Author Topic: Lookstat Giving it a try (Read 49400 times)

lurkertwo · « **Reply #100 on:** July 17, 2009, 04:02 »

Without ShutterStock it's pointless. All we got by it was that stupid captcha when logging in at ShutterStock. I personally don't care for Fotolia since for some reason my port doesn't fly there, and I stopped uploading long ago. That leaves iStock and Dreamstime. But both offer a good statistics tool to check on the site itself.

Considering there was no news at all from Lookstat in a long time, I got worried and changed my passwords on the 3 microstocks supported, and I also changed my email to nonsense on Lookstat.

It was a great idea but I guess the microstocks don't like to spare resources on being compared to each other. But it's our stats and it's none of their business if someone comes up with a desktop application that logs in to the microstocks from our own PC and harvests the stats.

Rahul Pathak · « **Reply #101 on:** July 17, 2009, 04:12 »

Hi Everyone,

First, I owe you all an apology. SS's decision to ban third party apps made us reassess our situation and I made the decision to wait until we had more clarity before communicating. Clearly, this was a mistake and I own it. We as an organization, and me as an individual, have learned from this and I think you'll see more transparency from us from here out.

We are alive and well and committing to helping contributors. There have been some issues with our stats offering beyond Shutterstock and we are investing to resolve them. It will likely be early fall before you see progress from us on that front.

I realize this is a long time and that we will lose some of the people that were rooting for us as a result. I completely understand and respect that decision. My hope is that you'll be open to hearing from us again in the not-too-distant future.

Thank you again for your support and I hope you'll accept my apology for my misstep re: communication. I'll be posting some more in the next couple of weeks about what we're up to and our path forward.

Sincerely,

Rahul