Due to health reasons I had to put the camera down for the last couple of years. It was even hard for me to use the computer in any meaningful manner.
So I came back to upload some more pictures to Pbase since I am on the mend and am surprised to see the same old site that does not have any changes that I could see. At the start of my photography career I did use this site for sharing my photos with clients but it became clear that other sites were reactive to it's user requests and they made changes that made sense. More clearly, they responded to the user support requests.
It seems so quiet here in the forums which I believe is an indication of the activity on Pbase user sites. During my sabbatical my son had monitored my emails and did pay for my Pbase. This was a site of such great potential when it first came out and if you compare Pbase to other sharing sites that started around the same time you will find the other sites that have made big improvements while Pbase skates by on the same old interface with really little in the way of improvements.
Having come back and seeing what has not happened to Pbase it is a good time for me to just continue somewhere else. I'm seeing the same thing in the forums like they are not responding to requests or even simple one off user having problems. It is sad that they had such a great thing going but sitting on your laurels taking the user fees and not trying to do anything to it in the way of improvements. Out of sheer curiosity I used a site that calculates the value of a domain based on its activity and some other criteria and its interesting to see our great Pbase have a value of $81,303.00 while sites that started after Pbase like Smugmug at 23,202,855.00 and Flickr at a whopping 86,588,383.00. That is downright shameful.