You probably need to be patient. Jay is on here and might see your comment but I would think he is snowed under with updates and new machine listings?

It can take up to a year for image submissions to be posted on IPDB. It's a huge task to update so many machines in the database.

https://www.ipdb.org/changes.pl

Jay is constantly working on it. He is still adding new games and adjusting old submissions.
It says he made over 600 changes last month.

Give it time, as KenLayton said, it can take up to a year.

You can try, I don’t believe Jay is looking for help though. I think he’s happy with his workflow. I know the backlog kills us, waiting potentially a year, but maybe Jay likes having the constant work.

Good luck!

Hi,

For what game did you upload pictures, please? Reply here, then I can look for it and process it right away.

I'd say upload the many you have instead of uploading serially, if that was your plan. Often, I am working on a particular game and wait until a point where I process all submissions in queue for that game, all at once. It's not always FIFO (first in, first out).

This is a good time to again let pinsiders know that anytime you wonder why your IPDB submission has not posted, please please email me and ask. I welcome status inquiries. You will not bother or annoy me to email me to ask! I promise! I prefer it much better than stumbling upon threads on this site where people seem unhappy and I don't get to know.

LOL. I showed up today to check status on a request for some specific help that I placed on this site yesterday. And then I stumbled upon this thread.

Periodically, I drop by to search this site for my name or I'll search for "IPDB" to find comments or complaints that would not otherwise come to me. There is a human nature thing where pinsiders and RGP'ers will tell each other things about the IPDB that I could act on, but they don't tell ME. For instance, someone might say on pinside, "The IPDB is wrong" but I'll have nothing in queue to correct it and no email. It's always been this way and it used to frustrate me but now I'm used to it. I consider this site searching as a part of my "outreach" efforts.

My personal bogey is 500 changes per month. That's when I feel satisfied that I have done well for that month.

I did not know that!

In the sense that our users contribute the content that we show, I look at it that I am receiving gobs of help. In terms of giving someone access to the internal workings of the site to process that which our users contribute, for display on the site, is where the choke is. I have not figured out how to interview for apprenticeship with the site. One cannot discern what degree of help is being offered, what level of commitment. Are they willing to research or do they want to just post pictures, etc.

The "same" pics? Do not submit other people's pics, please. But, you likely meant "similar" pics, where two different photographers each send pics of his game? Don't worry about that. We want to have pics of at least two examples of every game which means repeat images but of different games. Also, if you think your pics are better than the ones we have, maybe in better lighting, maybe in sharper focus, maybe in larger size, maybe your game has the correct bumper caps whereas the game on the IPDB has wrong ones, then yeah submit your pics and maybe tell us why, in the Notes to Editor box in the Submission Tool.

Thank you.