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New CC0 Stock Photo Website

40 points by seekingnames 11y ago

lholden 11y ago
First thoughts in my head after seeing the title: "What's CC0? Some C compiler? Why 0? Why are there stock photos of it"...
- hobaak 11y ago
  Creative Commons?
- vdaniuk 11y ago
  Due to the considerable amount of HN comments complaining about definitions in submission titles, I can't help but propose a new acronym. Introducing NIMTAU: not in my thesaurus
- seekingnames 11y ago
  cc0 = creative common 0 which means its part of public domain. Here's an explanation: https://creativecommons.org/about/cc0 https://creativecommons.org/about/cc0
  - eatonphil 11y ago
    tldr; it is free to use for personal and commercial use without attribution (per my understanding)
rw2 11y ago
A lot of photos from unsplash, is this just an aggregator?
linksbro 11y ago
"New CC0 Stock Photo Website" with a member login and a /shopping cart/? And you want my email address before I download a photo? How about "New Stock Photo Website using CC0 photos to gain an audience, impending expansion into the pay-for-stock-photos market" Try these real sites that won't try to take your money: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page http://unsplash.com/ http://unsplash.com/
- seekingnames 11y ago
  Hi, Sorry for confusion; we ask for emails because we send you a copy to that email address. But you are correct; in the near future there will be a box that lets people either download immediately or have it sent to email instead. All images are currently free and the plan is for it to remain so. Regarding the cart, that's a good point: its a hint on the additional features we have planned for the future, some of which may require a small payment.
  - personjerry 11y ago
    Why would you send an email with the photo? At best that's unnecessary and at worst that's shady. By failing to deny the suspicions about payments and emails, you've only served to confirm them.
    - seekingnames 11y ago
      Thanks for the feedback. The reason the email box is there is we built this on Wordpress using Easy digital download and the plugin to offer the free download is built with the email box. We hear you that it is more inconvenient and will work on putting a pop up box that offers the choice for a free instant download or send to email. The site is very much a work in progress...in the meantime if you don't feel comfortable putting your email in, perhaps you can wait for us to fix this and come back at a later date. thanks again!
NameNickHN 11y ago
This looks neat but the loading time needs improvement.
- seekingnames 11y ago
  and I just wrote post about speed. How embarrassing....http://alana.io/speed-speed-and-more-speed/ http://alana.io/speed-speed-and-more-speed/

40 points by seekingnames 11y ago

First thoughts in my head after seeing the title: "What's CC0? Some C compiler? Why 0? Why are there stock photos of it"...

hobaak 11y ago
Creative Commons?
vdaniuk 11y ago
Due to the considerable amount of HN comments complaining about definitions in submission titles, I can't help but propose a new acronym. Introducing NIMTAU: not in my thesaurus
seekingnames 11y ago
cc0 = creative common 0 which means its part of public domain. Here's an explanation: https://creativecommons.org/about/cc0 https://creativecommons.org/about/cc0
- eatonphil 11y ago
  tldr; it is free to use for personal and commercial use without attribution (per my understanding)

rw2 11y ago

A lot of photos from unsplash, is this just an aggregator?

linksbro 11y ago

"New CC0 Stock Photo Website" with a member login and a /shopping cart/? And you want my email address before I download a photo? How about "New Stock Photo Website using CC0 photos to gain an audience, impending expansion into the pay-for-stock-photos market" Try these real sites that won't try to take your money: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page http://unsplash.com/ http://unsplash.com/

seekingnames 11y ago
Hi, Sorry for confusion; we ask for emails because we send you a copy to that email address. But you are correct; in the near future there will be a box that lets people either download immediately or have it sent to email instead. All images are currently free and the plan is for it to remain so. Regarding the cart, that's a good point: its a hint on the additional features we have planned for the future, some of which may require a small payment.
- personjerry 11y ago
  Why would you send an email with the photo? At best that's unnecessary and at worst that's shady. By failing to deny the suspicions about payments and emails, you've only served to confirm them.
  - seekingnames 11y ago
    Thanks for the feedback. The reason the email box is there is we built this on Wordpress using Easy digital download and the plugin to offer the free download is built with the email box. We hear you that it is more inconvenient and will work on putting a pop up box that offers the choice for a free instant download or send to email. The site is very much a work in progress...in the meantime if you don't feel comfortable putting your email in, perhaps you can wait for us to fix this and come back at a later date. thanks again!

NameNickHN 11y ago

This looks neat but the loading time needs improvement.

seekingnames 11y ago
and I just wrote post about speed. How embarrassing....http://alana.io/speed-speed-and-more-speed/ http://alana.io/speed-speed-and-more-speed/