Any helps or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! :)ĥ00px really stinks now- uit was ok before- although like you the whole popularity thing kinda stunk- but was tolerable- now however, with their most recent design change, they cram your photos down at the bottom of your portfolio page, cut them off, with a huge ugly wasted space at the top now- then you click on a photo and they have crammed all the info for the photo beside the photo now- it looks awful, and now they are displaying OTHER people's photos on YOUR portfolio Call me old fashioned, but I just want something that looks clean where I can display my photos and be proud of them - not because thousands of people have clicked a button, but because it just looks good. The community certainly provides a nice atmosphere, but this trend of doing whatever you can to amass likes, favourites, retweets, votes - whatever it may be - is getting way too out of hand for my liking. I guess maybe I'm looking more for strictly a portfolio/gallery service, rather than a community. But those numbers shouldn't be what's being in-your-face, it should be the photos that do that. My question is, does anyone know of any sites or services out there that offer something similar to what 500px offers (especially in terms of layout and design, particularly how clean/fluid/intuitive it is) but that doesn't have these silly popularity points? Attaching likes to a photo is one thing, and I'm not against that. Phew, sorry about that anti-500px rant, haha. That seems totally ridiculous to me, but it is what it is. From my perspective, it feels as though I am being punished because I am not willing to vote/favourite hundreds of mediocre photos in the hope that those users will return the favour. I am not a professional photographer and I certainly don't take photos that are in the 500px Prime calibre, but I have to admit that I think a lot of my photos are better than many of the photos that find their way to the top of the popular pages, simply because so many of those photos have not achieved that ranking based on anything to do with the merit or quality of the photo.simply put, 500px has turned into a giant popularity contest by the nature that you cannot disable or hide these "ratings" - I talked to one of their support representatives yesterday and asked if it was possible to somehow at least just hide the thing that gets attached to your profile that shows how many friends/likes/affection points you have.but was told that no, there is no way to hide this. In my experience, I have seen countless users who post photographs that are, in my opinion, mediocre at best - now, I realize that photographs are interpretive and subjective and that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but that being said, I think we can all agree that there are a lot of photos that are best described as being "meh" but that somehow manage to get to the top of the charts or popular pages simply because they have a lot of friends or connections on the site who will vote for anything, regardless of whether it's actually a good photo or not. But what I don't like is how those numbers, whether high or low, are essentially forced down your throat at every available opportunity. I am not saying it's a nice feature - I think that to be able to vote/favourite photos is very neat. I did have a PRO account with 500px for about a year or so, and to be honest, I really, REALLY like how clean the 500px interface is.but I just absolutely cannot stand how the 500px community has shifted from being a place that showcases truly talented photographers and spectacular photographs to place where photo quality means next to nothing and instead hinges almost entirely upon groups of friends upvoting those same groups of friends' photos. I am willing to pay an annual or subscription fee to use such a service, I do not expect good things to always be free. While I'm familiar with both, I dislike both for their own reasons (500px is far too popularity-based now, and Flickr, well.Flickr just outright sucks) and am struggling to find a comparable alternative. Hello, I am looking to get any feedback from the community regarding potential alternatives to sites like 500px and Flickr.
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