YouPic

YouPic has created an exciting world for me. My acquaintance with this site started a year ago and my serious activity has taken place in the last few months and continues with enthusiasm every day. Because I can get acquainted with anywhere in the world and with the creativity and human outlook of artists and art lovers around the world, and it has been extremely exciting and instructive for me to communicate with mental images and fascinating nature in diverse cultures; So much so that despite serious concerns on Facebook over the years, it has now forced me to visit this site several times a day and refresh myself by breathing in it!
YouPic, with its importance to the technical, artistic and technical details of photographs and the possibility of receiving feedback from viewers, has been able to deepen a closer look at artists and photographers and art lovers to nature and man, and to develop meaningful human communication and culture of tolerance. Synergy in human relations in the global village helped the people of this time!
In turn, I sincerely thank the staff of this site and its active, responsible, persistent and educated staff.
Khayyam Ebrahimi

It is a good platform for both professionals and beginners. Inspiring ideas to learn from and its also easy to use.

Excellent services and friendly environment. A lot of interesting material. Professional management and stuff.

I joined after ditching 500px after they got bought by a Chinese company, I started uploading my "fine art" photos and got lots of good responses, and actually more action thanm I am getting on Flickr. However, I took the offer to upgrade to a "Pro" account. Now I just saw that theyu had taken $119 out of my account to renew. But heres the thing - without giving me a heads up. So I wrote and told them that I had not intended to renew, and could I please cancel and get refunded.
Was told this is not possible.
I got back to them and suggested that it was indeed possible, but maybe just not their policy and wanted to know why not.

"You entered an agreement when you first signed up for the upgrade where we clearly state that there will be a renewal of the upgrade unless the subscription is cancelled before the renewal date. There was time to cancel the subscription earlier and we assume that those who do not cancel their upgrade before the renewal date wishes to keep their subscription. I'm sorry but we are not going to refund your subscription. "

Is it just me or is that rubbish? They have lost me as a customer for sure. I cant be doing with that kind of attitude.

Constant harassment to upgrade to premium membership. Email after email after email. Promising you that you'll make a profit off your images if you hand over money to YouPic. Surely YouPic will be the ones making a profit off my images by me paying them? You are also limited to only being able to upload 2 images per day.
The site itself is smooth running, people can like, nominate as an inspiration or 'repic' your images. There is no real critique to guide photographers, just the courtesy "nice pic".
It lets itself down in the points system it operates. The more likes, comments you get and the more you like and comment you make you get points. YouPic is riddled with high ranking photographers who comment on everything just for the points. Some of the top ranking photographers do not have a good set of images in their gallery and i can only presume endless likes, comments etc have put them there. Also the more followers you have the more likely you are to have a higher ranking regardless of your quality, people tend to like images because they're following someone and knowing in return they'll get likes back. That's the huge fault for this site.

Too supportive platform for beginners it's too good for me they helps a lot on their platform. Even their manager is too supportive her name is Lisa

Great site to share your photos! Even I started in no long time ago when you post a pic there many people can see it quickly! Incredible

They always were pushing their premium offering. $119 a year. Yes you read right. However, I never saw any value in that. It would increase your exposure and more people would like your picture. I suspect many of these are not genuine "likes" but a hope that I'll "like" yours, maybe you'll like mine. Ok that's human nature. I only liked pics, I really liked. There are some good photographers on the site. There is also a lot of lower quality pics that get massive likes due to social interaction or popularity of the photographer. After using it for awhile, the site has a clique highschool feel. The youpic team is clearly after monetizing the site. Endless promotions to get 50% off. Still a whopping $69 for no apparent value. Obviously none of this is working well to pay for the Ferrari of the owner. So now the latest idea us to limit non-paying members to one pic upload every 12 hours. Since my presence is almost non existent, I do care. But it clearly shows the mindset of Youpic. Today I got a personal message from them with a personal 50% off code.
"I really like your work, that is why made a special 50% off coupon for you. Anna Somebody" That is the final straw for me. Stay away. Save your money.

I was impressed with YouPic at first. The introductory price was 22.48 USD a quarter, full-price 44.97 for what is called premium. I was happy with this and have been using the site since 2015.
In 2019 I started to get regular emails from Lisa encouraging me to upgrade to Pro. Eventually, I succumbed since a reasonable discount rate of 131 USD was offered. What I did not realize was a year later I would get a notification that my credit card had been debited 359 USD. In these difficult economic times due to Corona this was a very unpleasant surprise and I wanted to cancel.
It is at this point that you read the terms and conditions carefully and see that if you cancel there is no refund. I also have found no way within the site to change my membership level down to a lower level. So it looks like I will be cancelling at the end of my current membership year - I have set a reminder of the renewal date to prevent being scalped again.

Reputable companies notify you 1-2 weeks before renewal the date your renewal occurs and the price.

So - yes I like the YouPic site, it is fast and responsive. However this failure to notify you a couple of weeks before the annual renewal of what you are going to be charged and no option to cancel and get a refund of unused time is a big turn off. The same functionality as in PROI is available on other sites at a 10th of the cost.

If you like navel gazing, and accumulating "favorites" ( akin to likes on facebook), "repics" where someone saves your photo to their profile, and maybe getting lucky and having your photo selected as an "inspiration", then you might like YouPic. I joined free for about 10 days, over which I posted 145 ofmy photos, which were viewed over 45K times. I also had almost 4,000 "favorites", almost 2,000 "repics and 2 inspiration stars. I was at Level 11 when I deleted my account. Why did I delete, you ask? Well, Youpic takes a lot of work to advance levels, get fav's and repic's, and inspirations. I started out only going on the site each morning and evening, but quickly found myself checking it more and more during the day. Keeping up with the comments left by others becomes a real chore. You can also buy a premium membership, which gives you perks including supposedly better exposure, but I didn't bite. In the end, all it is boils down to hitech "navel gazing" You might like it, but not for me...

I am in Iran and with many restrictions in all areas, but here it has created a sense of success and hope for me.

I love how this site has leaderboards and is constantly updated. After being let down by Flickr, I feel lucky to have found Youpic.

Really good to have some inspiration if you are a photographer. It have leaderboard of photographers in every region.

This site respects art so much and i love it. They found me on instagram and then helped me to growing my profile.