5/3/19 News & Events - Sent 5/3
5/4/19 Web & Apps - Sent 5/5
5/5/19 Drawing - Sent 5/5
5/6/19 Painting - Sent 5/6
5/7/19 Typography - Sent 5/7
5/8/19 Weekly Awards - Sent 5/8
5/9/19 Illustration - Sent 5/9
5/10/19 Novices Only - Sent 5/10
5/11/19 Wedding - Sent 5/11
5/12/19 Animals - Cats - Sent 5/12
5/13/19 Public Holidays - Sent 5/13
5/14/19 Abstract - Sent 5/14
5/15/19 Weekly Awards - Sent 5/15
5/16/19 ** Major Release **
5/17/19 Sports & Fitness - Sent 5/17
5/18/19 Digital Art - Sent 5/18
5/19/19 Food & Drink - Sent 5/19
5/20/19 ** Performance Release **
5/21/19 Animals - Dogs - Sent 5/21
5/22/19 Weekly Awards - Sent 5/22
5/23/19 April Awards - Sent 5/23
5/24/19 Babies & Children - Sent 5/24
5/25/19 Instagram & Mobile - Sent 5/25
5/26/19 Artistic Objects - Sent 5/26
5/27/19 Release
5/28/19 Black & White - Sent 5/28
5/29/19 Weekly Awards - Sent 5/29
5/30/19 Transportation - Sent 5/30
5/31/19 City, Street & Par - Sent 5/31
6/1/19 Release
6/2/19 Nature Up Close - Sent 6/2
6/3/19 Buildings & Architecture - Sent 6/4
6/5/19-6/8/19 Planned Releases
6/9/19 People - Sent 6/9
6/10/19 Landscapes - Pending - will be delayed
6/11/19 Flowers - Send 6/11
6/12/19 Weekly Awards
6/13/19 Animals
Scott Murphy, Official Rep
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I would mostly just like to see the annual awards completed for everybody and not left hanging with just these two to go.
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Above you stated :
"Hey guys, we ran into a few issues which are now fixed, but want to make sure everything is running smoothly before we send out so many email notifications. We will target next week for the new send date for 1/2 of the remaining categories. We sent out Monthly awards today."
That was 14 days ago: Did I miss an update?
Thx
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The original ‘tentative’ for Animals was 6/13/19. Minor delays were then stated, and the last notice I can find is;
“Scott Murphy (Official Rep) 1 month ago
Hi Jennifer, we had to get the contest changes out. I will commit to doing one this week and the last one the following week.”
May your loyal members have a firm date commitment?
What makes Pixoto a prime choice out of the myriad of other photo sites is the major awards for head to head competition. This is the point of continued enthusiasm; the reason we duel and continue paying for Pro.
Could we know if automation for the yearlies is a part of all the many site updates?
Could you assign a person this week to focus on manually calculating these all important yearly awards?
We would all be grateful and satisfied!
Thank you
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Can you give us the date that the 2018 Annual awards will be sent out for LANDSCAPES & ANIMALS, please?
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May We Ask When Will the 2018
Animals and Photogs of the Year Be Awarded, Please?
Many are becoming
disheartened by the long waits for the yearlies; tending to participate less. The
primary reason to participate is the awards, and for your loyal members, the
yearly and banner awards are the primary incentive to submit frequently as well
as promote the website by encouraging others to join and increase membership.
Everyone Loves Awards!
Knowing when awards will be given and then receiving them on time is very
satisfying. In discussions with other members, we would greatly appreciate
having the yearly awards scheduled on a regular published calendar, like the
daily and weekly awards are. This seems to be a modest expectation, especially
for paid members, to have the awards manually calculated on a regular schedule
until automation is achieved.
Thank you, and have a
great day!
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@Jasenka, I know Scott isn't that active in the community, but I know you can reach him. So please, at least one of you can follow this one up properly I assume?
20 days ago I asked Scot about a promise he made even 14 days before.
"Hey guys, we ran into a few issues which are now fixed, but want to make sure everything is running smoothly before we send out so many email notifications. We will target next week for the new send date for 1/2 of the remaining categories. We sent out Monthly awards today."
So by today we're 34 days ahead and still no response, or did I miss something?
Thanks
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Thank you for your patience.
We are focusing on migrating the duel system prior to running the remaining annual awards to prevent any major hiccups. The work is done, we are just making sure that everything performs correctly prior to transferring over. Best case scenario this is completed in a week. Worst case is a month.
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Lesson for the future:
Whenever you keep a shop open when doing a renovation, this means that it should be "business as usual" and you need to continue to serve your customers.
Looking at situation at the situation at Pixoto for the last 6-8 months, keeping the shop open failed. Promises were made and solutions were postponed to often with the argument of being busy with the overhaul of (parts of Pixoto).
The awards are best example. The awards and badges are the shop-windows and billboards of the Pixoto shop and obviously very important to stop losing customers.
Renovation is not a valid argument to forget the loyal members. But you did it...
Next time do the renovation without promising service to customers.
Or (much) Better: improve the balance of renovation vs customer service a lot!
I can assure you that if your solution was a business critical solution, your shop got broke and was closed for long already....
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It may be helpful to know more details of the improvements being made to “dramatically change” the dueling process than shown on the see changes link.
Are the upload criteria changing?
Is the scoring algorithm changing in some way that we will notice?
Will automation of the monthly and yearly awards be included?
Thank you
Raphael
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Are we ever going to see badges awarded for 2018 Best Photographers of the Year? Once again things are way behind. Hopefully by 2020 we will see the 2018 awards...???
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"Thank you for your patience.
We are focusing on migrating the duel system prior to running the remaining annual awards to prevent any major hiccups. The work is done, we are just making sure that everything performs correctly prior to transferring over. Best case scenario this is completed in a week. Worst case is a month. "
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It is only September, nothing is lost!!!
Seriously Scott, do you think this is a normal situation?
I think we’re being laughed at.
I don’t understand (and I’m not the only one) why the system is able to publish daily and weekly awards on a regular basis, and why it can’t publish monthly and yearly awards on the same regular basis.
Yet it is the same principle and the same algorithms.
So I agree with Raphael, in his last post, it's becoming necessary for you to provide us some explanations regarding the reasons of this situation.
Thank you.
Gérard
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We will look to automating it after we get the final 2 categories sent out.
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That's a good news....
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Here is an update. We finished getting the Voting system release. We will monitor it for a week and if there are no issues, we will proceed with the final 2 awards categories.
Best,
Scott
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Great business attitude.
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We will wrap this up as follows:
Thursday, 9/19/19 - August Monthly Awards
Thursday, 9/26/19 - Landscapes
Thursday 10/3/19 - Animals
Thursday 10/10/19 - Badge Assignment
Starting in October, monthly awards assignment will be automatic going forward.
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J-Lo
There are 158 in Drawing.
There are 235 in Painting.
There are 415 in Typography.
There are 788 in Illustration.
There are 155 in Novices Only.
There are 442 in Weddings.
There are 551 in Animals - Cats.
There are 2,104 total in Public Holidays.
There are 2,444 total in Abstract.
There are 2,847 Sports and Fitness.
There are 3,216 Digital Art.
There are 3,337 in Food and Drink.
There are 3,351 in Animals - Dogs.
There are 4,887 in Babies & Children.
There are 5,155 in Instagram & Mobile.
There are 8,164 in Artistic Objects.
There are 10,132 in Black & White.
There are 13,121 in Nature Up-Close.
There are 16,543 in Buildings & Architecture.
J-Lo
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I hope this helps.
J-Lo
J-Lo
There are 158 in Drawing.
There are 235 in Painting.
There are 415 in Typography.
There are 788 in Illustration.
There are 155 in Novices Only.
There are 442 in Weddings.
There are 551 in Animals - Cats.
There are 2,104 total in Public Holidays.
There are 2,444 total in Abstract.
There are 2,847 Sports and Fitness.
There are 3,216 Digital Art.
There are 3,337 in Food and Drink.
There are 3,351 in Animals - Dogs.
There are 4,887 in Babies & Children.
There are 5,155 in Instagram & Mobile.
There are 8,164 in Artistic Objects.
There are 10,132 in Black & White.
There are 10,409 in Transportation.
There are 10,856 in City, Street and Park.
There are 13,121 in Nature Up-Close.
There are 16,543 in Buildings & Architecture.
There are 17,213 in People.
There are at least 29,712 in Landscapes. Computer locked up. HA!
Okay. I made it through to the end. Landscapes has 33,083.
Ad Spruijt
Flowers: 35,211
Thanks for your efforts
@Scott: showing number of pictures in a category for the day/week/month/year would be a nice additional feature indeed
J-Lo