Improved communication – all about your photos!

Now you are able to directly respond to comments under your photo. This allows you to separate different discussions of a single picture.

To help you to keep the overview of all your photo discussions, we also optimized the notification display. You will receive the following notifications by “bell” and by mail:

• reply to your comment
• more answers to a current discussion
• appreciation of a comment

You can customize your email preferences to receive additional notifications.

Clicking on the notification or the link in the email will directly show you the new added comment or the answer. This eliminates the annoying search for the latest comment and you can focus on the discussion.

Appreciation of comments

From now on you also have the opportunity to appreciate individual comments or answers. In this way you can agree to a good and / or helpful comment or express gratitude. It helps you to acknowledge individual annotations without having to enter the discussion.

Along with the current optimization of fotocommunity we now present the multiple allocation of sections. With this improvement we are following the desire of many fotocommunity members to be able to assign photos more flexibly.

In the last few weeks we transferred the data of our approximately 20 million photos into a new database structure. We have adapted many lines of fotocommunity code, optimized the upload, the editing page and the fotocommunity search.

Photos are complex. They allow various interpretative approaches and corresponding thematic assignments. We hope to meet your expectations now: premium members can assign up to three sections at a time.

upload with allocation of three sections

infobox below the published photo

Your benefits:

• diverse assignment of your photos in up to 3 thematically suitable areas
• more attention for your photo

For members with a free account one section for the upload is still available.

“Popular Photos” –  the community´s flagship for presentation

Last year fotocommunity underwent some significant changes in layout and design to improve usability and better clarity. Our voting center temporarily moved a little bit into the background. However: photos voted into the “Gallery” are presented in the section “Popular photos”. They receive the highest appreciation in our community. As a premium member you are also able to propose your favorite photos for voting.

Because its important for our community we kindly ask you to look for new proposals and to cast your vote.

Here are some photos (no preference, randomly chosen) still waiting for your votes:

Photographer: Bragi Ingibergsson – go to vote

Photographer: Rainer Klassmann – go to vote

Photographer:Jim McKinniss – go to vote

Photographer: Filip Meulemeester – go to vote

Feel free to vote on any other photos! Your vote counts!

The Management