"Imagepro" is gone

i for one certainly appreciate your input and knowledge Mark, I'll be looking into the things you've outlined

<p>Too bad for people who were using it, but it was a really half-baked concept from day one. There are a lot of other options out there for free that are much better. <br>

Photo.net still has the same mid-90s feel it had when I signed up so long ago. I would avoid it for anything where you want to highlight your work. Even Flickr is 10X better.</p>

<p>Just did a Google search entering my name and found the Google cache removal worked. My old ImagePro site no longer shows up. Thought it was going to take a couple of days. That sure was quick.</p>

<p>At least my YouTube channel makes it to the top of the page with my Photo.net gallery sixth on the list. I still exist. YIPPEE!</p>

<p>Ian, any suggestions for the options you mentioned specifically with regards to ease of use, online security, good reputation and where you don't have to give up all personal info to trackers and marketers? Or am I asking too much? I'm not a fan of Go-Daddy.</p>

<p>I have a Flickr account but I've rarely used or maintained it over the years due to its now confusing updated interface of nested options and cluttered gallery view. But even the name "Flickr" seems outdated.</p>

<p>Where's the hip and modern looking free gallery site whose interface and maintenance options gets out of the way of the user and let's the user show their work without a lot of clutter?</p>

<p>Forgot about the business cards. Yes, I added the imagepro address to my cards and gave out many. PN needs to do a mea culpa here and make things right. I suggest a one year membership extension to help cover the cost having new cards printed.</p>

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<p><em>"PN needs to do a mea culpa here and make things right."</em></p>

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<p>Sanford, I think Glenn already went much further with a public apology, explanation, and a refund offer. <br>

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Maybe a private message to Glenn will better solve specific concerns than to publicly state ones displeasure that will only make a difficult situation more so. </p>

<p><em>"Ian, any suggestions for the options..."</em><br>

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A lot of photographers seem to use 500px.</p>

<p>Michael, a refund does me no good as I may wish to take advantages other membership features. And, please, don't tell me what I can and can't say here. </p>

<p>I thank this thread for reminding how much I hate Facebook for the same issues I lined out to Ian. BTW, Thanks, Ian, for the 500px suggestion.</p>

<p>I just got an email notification of someone "Liking" my photo that I'ld forgotten I'ld given to an old local furniture restoration business that had closed their doors several years ago but still had a web presents as they were now showing their wares on the road going from town to town.</p>

<p>I was taken to the photo and couldn't figure out what person liked it because I couldn't find the person's name in FB's Timeline interface and had to conclude it was the actual business name that must've liked it.</p>

<p>That reminded me I needed to edit my FB profile and remove the ImagePro URL I had placed in my FB Contact section that never hyperlinked. The viewer had to copy the URL and enter it into their browser. I'm so glad I don't hang out at Facebook. </p>

<p>Well, I'll miss imagepro, I put a ton of work into it. The only thing I lost was all my links on my links page. I rewrote a new page that I just finished using Jalbum that just so happened to work out for the best. I actually like the Jablum website I just finished up. I placed a photo.net in the Navbar so people could see my work from here along with a whole new setup for everything else from this year. It took me a total of 4 hours to write a new site and put it on my URL. No bubble no trouble I say. I definitely won't waste anytime using photo.net (if they replace imagepro with something else) Forget it, what I got now is working way better. Thanks for the use of imagepro when it was around! Check it out! www.zensphotography.com</p>

<p>Congratulations to everyone that is above the tinker toy Image Pro site. I was a user of the site and it was effective, and I have a forward domain to it that I am paying for (I know some of you may have opinions on that, I don't care). Photo.net communication is not very good, and I considered that feature part of what I was paying for with my photo.net subscription. I'm sure this photo.net will follow Image Pro..and this page will also open to a large error message. Thanks!!!</p>

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<p>...and I have a forward domain to it that I am paying for...</p>

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<p>Dave, your PN bio Personal Home Page URL doesn't come up with anything. Was that your ImagePro link or the forward domain you're paying for?</p>

<p>Creative Director for Walt Disney Imagineering?! That's GOT to be a good gig! Kudos for getting it, Dave.</p>

The url is my own forward domain that now takes you nowhere. I noticed a personal link there also that just takes you to

my photo.net gallery. I have been working for Imagineering for 25 years so had the gig for a while..thanks! I guess if this

was my day job I probably would have my own site outside of Image Pro, but I have been doing art shows and people

have that domain to nowhere on my business cards, as well as many art sites, linked in, etc. thanks photo.net!!

<p>I too was a user of the website and had many links to it. Threw my re-print of my business cards in the bin yesterday.<br>

Very disappointing and I appreciate Glenn's offer of a fee reduction but that is not the real issue. I'll miss the site and will now have to find a new one, and start again. Bummer.<br>

Regards</p>

<p>Dave, <br>

It is not difficult to re-direct your domain to another site/service, even if all you have for a short period of time is a placeholder and a contact link. </p>

I actually have a book, cards, many sites for applying to art shows, galleries, art sites, etc etc, it's work and i happened to

like the web site. I know I can start over, that's what ill have to do. I sound like a whiner, but I got more value out of that

than anything else on photo.net, and now I'll probably be signing off here.

<p>I'm still getting over what Apple did to us by discontinuing MobileMe, the main reason I bought the Mac.</p>

Dave Hoffman, you're not a whiner, we were all told what we were buying when they took our money, and one

of the things we were sold as a "major benefit", was an Imagepro website. I'm like you and many others, I

invested a ton of hours into initially working out a layout and process for working my images into a suitable format

for upload to my site, and countless hours maintaining it in the years i had it. I also, like you and the others, advertised that site, spent money on business cards, etc. What they've done makes their current advertising to people they are now asking to join as to "the benefits of giving them your money" totally meaningless, because they have now established the precedent that they are fully willing to go back on that at any time after you pay them. This is real simple, there is a lot of talk on a number of forums here about "what it takes to be a professional photographer", and one of the major things it takes, is to ensure your clients are delivered what you say you will deliver to them. Photo net has not done so. That appears to be, as defined by those comments in the forums, very un -professional. You're not a whiner, you're someone who was sold something,and therefore expected to receive it.

Amen! Couldn't have said it better myself Robert!

<p>I had a note on my desktop for over a year: "Fix Imagepro". All the photos loaded on to to one page and it took too long. I was going to separate them into galleries by subject. Never got around to it, sometimes procrastination pays.</p>

Interesting.... I've just received the annual email from Glenn about subscriptions, going forward. This time around there is

no mention of a website. I'm sure I read somewhere that a website was "under construction"?

 

My partner and I have discussed the renewal of our subscriptions and the fact that we feel that the "life, commeraderie,

and general member interaction" has gone from PN over the past 2years or so.

 

2015/6 would have been our 7th year with PN but have hardly signed in during 2014/5 because the stalwarts who used to

give good comments no longer do, and those whom we critiqued no longer acknowledge..... With no website, what are we

really getting for our subs? We will not be renewing for another year as we no longer get the enjoyment we once did.

 

So, to those who may read this and know Louise and I (through PN), take care and keep in touch.

 

Best regards