I really like this app and the photographic community that supports it. Compared to some other similar apps (e.g., Flickr), it is much easier to build connections to interesting photographers and receive feedback quickly. Also unlike Flickr, nobody on 500px seems to use their ‘board’ as a dump for long series of repetitive unedited smartphone pictures. The actual upload process for pictures could be a little easier, especially for keywords - although the app suggests keywords, most are either repeated variations or just irrelevant, while it does not seem to recall your past often-used keywords from your galleries. Still, overall this is a great app and an enthusiastic, welcoming and discerning photographic community!

I am a 10 year+ user of 500px app and website. I liked it as a site for serious photographers, an alternative to places to view teenyboppers’ latest selfies and pictures of cats. Recently it updated its app and its website service. Both “improvements” were disastrous. First the app. Previously the app was simple, clean, and displayed one’s work in an attractive and intuitive manner. Now the app displays ones work in a wide, heavily cropped, landscape format, destroying the frame and composition of the original work. One has to question the sanity and competence of the individuals responsible for this change, as if photographers don’t care about framing and composition. Moreover, it has added new ‘functionality’ which pushes crap into your feed you have never liked and will never like, as well as work you have already liked. Duh. The new search function uses “AI” which in this case stands for ‘artificial insipidity’, delivering results that are downright bizarre, even if you name the photographer or subject matter precisely. Most of this applies to the web version too, though so far the severe cropping has not been implemented. Users should just skip this app and go straight to the web until 500px regains their sanity.

1. SAME suggestions after years! Not much improvement. Weak support/communication. 2. FRUSTRATING NAVIGATION: i. unintuitive, uneasy ii. x to rid photos is too small you have to hit x several times for it to respond. iii. clicking outside should close photos! Why add steps? iv. Galleries List is horribly frustrating to scroll. there should be a user option to list alphabetically, not just from last time used. v. Recommended section: does not return to last spot on Home section, so you have to scroll to find spot every time - what a waste of time! 3. ADD to Gallery i. 4 steps instead of 2! Why so cumbersome/un-zen?! ii. can not add to more sets than 1 at a time, so repeat i. What is the point of extra step “done” if you can’t choose multiple categories?! 4. LOADING TOO SLOW. images load quite slow, even with 150M WiFi download speed 5. LIMITED SEARCH: Search Categories are very limited. Many images are junk. Bad quality shots. Not well conceived or layed out. Weak subjects. Expected more from 500px vs flickr/instagram etc. 6. ODD FOLLOW: i. Finding people to follow is limiting & only works on 500px suggestions?! Suggestion A.I. not too smart or precise or relevant. Ii. Plus 500px suggests people with no pictures?! Too many curators available instead of real photographers adding content - please distinguish photographers from curators more clearly, thanks. 7. NO PINTEREST Share: Pinterest has been popular for years, but there's still no Pinterest link for images, just FB & Twitter as if they're Godly & nothing else is worthy. Sure, you can not clutter UI with every social site button but Twitter & FB are not image sites...and Pinterest is bigger than 500px + Instagram... so now it's very inconvenient, one has to copy link, add site to Pinterest, then pin... OVERALL: strange implementation. bizarre navigation. limited functionality. incomplete. impractical. slow to improve!

I could only figure out how to create Galleries. I had to go to the website on mobile to do it. Also I can’t add any of my photos to a gallery in the app, on the web I can.. why? Those annoyances aside I LOVE this app! Way nicer looking than Flickr, I don’t know why Flickr doesn’t have a dark mode (if they do it should be default). I also love that my photos got exposure much quicker than on Instagram. And I feel like these are actual photographers not influencers and bots. So far so great! Just NEED the option to create galleries and add our own photos to them. Weird that that’s not an option it’s as if we are missing the icon for it. It’s easy to find on their mobile website so it’s a very odd omission. PLEASE FIX THIS YOU GUYS! It will make a world of difference.