Seriously, Is 500px Even Still Relevant to the Photography Community?

Photo sharing platform and photography community 500px has recently announced some major changes, the biggest of which involve shutting down its stock photo subsidiary 500px Marketplace and removing the option to license photos under the Creative Commons license. In place of the 500px Marketplace, the company began offering "a spectrum of premium and midstock-priced royalty-free imagery" directly and exclusively through Getty Images (worldwide) and Visual China Group (People's Republic of China)...