Agora: The Worldwide Awards 12+

I love the app but it doesn’t always work. Sometimes I submit my pictures for challenges and it appears like it’s going to load and then it goes blank and it does not load. I’ve missed out on many challenges this way. There’s like a 50/50 chance that my picture will actually submit to the challenge. And now they have those credits which was not the best route to take. Now not only do I have a 50% chance that my picture may not submit to a challenge, but if it doesn’t upload to the challenge, it still uses up my credit so then I can’t even work on another picture to upload... and there’s a section where you can watch a video a day to get a free credit a day, and when I try, it says “Unable to play video” so nothing works properly. I was hoping to just focus on this photography app but with its glitches, I’m looking back at the others I’ve used before. Their customer service has been great but they have not been able to solve my problem. I just want to compete fairly in these challenges and have a fair shot at winning and earning some cash.

I have been a member of the AGORA community from its beginning. I was very impressed when I first joined. It was a fun and engaging app. What started out as a positive experience has changed as AGORA tried to grow faster than what they could realistically support. The app is filled with bugs and stolen photos. The user interface has always been cumbersome and promised changes never came to fruition. The app is unusable from a iPhoneX. This is has been reported and to date no resolution.

This app used to be a beautiful community of amazing artists and staff, even the core team was involved in sharing their art. Then they started hosting ai competitions. Now it is no longer an honest or artist-minded platform, otherwise they would protect their artists from this talentless leeching atrocity against artists. Stable diffusion images aren’t art, they’re stolen amalgamations of the styles and artwork that millions of artists have done so far, used against their will to create text-to-image crap. It takes no skill to create except typing a word prompt. It’s the antithesis of art. And now they have people submitting ai photos in photography competitions. They sure do hard work curating and barring me from sharing my real art because of nudity, yet widely celebrate nudity on the app. I was even told my work couldn’t be posted because of frontal nudity several times when the photo of the year winner was a fully exposed frontal nude. The team continuously stands by decisions and opinions that are completely hypocritical. But they’re fine hosting text-to-image algorithmic nonsense and having it compete against real art. It’s over… have fun competing against robots.