Images appear on three pages : Fresh, Upcoming (at 70% pulse) and Popular (at 80% pulse).For instance you may need 100 votes to get from 0-95% but 1000 votes to get from 99.8 to 99.9 Each image has a pulse which goes up with each ‘like’ or ‘favourite’ but the gains are exponentially less the higher the pulse rises.This is the so called pulse ‘decay’ people speak of. Images may also be seen after this time period through your follower’s ‘flow’ page though this is often after the initial pulse decay has occurred and hence is unable to viewed on popular pages any more. The theoretical maximum pulse is 100 for the first 24 hours, 88 for the next few days, 85 after a week, 80 for the next week, 75 for a month and then eventually 60, then 50. Beyond that, it will only be seen through social media links, searches (on its very bad search engine) or if the image is listed as ‘editor’s choice’. Your images have a 24 hour lifespan in order to gain its status and garner the attention of the public. Popular and quality do not ALWAYS align but surprisingly ,quite often they do. This needs to be fully understood before one starts making accusations about it failing to live up to its supposed purpose of quality first. The site is a popularity site first and foremost.How it works: (or at least how I think it works!) In doing so, perhaps it might give some clues as to what positive aspects it can bring to your photography if choose not to let it ruin your self esteem and social etiquette in that race for #1 spot. As a long time user of 500px it has been a little sad to see this negativity being spread in such a public forum so I thought I would lay everything out in the open with regard to what I think 500px is what it all means. I think much of the angst relates to people’s want or possibly need to occupy to top echelons of the ever visible front page of popularity. I won’t go into details but I wonder why any of this needs to be happening. Lately, there has been a stream of negativity regarding the photographic site 500px.
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