Yes, there are Exhibitions, but those require each and every photo to be submitted and published. There are some images that may not be strong enough to stand on their own, but play a role in supportting a story or as a part of a broader theme. I'd envision something where you could submit up to 10 photos along with an artist statement, and they'd be submitted for curation just like single images. 
   
   
2.  A category, alongside Awarded and Published, for Popular images. I've noticed, as I'm sure others have as well, that many photos I've submitted are popular with members only to be rejected by official curators. I feel this results in a fairly limited range of image styles and subject matter that the official curatorrs favor. The Awarded section for me is starting to feel a little predicatable and boring. I'd love to see more variety on the site. What's the point of member curation if the process has very little imact on what gets published. 

Sunil Kulkarni PRO

Ugo Grandolini PRO

Ulrike Eisenmann PRO

still I cannot see how these pie charts could be valuable, in particular because the distribution between like and do not like for one topic is missing, eg 80% say mood is something they like, 20% they do not like the mood, or in other words, 5 people could have produced the right chart, 40 the left chart, we do not know,

 

have a nice evening

 

 

I get confused when  see I need "to improve" on something that is also "what the curators like" :)

Interesting, I thought I was the only one confused:)

Today, I saw a report on one of my imgaes - where 100% What curators liked is Composition BUT 40% Areas Of Improvement is Composition:) - Sounds like a joke to me!!!

I feel - the Submission and Curation Proecess needs serious overhaul - For example - If I submit an image on Sunday night of any week - I get the result of the same say by Wednesday mid day - say on an average 3 days!!! 

I am sure we receive 100's of thousands of images per day and how many members seriously do spend time every day in curation? I for one seriously try on a weekly basis - however in most cases I am not sure we are doing justice to really look at details of the photo - as unless we make it a point we do not see the details of the image by default - we only see Dislike, Publish or one other sublime button. That's no fair decision for a photographer who has spend a lot of time and  efforts to get rejection - just because we didn't spend enough time understanding his photo - and getting rejected can be very demoralising for him. 

I see in previous notes some suggestions of finding out where the photographer has come from or how many photos he/she has published - this should NOT be a criterea - how does it matter where the photographer came from or How many photos he/she has published? it may be Zero published but the photo he/she submitted is a million doller photo - are we going to reject it just because he/she has none published so far? - This kind of thinking should be strictly avoided.

I feel Curation and submission should be totally separate - example - one can submit X number of photos a week - X should be definitely more than 1 and less than or equal to 5. Curation - deadline shoud be extended to maybe TWO or Three Weeks - I bet most of the photos don't see the light of the published day because they dont even get seen by many people, as it is needed. Also, FINAL decision of getting a Photo Published cannot be JUST ON STAFF OR SENIOR CURATORS - It should have a combination of both - let me think of the algorithm for the same.  I feel we are NOT giving enough time for curation and NOT motivating for users to do curation, maybe the submission of NEW Photo should be tied to how many curations one has done - just a thought.

Finally just so every one is clear, this is a note I wrote is my sincere effort to make this site even better than what it is today and nothing else.

I can see that the curation pie chart is misleading and not helpful at all, also the curation process now took longer time than usual, why can't we post more than one photo for curation as Pro members??

And why should the curation lasts more than 24 hrs to finish for one photo??

Daniel...great suggestion. Too, I have some amazing images, that slip into the 'rejected' slot. I know the curators are looking for specific images to their liking...its very subjective, not onjective.  I think it should be more objective !! Your suggestion of a wildcard is, indeed, a breath of fresh air . However, the caveat here , people may add images that are really sub grade, and would bring down the 'value' of 1x.com. Im conflicted, but there is merit to your suggestion !! 

I might have missed this - In Selection I can see what category each images is posted in. But once an image is published I can't or can I. - I take a strong interest in all published images even the one's I never had a chance to vote on - So I would like to see what categories they started out in... Being a Senior Critic I'm just bloody nosey....

Hi, I would like to ask the 1x team wether it is possible to add a mark to the notifications after one have read it.
In fact, when I have lots of notifications whose title is the same (e.g. "You have received a new photo critique") and I go reading them, I always loose the point where I was arrived through the list. So, e.g. you could colour in red the already opened notifications, or place a bullet or any other sort of mark, next to the opened notifications, so to make them recognizable.

Thanks a lot,
Gianluca

Hi again, can you add a "Most sold" gallery, in order to study which kind of images sells more?
Thanks,
Gianluca

The drop-down menu for selecting the cathegory when uploading new photos contains less categories than those in the gallery...

Here all the galleries:

 

And here the possible selections when uploading:

 

So, how can I submit photos to CONCEPTUAL, EVERYDAY, HUMOR, or MOOD categories?

Hi,

Could you add a more popular than button for the single categories. Stating x percent more popular in landscape for example? Currently the more popular percentages for all or the categories only are always the same, which obviously cannot be true, think the right pie chart also only displays more popular in comparison to all pictures,

kind regarfs

ulrike

same feeling here Daniel...

does this platform generate any sales at all?

Yes, it does. But not every photographic genre is likely to be bought. I can tell you from own experience here that landscapes and macros sell, portraits or street photography does less to not at all.

Do you sell your work on other platforms, Ugo? I had a look at your work and I have my doubts this is what people buy in fineart print shops. That's where 1x sells, by partners selling prints.

I wouldn't blame 1x for not selling. If you would like a physical gallery to show and sell your work, probably you approached one likely to appreciate your style and art, isn't it? Because there you can expect the right audience and buyers.

Can we have a "search" button in Members area. It is imposible to go and find a specific photographer whos name I found by checking who liked my photo.  The other solution for this would be if you alowed a link directly from the alerts dropdown list. I don't know why that hasn't been done as a default solution. When I find the message that 'XX added your photo to favourites' very often I want to go and check who that person is.  If there is no link from the message or, at least, a possibility to go to members area and search for the person how do you look one up?

I hope someone is reading these suggestions because from the total lack of response for other constructive sugestions surely doesn't seem like that.

All the best,

Branko

If you go to the photo the other member liked, click on the number next to the heart, this person is on top of the list. There you can click his or her name, and see the portfolio.

regards,

Mike

Thanks Mike, I'll use that. Still, it would be really nice to have the search function inside the Members page. The old site had it.

After years being a member I know quite a few 1X photographers by name and if I want quickly to find any one of them to check the portfolio it is impossible to look up. 

Regards, 

Branko 

I suggest that you ban AI generated images.

I do shoot digital as well as analog.

But the analog pictures have a differnt feel and look... and quite often due to the equipment a less technical perfection as sharpness is different or lenses draw a differnt looking image (even if perfectly focused). Thus I find it hard to compete them against the modern digital shots. 

Add a section "analog" or "film" and mark them when being curated as such.

When will we see some of these changes incorporated?

I would like to have a button with which you can see the photos of the members that follow you. It is a little cumbersome to always choose them.

To know popularity of published pictures we actually have only the possibility to put it as "favoured" or ignore it. What about an other possibility to let know also the number of "not liked". Sometimes you don't put it on your 'favoured' just because the picture's not 'eye catching to you, but you dont really 'dislike' it ... I would say that a choice of 1) Like it very much, 2) not bad but doesn't touch me 3) don't like it at all. I'm talking about PUBLISHED pictures.  

I have three suggestions or requests.

1.  As someone who curates almost every day, I reject some photos for only a slight issue. So it would be nice to have a button that states something like, "Almost."

2. In the "feelings" critique, I wish you would add another dozen or so choices.

3. I would get rid of the pie charts.

Thank you.

Would be nice to get a notification when one of my images have been sold. This would be a QoL feature rather than a must have done. Also, would be nice to know whether the image was sold either on here or one of the partner / affiliate companies (if that info is available) so that it gives us an idea of the target audience where our images are being sold to. The last one would be a nice to know when the image was sold. This is a nice to have rather than a must have.

It's probably a matter of forum posting management...

I am glad if critique forum was devided into several sub-rooms, and each of them have limitation to post.

For ex., for beginners, for high level photographers, and for others...

Beginners might be who only got less than 10 awards, or high level photographers should be the ones who won more than 100 awards for example...

The threshold should be considered, of course.

Current introduction of critique forum, it may read as if the forum was open for everyone in 1x.

Me, one of beginners, afraid to make critics spend time and feel bothered with basic and low level questions.

Thank you.

Nekogesaku,

The Critique Forum is open to all members.   Period.  We try our best to help those just starting in photography as well as the professionals.  We learn from each other as we exchange ideas and opinions.  

Your idea for dividing the Critiqe into sections is interesting.  You could write to Support about it. 

. . .  Steven T.

Hi both,

I think for an experienced photographer it's pretty clear from the photo submitted to critique whether it is a photo by a beginner or another experienced member.

I can tell you in less than a second most of the time and don't see a need to have these in different sections.

Regards,

Mike

Salve, in merito alla funzionalità del sito ritengo sia molto utile il pulsante "torna su" nelle pagine delle "Gallerie" e "Rivista" per evitare di dovere scorre con la rotella del mouse. 

Well, I first came to 1x 12+ years ago and returned recently. Things are very different and I have more suggestions and some questions than I can put into this post, but I'll do my best:

- Forum posts should be listed by recent first to avoid too much scrolling (this threat is one example of that);

- I would like my feed to always show "Latest" images, but it always defaults to the option "your feed". A way to lock my preference would be much appreciated;
- There's no good way to navigate between photos on my feed. If I open one, I have to go to my browser's back button to be able to get back on my feed and keep scrolling. A good option is to open in a lightbox with some interactive buttons (go to author profile, follow, add to favorites). This would solve another problem I have, which is not being able to see the full image. My screen resolution is 2560x1440 and most images are cropped...
- Add a tag to see the category of an image; for example next to the favorite button. There are some heavily edited images that I assume are in the creative editing, but I would like to be sure; also the could be a link that gives easy access to more images in the same category;
- The awarded icon could also be a link to more awarded photos;
- I would much appreciate seeing the number of people who ended up voting during the curation process. Being able to know how many were positive and negative would be very good too. If I have a photo not selected, knowing 10 people found it to be worthy, even if in the end it was denied publishing, would give me some solace and might keep more people around.
- The left menu is buggy for me. It appears when I'm trying to click on a photo icon while in my directory; and sometimes when I want to actually access it it appears, disappears, and appears again. I understand wanting to keep the website minimal, but I much rather have it fixed and be able to use it without problems.

Some questions:
- For what I understand, there was a time when you could publish photos in your portfolio with it being submitted for curation.  This is not the case today, I believe. Do photos published during that time still up on people's profiles?

- Can I hide photos in my profile? As I stated, I published my first images here more than 12 years ago and most don't reflect my work today, but I don't want to delete them or lose my publish and award count. 

It's good to be back and see the community striving. I hope I can add some value too.

Hi, 

I want a petit improvement.

In the Curation - Statistics page, currently the following numbers are shown:

Number of votes/Photos published/Photos rejected/Correct decision/Incorrect decision/No decision yet

After my daily curating, I usually check "Number of votes" and "Correct decision", and culcurate my rate of accuracy of voting.

This morning, Number of votes: 167 and Correct decision: 134, thus my today's accuracy rate is approx. 80%.
(A little low percentate! I should be better...!)

My opinion is, that adding this "accuracy rate" in the statistics...
Of cource, it is easy and simple culcuration, it takes 5 second, but I want to see at a glance this rate.

Thank you.

Hi Luis,

You can set up an exhoibition and make this the default view for visitors. If you don't include your old work, members would have to go to "all photos" to find them, probably a few clicks too far away for most visitors.

Mike Kreiten thank you! I'll do that.

I don't see much movement in the forum... but I'll keep on give some suggestions that I think could improve the user experience.

- Add an "Exhibition" page. There could be a feature exhibition and an archive with past exhibits. This would keep a premium space for the artist featured and free up room on the gallery page. It's very annoying having to always scroll past the feature exhibit which you only use once, but it's always there...
- Easier access to my profile and my images with icons next to the notification and messages icons. These are the pages I visit most they're surprisingly difficult to access. In mobile is even a worst experience...

- Possibility to edit a comment (even if it's only in the first minutes after posting). I've caught a couple of mistakes in my writing and it's frustrating not being able to do anything about it. I can't even delete it and write again...

- Profile picture in the comment section. I understand the interest in keeping the design as clean as possible, but it's hard to remember all the people's name and having a picture next to the comment would go a long way to identify someone and keeping me from needing to always click and open their profile...

- Improve the users "my feed" page. The default page for a signed-in user not very personal. The first thing I see in mine is a big featured image with a call out for the Magazine. I don't believe that's the space for it. There would be much more useful and involving if we were to have access to some interaction data, such as latest comments received and given, latest likes recieved, best performing photos, number of profile views, etc. an improved version of the notification panel always accessible. This should improve interaction and keep people in the site for longer.

- In the curation progress page, the "More/Less popular" pies always display the same number in regards to "other photos" and "other [category]  photos". I would eliminate this one.
- In the curate page, is the publish animation intentional? It slows the curation votes down and for me, it's a bit annoying to the point I think twice if I really want to give it a publish rating because I know my eyes will be flashed with the green screen. Maybe to make people think twice is your intention, and if so it's clever, but please remove the green background. You can keep the slow animation, but the bright background is more unpleasant than it should...

- In the curate page, I would remove the "How does this photo make you feel?" The options seem too limited and not much informative. Every time I got something on my photos didn't help either. More confusing than anything...

It's enough for today!...

Hi team, 

I'd suggest to have a "Reply" button in the curation comments section, right now there is only a "Report" button, which I many times almost clicked on it by accident.

I think it is respectful to respond to someone who wrote you a very useful note...givng an example from one of my image:

Thanks for all your hard work.

Molly

Saludos. Creo que el sistema de curación debe de ser anónimo para salvaguardar la identidad y la libertad de votación. Cuando conoces al curador y la puntuación que te ha dado , se rompe el  justo equilibrio . Cuando votas no tienes que conocer al autor, para mantener la independencia, por la misma razón.

JA Ruiz Rivas I never said the curation should stop being anonymous. I completely agree that anonymity is essential to keep the liberty to vote. Something must have been lost in translation. The closest thing I said, and I stand by it, is that it would be good to have a tally of how many votes were made and how many were in favor of your photo being published. No need to see who made the votes.

What good is the "member curators" view on a photo? Is there any value in it? Something to learn from, worth taking into consideration or just nonsense? What curators like, areas of improvement - are these features any use, do they convey anything valuable at all?

This is from the curation process of one of my own photos. Quite confusing I should say... :-) A kind of Schrödinger's cat: both dead and alive at the same time, it depends who's looking at it and when :-)

Ludmila Shumilova PRO

What good is the "member curators" view on a photo? Is there any value in it? Something to learn from, worth taking into consideration or just nonsense? What curators like, areas of improvement - are these features any use, do they convey anything valuable at all?

This is from the curation process of one of my own photos. Quite confusing I should say... :-) A kind of Schrödinger's cat: both dead and alive at the same time, it depends who's looking at it and when :-)

 

1x wants to be like a "real" gallery - but I don't know any gallery that leaves the pre-selection to users. From my point of view, member/expert curation is complete nonsense.

Regards

Udo

Users are a heterogeneous population. The fact that they buy a membership to 1X doesn't necessarily mean they know what photography is about. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many appalling photos submitted for curation - probably at least 3/4. So preposterous results like the one I quoted above ( what curators like? 100% the composition - areas of improvement? 100% composition) do nothing to raise the quality of curation on this platform. I suppose somebody should reflect upon this.

Ludmila Shumilova Albeit schizophrenic, I still think there's value in the members voting. For example, the 100% agreement on your composition being great and also needing improvement tells me it's innovative. Some users found it refreshing and others didn't like you broke the rules. I am far?

I don't make my photos to only be appreciated by a select few experts. I appreciate the feedback from everyone even if their knowledge of photography and the history of photography is lacking. At the end of the day, I would love my images to be universally loved, an impossible goal, but a curious exercise to know your work better and understand what you like and what compromises are you willing to make to have a more commercial image. Let's not kid ourselves, all this process does (one where you can't upload a group of photos with a concept, and all that's seen and judged is a single image valued most for its technical attributes) is steer towards a conservative that can appeal to a wide audience.

I don't consider myself an artist, but my favorite images rarely got through curation. It's only when I do a conscious effort to submit something more "regular/predictable" that I have success.

once more ... it would be appreciable to have the possibility expressing also négatively concerning published (and/or awarded) pictures.  Actually the only possibility's to put 'favored' if you like, or ignore, but nothing provided if you don't like (or at least you aren't really touched) ?? 

Why isn't automatic translation used in the curation section to translate the comments into English as a matter of principle? With 100ASA this is possible and works great.

" How Does This Photo Make You Feel " list of "feelings" 

I have a suggestion for the list of "feelings" we are asked to choose from when we are curating pictures.

I think it would be very useful to add a box (a feeling) that would say BORED or INDIFFERENT . There are many many times that I don't choose a feeling in the list because they don't represent how a picture makes me feel, and boredom would definitely be one of them. 

I hope someone in the 1X team that made up this list reads this comment. I get the feeling that we write suggestions here and it is like expecting Santa Claus to read the letter we have sent him!!! Are we just talking among ourselves? Is there anybody out there taking notes of our suggestions ?

Lucie Gagnon Doesn't seem like anyone on the team cares about what we suggest... No answers and no changes are the main reason I'm not a paying member.

Regarding notifications:

The people who have added a photo as a favorite, for example, are named in the window with the notifications. When I click on the notification, I am taken to the photo. Would it be possible to set this up so that clicking on the name takes me to the person in question and clicking on the rest of the notification takes me to my photo? This is how it is set up on other websites (e.g. 100ASA) and, in my opinion, promotes the exchange between photographers.

Thank you!

During curation, I would like to have the possibility to view a photo in an higher resolution. The actual resolution of photos displayed to curators is too low and most of them appear lightly blurred.

At the same time, one of the votes requested during curation is "technical quality"; the question is, how can I evaluate technical quality on a low-resolution image?

I'm not saying to show high-resolution by default, but at least to provide a button or a click to have an higher resolution view.

The explanation to your case (100% improve composition+100% like the composition) is as follows: any photo is judged by hundreds of curators. During curation, a curator can optionally mark an area of improvement and an area of positive feedback.

Now, let's say for example that your photo passed 100 curators and all of them approved your photo; one of the curators said to improve composition, one other curator said he liked the composition. Resuming: you've got 100 votes, 1 improve comp, 1 like comp.

In the final statistics 1X then displays that 100% of comments in the area of improvement is on the composition and 100% of comments in the area of positive feedback is on the composition. This is how it works.

A possible proposal is to make it relative to the total number of votes; then the results shold be 100 votes, 1% suggest improve comp. and 1% like comp.

Hej,

i totally agree to this... 

Please change / modify / improve...

Thanks in advance..

Best

Rolf

Hej to all,

in the curation board i would like to have the possiblity to edit the last - maybe 3 - images to correct some wrong ratings i did. Sometimes i clicked the wrong button (reject / publish) and i can´t change this. 

I personally do not like the existing behavior so that i would enjoy a better solution.

Have a lovely day ahead!

Best regards,

Rolf

Hi,

Something funny is going on. I had a photo "not selected" but then 20 minutes later it was "published".

And another photo only received 2% but was published!

Have the criteria changed?

Sophie.

Regarding the login page: when I enter my password incorrectly, there is no option to see what I typed, requiring me to retype the password in its entirety. It would be nice if there was an option to see the password as entered. This is a common feature on many login pages, and it would eliminate the need to retype the entire password again. Thanks.

Is it possible that you can search by last name. Now you can only find someone by the first name. But a lot a people have the same one.

I miss the category creative, or creative in camera.  Because when I use icm or double exposure it's creative, but not creative editing 

I support this. My first name has only two letters which is to short for a search term. So nobody can find me by my last name but also not by my first name. I feel vvveerrrryyyy discriminated ;-) ;-) ;-)

If you put a space behind my first name it works. But how do you tell people?

And to be serious: In the Netherlands a lot of people tend to use last names in searches.

This has happened to me. I can speculate as to why but I wouldn't worry about it. What would be bad is if a photograph was published and 20 minutes later it was unpublished. I don't think this has ever happened. 

The ability to enter multi word tags would be useful. As it stands at the moment you can only enter one word tags. One of your print partners (fineartamerica.com) does allow multi word tags. If an image is being searched for on your print partner, it would give it a greater chance of being found. 

Hi Guys. in the bell notification list "Photograpers Name" added your photo to favorites. When we click on "Photographers Name" we are taken back to our own photo. I would much prefer being taken to "Photographers Name" profile not my own image.

all the best

Mal

Hi All, I personaly, would love to see a “Skip” button as it is impossible for me to judge a lot of these images. I love seeing these images, I just don’t feel qualified to judge them. I rehit curate and get another image but it is clunky and takes up time and for me the time here is limited, so it would be nice to have it smoother. Thanks, I appreciate my time here.

I agree with this...

I think it would be good if when I click on “Photographers Name” it links to the photographer's profile, and if I click on any of the other areas it goes back to my own photos.