I'm a (fairly recent) Shutterstock contributor and think search could be much improved, especially across languages.
I tried to communicate with SS on this subject, explaining the problem and stating that I had some experience with Lucene and SOLR.
The person I exchanged with ("Manager Contributor Success") was very nice, but we never really had an actual conversation about how search actually works; it seemed all he really wanted to do was convince me that all was for the best and if not, that it would eventually be.
Wouldn't it be nice if there was some kind of technical forums where contributors/customers and SS developers could really interact, from a technical point of view? If managed well, such a network could provide great value for SS, at probably very little cost ;-)
I'm a (fairly recent) Shutterstock contributor and think search could be much improved, especially across languages.
I tried to communicate with SS on this subject, explaining the problem and stating that I had some experience with Lucene and SOLR.
The person I exchanged with ("Manager Contributor Success") was very nice, but we never really had an actual conversation about how search actually works; it seemed all he really wanted to do was convince me that all was for the best and if not, that it would eventually be.
Wouldn't it be nice if there was some kind of technical forums where contributors/customers and SS developers could really interact, from a technical point of view? If managed well, such a network could provide great value for SS, at probably very little cost ;-)