Not Here

Gordon: Extremely well said, it reflects my experience and decision to leave. Since leaving I’ve been checking in every week or so, can’t imagine why, perhaps hoping for the miracle that is obviously not going to happen. It’s recently dawned on me that just coming by as a guest and “clicking” on a few photos may be perpetuating and benefiting the hapless owners of the site. I have vowed to discontinue these visits. A sad decision, I truly miss all my old, missing, friends here. Mike

Who bailed? Surely you jest with a that short memory. I do believe it was Photo.net that dropped an untested site on us without discussion or warning. With the majority of the membership bailed, I guess the < 50 posting photographers will have to share the consumer costs. How’s that “working to try to help” thingy working out for you? Has management all of a sudden gotten chatty about their plans? Yeah, I didn’t think so. Look, my argument isn’t with you and I apologize for my sharp tone. But even you have to be tired of the way this site has been run into the ground. I stopped counting at well over 100 of your newest uploads and in those you have 1 comment. That’s not what a photography site should be about. Have a good weekend, I’m running away from home again, this is a self defeating forum.;) Mike

I really do feel like I’m talking to jell-o at echo canyon. There will never be meaningful, helpful dialogue until the defensive, guilty attitude about V1 is retired. Nothing most of us have said has anything to do with keeping V1; it’s been about the loss of functionality in V2. As for posting... why? Photo.net is a supplier asking for my consumer dollar and I’m being very honest in telling you that for over 10 years I was a happy client and you blew it and alienated me and a whole lot of other clients. It’s your job to make us want to come back. Non-sensical, random responses stretched over 2 years isn’t going to make that happen. Mike

That is not what I said, if you’ll just read what I did say. But if you want to pursue that frivolous line of thought; I’ll offer that I can and have “run away from home”, along with about 98% of the photographer’s on this site. And that’s a real shame. Mike

Glenn: I’m not a subscriber anymore and just stop by every so often to see if any of my favorite photographers have reappeared; they haven’t, and that’s material to my comment. Your complete response above, the only one that you’ve parroted literally for years now, was not completely factual at the release of V2 and it still isn’t. As I’ve stated on several other occasions, we don’t care what computer language you speak and we understand the need to stay current. What we don’t understand and what I’ve never heard you address properly is why you took a fully functioning site, gave it to programmers that obviously had never picked up a camera and let them turn it into a shell of what it was before. That is diametrically opposed to any other site or software offering on the market. If you really want to try and salvage a site that photographers (not FaceBook clickers) will use, then give V1 to some knowledgeable programmers and let them modernize it to whatever programming language you want, but retain it’s functionality! Then release it on a new site. I hate to say it but your brand name is toast here on Photo.net, the site is flawed beyond repair (especially with the current programmers) because you lost functionality. Give me a modernized V1, with its full functionality, and I’ll be your first subscriber. Mike

"There are some people who see a great deal and some who see very little in the same things." - Thomas Huxley "Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you." - Joel Osteen Or if rational thought doesn't do it for you, just listen to the lyrics from redneck Toby Keith's song "All About Me". And why is this tripe on "Photo.Net Site Help"? The site structure needs help and discussion, not the images.

You don't mention your computer platform but I use Win10 and Edge as a browser and was able to delete my entire portfolio with the exception of two images that had won POW. I assume they reside in a data base on the server and continuallly come back when deleted. Anyway, try deleting the selected images from any gallery first and then from photos. That’s what worked for me.

John: I would agree to a point, but, as you noted, this is a business where we are the paying consumer. I don’t think it’s an unfair analogy to buying a car and then having it recalled and replaced with an inferior model. In business it is incumbent upon the supplier to appeal to their customer base or lose those customers. Alas, PNet is setting a classroom example. In short, the blasted software should’ve been vetted and working properly, with all the functions of the previous versions, before release. Although I let my subscription lapse I still monitor the site in hopes that enough improvements are implemented to make this version palatable. So far the discussion forums seem to be ok with the exception of spam, but the photo side of the site remains abysmal with only fluff changes of no consequence. As for empathy and patience, I have slim to none for a business who would pull such a hair brained stunt and then expect customers to just rave about what’s been served. This Emporer remains naked as a jay bird! PNet, we’re still waiting but not without a hint of hope... Mike

Fred: Is the view above portrait or landscape? On my iPad I have to view in landscape in order to see all the boxes... Mike