500px Relaunches Beta for Chinese Site After Contributor Protest

October 22, 2015 Marco | Editor

By Ivanna Attie 500px has today announced the relaunching in beta of their Chinese mirror site 500px.me. The new beta comes after the very negative feedback received from their contributors that lead the company to shut down the site the day after it first launched. The New Beta After the community reaction became clear, 500px began sending personalised apology emails to some star contributors, which only added fuel to the fire… …read more

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Marco | Editor

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