I have been a member for years and love… I have been a member for years and love the site but today I have been locked out of my Ultimate account and I have no way to ask what has happened. When I try to log in I appear to have no account and am told to "get membership". Can someone help please.

Wow, the community is tight-knit Wow, the community is tight-knit and super supportive! You can sense the camaraderie, and the tips you get from others are genuinely helpful. It's more than just a contest platform; it's a learning hub.

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.

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.

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.