500px is a decent place to share photos and see other people's photos, but it is plagued by a total absence of non-photographer audience.
It's photogs looking at other photogs' work, vs. Facebook / Instagram that actually have an audience outside of the creators themselves. Let's say you shoot fashion. On Instagram you have models, MUAs, stylists, studios, agencies, brands and all of their non-creatives friends. On 500px, nothing, just photographers. It's somewhat akin to writing music that only other musicians will hear.
Oh and lots and lots of bots saying the same comment on every post.
Not really surprised they've been slowly slipping out of relevance. There's no particularly great reason to be on that specific platform.
>500px is a decent place to share photos and see other people's photos, but it is plagued by a total absence of non-photographer audience.
Isn't that the whole reason for them to exist in the first place? I think the problem here is the expectation (maybe internally at 500px as well) that every site has to hockey-stick its way to enormous success. A social-enabled portfolio site for photographers sounds like a very sensible idea to me.
Sure, but then you're just another one of those sites, and there are plenty of them already. Not clear how 500x stands out compared to the rest of them.
It's photogs looking at other photogs' work, vs. Facebook / Instagram that actually have an audience outside of the creators themselves. Let's say you shoot fashion. On Instagram you have models, MUAs, stylists, studios, agencies, brands and all of their non-creatives friends. On 500px, nothing, just photographers. It's somewhat akin to writing music that only other musicians will hear.
Oh and lots and lots of bots saying the same comment on every post.
Not really surprised they've been slowly slipping out of relevance. There's no particularly great reason to be on that specific platform.