Very unhappy member I have been a top 10% contributor for several years but I have decided not to renew my membership. When I joined it was all about gaining points and awards. I accumulated over 4 million points and then the points disappeared and we got "coins". The top prices/rewards needing 80,000 coins were bought straight away although the top person on the leaderboard had at the time only a quarter of that, so I don't know what happened there. I live in the UK and most of the rewards are only applicable to to people living in the US. This is apart from E-books which I find quite basic and of no use to me. I have raised the question as to what is happening with the points on several; occasions, but only ever received a glib answer. I also won a contest several months ago, but I have never received the prize which was a canon lens. I have asked when I will receive my prize time and time again via email, but to-date still haven't received an answer. I received a message on viewbug messages from Ollie who apparently is a co-founder, this was when my membership had lapsed. I have returned his message asking the questions above, but of course never received a reply. This is a sad state of affairs as I liked the camaraderie of the site. But enough is enough.

Great community & website tool Great sense of community among photographers. Plenty of contests and chances to interact with other members. The shining feature is the pro membership comes with a website and domain name included. I've kept my account over the years mainly because the website builder is stupid simple and looks great.

There are a lot of contests and… There are a lot of contests and challenges that give you the opportunity to challenge yourself in the highest level.

Diversity of talent: Good. Nudity: Not so good. I like the diversity of talent on VIEWBUG. So, I’m enjoying what others share and I learn from them as well. It’s a nice community. One thing that concerns me is the nudity. I don’t know about others but I did not expect to see nudity (borderline pornography) on a site like VIEWBUG. I hope that there is a way to control that.

The best photography site everanage a very lean site with… You manage a very lean site with quality images. The only comment I feel like making is that you enhance very beautiful images but which are often too modified by correction programs. I consider "photograph" the image that comes out of the camera with little modification. Many of the contest-winning images are visually striking but do not represent reality. They become "images" and are no longer "photos". I am a lover of Salgado's photography and therefore you understand well that I don't appreciate too much modified photos. You are still number one! Compliments.