retrofocus Offline Upload & Sell: Off
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Bearmann wrote:
When I joined Zenfolio several years ago, they were just starting out. At the time, their promotion was that if you joined before the end of the year, your yearly fee would be locked in for life, i.e. no further price increases. Since that time, Zenfolio has been purchased by new owners. The new owners have chosen to break the promise of the original owners and increase the yearly fee. I know that when public companies buy another company, they are legally obligated to assume the current liabilities as well as the assets. Of course, morally, you would expect this also. The price difference is not significant. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth....Show more →
I still have to find a decent commercial photo portfolio website which does not annoy me. I am also with Zenfolio, and I am using it now since more than 8 years. I first went with the full version allowing watermarking and direct sales from my site but later decided that it was not worth the money spent on an annual basis and went back to the standard/cheapest option with more limited space. Until a year ago or so, the standard version offered too low amount of storage space for photos IMO - I was able to cope with it because I was vested there for years, so every year I received a tiny storage space upgrade which brought me to a moderately decent level. Zenfolio still sucks sometimes when uploading compressed photos in JPG at certain times - it takes too long IMO to upload a batch of 12 to 20 JPG files with 5 MB each. Zenfolio improved a bit here compared to years ago where it was really bad, but it still is by far not ideal.
The site still has the same bug when replacing a photo in an existing photo gallery - after uploading the replacement file, the icon of the new photo is still the old one, but shows the correct new one when clicking on the full view of the image. After the gallery site is manually reloaded, the correct new icon of the photo is displayed within the gallery view. If you are not aware of this, you might think that the replacement upload didn't work since the icon didn't change - very irritating! It's the same bug since many years, Zenfolio never corrected it.
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