Lightroom: 500px plugin unsupported and no longer works with "Classic" at all

Sadly, it's 500px who decided to pull the plug on the plug-in, so it's not looking hopeful unless you can convince them to change their minds. https://support.500px.com/hc/en-us/articles/204728107-I-m-having-Lightroom-plugin-problems-

Yeah, I saw that. Despite the problems, it was still working but now won't install at all. We need Jeffrey Freidl to step in, I guess.

"We need Jeffrey Freidl to step in, I guess."

That may be unlikely, given how they treated him some years ago: http://regex.info/blog/2011-09-20/1852

Here's the response I got from 500px. If there is some bad blood between them and Adobe, people should grow up and fix it. And no, I am not going to swap my workflow just because Mr. "Customer Excellence" said so. I may give up on LR because of recent bugs and performance problems, but I can find other websites than 500px to give my $ to. I suggest others do so as well.

Robbie Sinclair (500px)

Dec 15, 23:44 EST

Hi,

Thanks for reaching out.

Unfortunately the 500px Lightroom plugin is now unsupported, meaning our CX Team (Support) is no longer available for assistance or troubleshooting with old or existing versions. The 500px Lightroom plugin can no longer be downloaded and 500px cautions the usage of the 500px Lightroom plugin as this product is deprecated and will eventually be removed.

We suggest the following article here for troubleshooting tips:

https://support.500px.com/hc/en-us/articles/204728107-I-m-having-Lightroom-plugin-problems-

I would check out Adobe Bridge and Photoshop for managing an effective photo workflow.

Best regards,

Robbie
Customer Excellence
500px

I too will discontinue my subscription to 500px if they don't have a new plugin soon.

While I fully understand that Adobe expects vendors to write and maintain plugins related to their service, it also reflects poorly on Adobe when their professional photo editing product doesn't work with one of the most popular professional photo publishing services. 

I'd really like to see 500px resolve this issue. In absence of that, however, it'd be hugely valuable to their customers if Adobe investigated the issue. I'd like to imagine that if Adobe reached out to 500px, their respective engineers could figure out the problems. (I am assuming that 500px discontinued support due to ongoing problems that they were unable to resolve.)

For me, this isn't just about the convenience of publishing directly from Lightroom. It's also about being able to track, in Lightroom, what has and has not been published, and what needs to be updated based on changes to the metadata. Without this, it's quite likely that my metadata in Lightroom and 500px will become out-of-sync, as opposed to needing to update e.g. tags in two places.

Jeremy

Today I was able to install the plug-in. However, when you try to login, it goes to an authorization page and if you click on Authorize, you get a 404 "Page not found". I have already cancelled my renewal. Looking at Flickr again.