Shutterfly vs 500px
When comparing Shutterfly vs 500px, the Slant community recommends 500px for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud photo storage and portfolio services?” 500px is ranked 5th while Shutterfly is ranked 9th.
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Pros
Pro Used by a lot of sports teams for free photo gathering
Pro Beautiful interface
Pro Has a free tier that allows selling photos
500px has a free tier that allows uploading 20 photos a week and earn money from them.
Pro Opportunity for exposure
Pro Commerce options
Pro Portfolio can be built without knowing code
Has a visual editor for non-coders and complete CSS, JavaScript and HTML access for coders.
Cons
Con Hard to download photos
Downloads are limited to single photos, not full albums.
Con No Lightroom integration
Shutterfly apparently has or had an API for uploading photos, but the only Lightroom plugin to do so is outdated and crashes while trying to upload.
Con Poor site design
There are multiple "silos" in the site with different user interfaces for the same function, and with different bugs in each. For instance, trying to import from Flickr the support person had me navigate to the Flickr connection UI via Create Photo Book (which actually worked, but didn't give me an easy way for others to draw from my Flickr-hosted photos), because the "Connect to Flickr" function in the main upload screen was broken. Albums in "My Photos" have drastically different capabilities compared to albums in "Shared Sites". This leads to confusion and completely unhelpful support/help documentation.