wiskerke Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 18 minutes ago, Ognyan Yosifov said: C'mon, guys - it's the new norm, no matter if you like it or not..... Give it 72 hours (if you're lucky) - just in case. And THEN start moaning... Could be, but even then it's useful for everybody to know it. Until it's confirmed it is the new normal I would rather think/hope it's a temporary glitch. Besides what would be the new normal? Is that a database that's only been refreshed every 72 hours? That would be totally unworkable. So it has to be a process in between the keywording and the database refresh. I'm guessing the Ministry of Truth. wim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ognyan Yosifov Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 3 minutes ago, wiskerke said: Could be, but even then it's useful for everybody to know it. Until it's confirmed it is the new normal I would rather think/hope it's a temporary glitch. Besides what would be the new normal? Is that a database that's only been refreshed every 72 hours? That would be totally unworkable. So it has to be a process in between the keywording and the database refresh. I'm guessing the Ministry of Truth. wim I'm a simple man, Wim ...🙃 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanderingemu Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 5 hours ago, wiskerke said: Image uploaded with keywords not showing either. Uploaded 17th according to AIM. Accepted and on sale more or less right away but not showing. I think I uploaded it on the 16th, but it may be right and it was 10 minutes past midnight after all. Still way before the usual refresh time. So indeed we're 2 or 3 refreshes behind. Having no Live News access anymore doesn't help. Mine was just a building: no hard news. Just an organization in the news with very few images on Alamy. wim 10 minutes past midnight your time should have been plenty. When system working, cut off was 1am GMT (20:00 for me) having Live News access doesn't help much either, since we hit the same queue for transfer to Stock, so we have regularly seen 48-72 hours where the images are nowhere to be found. Worse this week, as they only made the News feed for half a day, on the last page.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanderingemu Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 On 17/12/2020 at 09:12, Cal said: It's actually worse than I thought. Images becoming visible around 2 days after going "on sale" in AIM is still the case. But I've got a few images where I changed the keywords or rephrased some of the text, one dating back to last week, where the changes don't show up on the image page itself nor are the changes searchable. I thought I was losing the plot so I checked in AIM and the changes are definitely there. Day 3 of test. The added KW on Thursday as now finally been indexed and appears in searches after 3 days. The corrected Caption on Thursday also now finally appears on Search after 3 days Live News images from Thursday, or not available in searches on stock side, though they expired prior to to old cut off time yesterday, so in limbo, though they are accounted for in my Forum "Blue number" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avpics Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 19 minutes ago, meanderingemu said: .....indexed and appears in searches after 3 days. My stock images themed towards going into Tier 3 are now available, on the day that we've gone into Tier 4. Whoopydo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb photos Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 19 hours ago, wiskerke said: Could be, but even then it's useful for everybody to know it. Until it's confirmed it is the new normal I would rather think/hope it's a temporary glitch. Besides what would be the new normal? Is that a database that's only been refreshed every 72 hours? That would be totally unworkable. So it has to be a process in between the keywording and the database refresh. I'm guessing the Ministry of Truth. wim I suspect the delay in going on sale isn't due to a process in-between keyboarding and database refresh, as my reportage images are uploaded with captions and keywords and take days before going on sale. Someone tell me if I'm wrong. Only Alamy know what's really going on, but obviously are not telling us. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanderingemu Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 9 minutes ago, sb photos said: I suspect the delay in going on sale isn't due to a process in-between keyboarding and database refresh, as my reportage images are uploaded with captions and keywords and take days before going on sale. Someone tell me if I'm wrong. Only Alamy know what's really going on, but obviously are not telling us. i will add the disconnect between the Forum "blue number" and image for sales as evidence that something is not as planned. I didn't upload stock after wednesday, to wait for database to settle in. So my only submission is 5 images through Live News on Thursday, historically these images don't get counted in Number of images until they make it to Stock through server update. This morning in line with expectations my " Forum Blue Number" is up 5, but these images are not available anywhere for sale and portfolio number is unchanged. So some part of the database recognises the images, sadly not the one that creates sales. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, sb photos said: I suspect the delay in going on sale isn't due to a process in-between keyboarding and database refresh, as my reportage images are uploaded with captions and keywords and take days before going on sale. Someone tell me if I'm wrong. Only Alamy know what's really going on, but obviously are not telling us. I don't really think there is a Ministry of Truth either. It's just a normal office of course. 😁 wim edit: my image of the 16th came online today (Dec 20). Edited December 20, 2020 by wiskerke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb photos Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, wiskerke said: edit: my image of the 16th came online today (Dec 20). Hopefully mine from the 15th will soon. Edit: Hooray, mine has appeared and is visible in my portfolio. Edited December 20, 2020 by sb photos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 9 hours ago, Avpics said: My stock images themed towards going into Tier 3 are now available, on the day that we've gone into Tier 4. Whoopydo! I did my final editorial set of the year this weekend (I've decided to give myself the rest of the year off, save perhaps for any news I come across) and as they've been submitted as stock I expect those images to be under "lockdown" until around Christmas day due to how slow the search engine is now. Shame as they were Christmas shopper themed, but I guess in a few years when people are recalling this event they will have archive value. I guess down in your neck of the woods you've been able to cover the Tier 4 protests, or the mass exodus of people from London?! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 8 hours ago, sb photos said: but obviously are not telling us. That's the most vexing part. I've asked them twice in this thread now, and once or twice across others. The issue just gets totally ignored, or written off as temporary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avpics Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 21 minutes ago, Cal said: I guess down in your neck of the woods you've been able to cover the Tier 4 protests, or the mass exodus of people from London?! I'm a fair way outside London. I've covered one protest recently but it's not cost effective to go in too often. I've focused on first/last day of Tier 3/4 in my home town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAROL SAUNDERS Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 5 hours ago, sb photos said: Hopefully mine from the 15th will soon. Edit: Hooray, mine has appeared and is visible in my portfolio. Think a few of mine have appeared also, onwards and upwards...... Carol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 13 minutes ago, Avpics said: I'm a fair way outside London. I've covered one protest recently but it's not cost effective to go in too often. I've focused on first/last day of Tier 3/4 in my home town. Cost effective. What's that?! Beautiful sunrise photos on your recent by the way. You're lucky you can get to somewhere you can see such a bare flat horizon like that. I have to travel miles for a scene like that as it's quite hilly round here or obscured by man made things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanderingemu Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 4 hours ago, Cal said: I did my final editorial set of the year this weekend (I've decided to give myself the rest of the year off, save perhaps for any news I come across) and as they've been submitted as stock I expect those images to be under "lockdown" until around Christmas day due to how slow the search engine is now. Shame as they were Christmas shopper themed, but I guess in a few years when people are recalling this event they will have archive value. I guess down in your neck of the woods you've been able to cover the Tier 4 protests, or the mass exodus of people from London?! enjoy the break. i've been more or less off for a few weeks now, as I had an anxiety attack at last protest, so thought better take a break. Uploaded a few themed owl sets this week. Was hoping that i might get some stereotypical Ottawa winter shot, eg. skating on Rideau Canal, but it looks like this will be banned under our new province wide lock-down to start on the 24th... so except if anything major happens weather wise, i am also likely off until new year,,, might actually work on my application to get access to reportage and archive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avpics Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 5 hours ago, Cal said: Beautiful sunrise photos on your recent by the way. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony ALS Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 All appears to be up to date including images keyworded yesterday. Alamy appear to have resolved whatever the problem was. Thank you Alamy and best wishes to all for the festive season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Crean Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 5 minutes ago, Tony ALS said: All appears to be up to date including images keyworded yesterday. Alamy appear to have resolved whatever the problem was. Thank you Alamy and best wishes to all for the festive season. Not quite there yet!!!! Uploaded 36 images yesterday, all KW, captioned etc... Only 18 appear on the main search today....Hopefully the other 18 will arrive in the next update. Phil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony ALS Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 4 hours ago, Phil Crean said: Not quite there yet!!!! Uploaded 36 images yesterday, all KW, captioned etc... Only 18 appear on the main search today....Hopefully the other 18 will arrive in the next update. Phil Sorry if I was premature Phil! Hope everyone is up to date soon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Still a delay compared to usual. My QC pass 18 hours ago is not on sale so I’m guessing going by previous patterns it will be sometime tomorrow or the 24th they go on sale. I've also noticed when saving changes in AIM it tells you to wait up to 48 hours. Don’t know if it’s always said that but I could have sworn it said 24 previously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 I've had no overnight update on the Alamy site. You? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ashmore Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 40 minutes ago, Ed Rooney said: I've had no overnight update on the Alamy site. You? My last two updates have both taken 48 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAROL SAUNDERS Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Images keyworded last night not showing up as yet, maybe they will later today...... Carol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 1 hour ago, PAL Media said: Live news images that should go straight into stock disappear completely, can anyone see 2DP67P8 Nope, not yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Interestingly enough they've just made a Twitter post about this saying not to worry if your changes aren't visible as the search engine refreshes approximately every 24 hours. I'm not a gambling man but I'd put money on it not refreshing approximately every 24 hours for quite a few of us here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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