1xReviews of 1x.com

The site is okay for creative ideas, but as far as community is concerned, very biased and some rules are not enforced. Curarion system isn't really effective, and the certificates are only valid as long as you keep a subscription. If you decide to no longer stay subscribed, you lose all of your published work and certifications. The forums are cult-like.

Sadly, 1x has become largely AI-driven. And, as a result, it has become all but impossible to get any image published that doesn’t neatly fit with the AI algorithm. If your work is mostly street photography, you would be better served not wasting your $$ attempting to be published here. As a photographer who has successfully published well over 100 images of various subjects on 1x, I can tell you street images rarely make it past the AI barrier. And it’s largely AI now—despite what some at 1x might say to the contrary. Oh, of course the “expert curators” will throw the occasional bone, correcting what the Member curators (read: AI) got wrong. And they will decide to publish an image that should’ve never been rejected in the first place. Personally, I will not sacrifice my own creative vision simply to successfully publish images that pleases the AI bots. So long, 1x. It was nice while it was real and driven by people not AI.