Q: I use Pxabay, Pexels and Unsplash daily for my business.
I can clearly see that you have sources your images, vectors, illustrations and videos from these free sites.
I can literally regonize half of the results.
Are you planning to add a filtering option to filter out your premium photos shot by your photographers?
At the moment there is no way to sort by premium photos or to see how many premium photos you have in the library, all you would require to do is to tag each premium photo with a tag such as "premium" so we can find them. Sure, you can say you are adding x amount of premium photos a day, but that is useless if we can't find them.
Pxabay and Unsplash I believe we're recently acquired by Canva. They have added the ability to edit photos and videos from these sites directly with Canva. This makes your image editing tools useless. There are already dozens of other free online photo croppers and editors also.
The transparent cut out image maker could be useful, however there is already free online programs that do the same thing.
Your loading times are absolutely absurd, the vectors page literally takes one to five seconds per indivual vector image to load. There are probably fifty on a page.
This platform seems to just combine and curates all resources from free sites into one site, however with less search filters and lower loading times.
What exactly are the advantages of this, compared to using free graphic sites? I have only found graphics from these free sites and awful sites like Flickr.
Could you also please showcase some of the 50,000 images you added today which we are unable to filter and find.
Jonathan_JumpStory
May 15, 2024A: Dear Sumo-ling.
Thank you very much for your long comments, feedback and ideas.
As regards the "free" websites that you mention: We don't have any of "their photos". What they have done is change the license from Creative Commons to their own private license, and in this connection they have decided to keep some of the old CC0 photos. However, this still gives you as a user quite a lot of potential problems. We've written about it here: https://jumpstory.com/blog/why-we-created-jumpstory/
Perhaps also check out this link: https://www.diyphotography.net/photographer-faces-legal-action-after-using-a-photo-he-downloaded-from-unsplash/
So no - we don't source any images from their websites! But we might have some similar images, because we put all of our own photos up as CC0 and also include a lot of CC0 visuals - however, we never source from these sites, but that doesn't mean that we can't have a lot of the same CC0 images, since they seem to have kept some of them, from when they were promoted as the "idealists of the industry" :-)
As regards our other photos we have +15 million, where the websites that you mention all have around 1 million. It's a big difference. However, your idea of making it possible to sort through our new photos is great. We will develop that in Q1 2020 for sure. Thank a lot!
As regards our loading times can I ask, where you are based in the world? Currently our loadtime in the US should be around 2-3 seconds - depending on your internet connection. Could I ask you to write it in here or in an e-mail to jl@jumpstory.com ? I would appreciate this a lot.
You mention that it takes 5 seconds per vector. That sounds very strange. I just did a test, where it takes 2 seconds to load the first 50 vectors. When did you try this out?
Kind regards,
Jonathan
Co-founder of JumpStory.