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semmickphoto · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:08 pm

I think the popular selection is now a algorithm of what sold last and what sold most. Therefore there is a new mix in your port. But I am just guessing. My port just kind of looks like that when I sort on popular.

annavee · Joined: 13 Oct 2009 Posts: 112

rixie · Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 3435 Location: Hampshire, UK

nobeastsofierce · Joined: 07 Apr 2010 Posts: 36

After the change all my good sellers climbed in the popular search only to see my sales go down significantly - my daily downloads average this month so far is worse even than January's and February's ones. Better positioning - worse sales, there's definately something that doesn't add up

aspenphoto · Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 155 Location: PA, USA

Same here - page one seems to be ok - but after that it looks to be grouped by shoot date not "popular" - but even the dates do not follow a logical order - just grouped together in some bizarre manner.

riffmax · Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 3102 Location: Florida, USA

Mine begins to fall apart even on page one - by the time scroll down to the last row or two, it's grouped together by shoot date.

thp · Joined: 14 Apr 2010 Posts: 46 Location: Australia

Popular sort seems to change each time I look at my portfolio, even just 30 minutes apart.

Plus, images that only got accepted today just showed up on my second last page (out of 11) as least popular. Surely an image with only 1 hour online can't be us 'unpopular' as an image with a year online and no sales!?

SS forum Guru, please explain why this is changing so much lately?

thank you

gertan · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:35 am

Same here.
In my case the mess starts on page 2 of my gallery: non-sellers take the place of good sellers.
My earnings took a nose dive this month.

cpaulfell · Joined: 07 Dec 2011 Posts: 2435

I am currently unable to do any kind of sort. Appears the options have all been disabled.

cpaulfell · Joined: 07 Dec 2011 Posts: 2435

And now its back :)

annavee · Joined: 13 Oct 2009 Posts: 112

It's a mess. Old images that never sold shouldn't be on page one.

panicattack · Joined: 15 May 2011 Posts: 133

It's still a mess.

first few rows of images are fine, but after that completely messed, and it's has been like that for 4 weeks now.

panicattack · Joined: 15 May 2011 Posts: 133

where are moderators or anyone from Shutter?

all those bugs and no one says anything... weird and frustrating.

gertan · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 4:53 pm

I still have images with just a few and even 1 or 2 with 0 sales on page 2 of my port.
They are different from those I described above.

ruxpriencdiam · Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 12:18 am

The current Popular search is completely BS and wrong as of sometime yesterday if not before!

I now have images that have never sold that are now the most "Popular" and they are three years old and were some of the ones i used to get approved.

For instance number 22 of my most popular has never sold and is three years old so how can that be "Popular"?

And a bunch of my what used to be most "Popular" are now more then 5 pages into my port?

Sales have dropped while this has happened and yet before this everything was fine!

My first page of most popular has more than 75% of the images from my last page of images from three years ago that were the first ones i submitted!

So why is this happening?

My what used to be my most popular top three are now #3 / #4 and #11???

What was my #1 most popular has dropped to #4 and my #2 is now #3 in front of my what used to be #1 and my #3 is now #11?Huh

Searching the site by keyword for one of my most popular that has always maintained number four status it is now number 61 so why the sudden drop?

It is all EFFED up!