Ipernity or Flickr, that's the question :-)

I also have accounts in Flickr and in Ipernity. I think Ipernity is the better Community!

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I still have my flickr account, but I'm not using it any longer. Apart from the censorship idea they had 2 years ago, I was getting more and more annoyed by all the awards and the glitter that takes over. Ipernity is a more "intimate" experience, I found my virtual home here...

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As a European I prefer to help a young small european group of people, and not the big multinational Yahoo (owner of Flickr). And as an extra: Ipernity is much better!

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Flickr is not comparable to Ipernity. Iper is a small village which makes it much easier to communicate with friends. On the other hand, flickr offers a lot of inspiration and great artists among the millons of users. I use both of them :-)

think so too and I´m using both too... (but iper much more...)

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I have accounts on both, but prefer this site. I've been here a year, and although none of my photos have ever been on the front page, I enjoy the sense of community I find here. I'll probably keep both for a while. I'm on facebook too, but only have a few contacts. That one can really get out of control if you're not careful.
I'd hate to see you leave here, but would look at your photos there if you did.
I like the reply feature here, and Flickr is just too big, and the new front page has put me off too.
That's my 2 cents worth anyway!

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Ipernity is "familly" website
Fluckr is more industrial (more and more and more....)

to summarize a lot :))

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Village or Big City? A good question. A few months ago, I deleted my iper account and created a Flickr one. But finally, I think iper is more user friendly and I came back to iper and deleted my Flickr account ! In any case, I will not use 2 accounts at the same time.

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Thanks everyone for stopping by and taking the time to comment :) I appreciate it very much. Few days ago I seriously thought about cancelling this account because I felt that having two photo accounts was too much. I thought that if I wanted people to see my photos Flickr was the better option because it was so much bigger community. After reading what you have been saying here, and after answering my own question why I am actually spending time in sites like this, I have changed my mind.

Olaf says that Ipernity is a better community...... In a away he is right.
Dieter talks about more “intimate” experience here on Ipernity....... Very true.
Paul wants to support the little man :)...... Noting wrong with that :)
Mazell talks about small village feeling and easier communications between friends, (things I know so well coming from a small village) Mazell also talks about the benefit of having two accounts....... I totally agree with Mazel.
DerBaum agrees with Mazell and I agree with DerBaum :)
John enjoys the sense of community and hates to see me leave :) ....... This is what I wanted to hear :-) :-) With joke aside, nice friends like John are one of the reasons why I have a hard time leaving Ipernity.
Anthony Le Bourier mentions the family feeling..... Probably the biggest difference between Flickr and Iperntiy.
Chiappi tried both accounts and finds Ipernity more user friendly...... I have to agree here also.

I might change my mind later but after putting my thinking cap on I have decided to keep both accounts :-) I like the small village feeling and the communication part here on Ipernity so I have decided to keep this as my main account and spend less time on Flickr. I will decide what to do with my Flickr account in the beginning of next year when my subscription expires.

Best regards,
Gunnsteinn

I have accounts on the 2 sites and I don't use flickr anymore. The community is really much more active and attractive.

Two accounts for me too, but the Flickr one is only to maintain some contacts. The Flickr one is not a paying one, because I hated the censorship Flickr step. Me too, I will miss you if you decide not to stay...

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Thanks for stopping by Roberto :) I have already decided to keep both accounts but I will upload most of my photos here. I agree with most everyone that commented here that the community feeling is much nicer here.

I also have two accounts, but I don`t use the flickr one any longer.
Ipernity for me simply fits better ... more opportunities, more familiar and not that "crowded" as on flickr. On ipernity I have a much bigger community-feeling.

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Thanks for your input IG-J. Seams to be the same with everyone that chose Ipernity over Flickr.

Nothing really new to add from my side.

I kept my flickr account - never renewed the pro, so t is limited now. Reason for this being that there are lots of quite intresting photographers there too. They are there and not here, unfortunately!

Flickr is the bigger place, but with a lot of useless stuff as well, not to mention the scanned and stolen things you can find there or things that would definitely fall under jurisdictional ban even in the more liberal countries.

Some of my pictures I have still posted there. Views there are practically none (I have way far more visits here on my stream). Unless you are not really exeptionally good or have some skin on your stream you simply get lost in the mass of pictures. And if you are good enough, you'll get copied...

Yes I go there and look at things. I even look at other sites.

Yet, I feel better here!
-Kristian

Thanks Kristian for taking the time to comment. I appreciate it :) You are right, there are lots of interesting and great photographers on Flickr, but I have to admit that I had totally forgotten about these talented photographers when I was trying to find a reason why I should keep both accounts.

I really enjoy looking at great photos and I know I can learn much from it, but in my profile on Flickr I mention that I am there as much for the photos as the people that takes these photos. The communication part is much better here and that is one of the main reason why I am going to keep this as my main photo site :)

Thanks again Kristian :)

i keep a free flickr account and only post there once a week, just to stay in touch with good contacts.

Thanks Jake for you input :) What you do is exactly what I am going to do :)

I use Flickr too, but only to visit an old friend!

Seams to be the case with most Ipernity users who have two accounts :)

As I see most of the comment-writers have two accounts (including myself).
I could type a lot of reasons for one of both but this are just logical and rational reasons.
The more important thing for me would be:

Where I am feeling more at home?

I got my own answer month ago and I am still sure that it is.
That means: I keep both accounts but one is getting more attention.

I only have to look at my answer to your question, to know what to do :) Thanks Gina :)

Hi Gussi!
Oh, I know your problem... it's too much to care for 2 or more accounts.
Perhaps you know that I also have a second account at Flickr. I more stay at Ipernity than at FlickrLand. It's not easy to take a decision... for me, too:
I hate the pink hearts and blinking stars, the cute glamour cats and also the golden globe... all these stupid trophies. Okay, a lot of user like them but I like 2 or 3 sentences for my picture - I want criticism and discussion. You're one of my contacts which do that!!!
But, at Flickr there are more high quality images - my opinion!
Friends are here and there... as you can see... it's no easy to decide... as you know ;-)
Hope I see you... where ever ;-)

Thanks Sandra. One moment I want to cancel one of my accounts (sometimes Flickr and sometimes Ipernity) and the next moment I want to keep them both. I have decided to keep them both for now, but I expect to spend more time here in the future.
I agree with you about the quality of the photos at Flickr. The community at Flickr is so much bigger so I guess it is only natural to find more great photographers there.

As you may noticed I'm not active on Ipernity anymore. It has several reasons. Firstly the activity on this site eg: groups, competitions, discussions and secondly the photos itself. Flickr has a high variety of photos and their quality. You can learn and improve your skills on Flickr what I don't see here on Ipernity. As for blinking stars and stuff.....yeah....love it! /me smiles to Sandra:o) And its fact....if a photo is bad you won't receive anything. In the end it counts the same. Good quality shot...blinking star....crap....nothing;) As for your decision....completely up to you. You have to set your priorities:)

Thanks for your input Little Krawler :) Some people might not agree with us but I agree with you that it is much easier to find good quality photos on Flickr than here, and that is one of the reasons why I am going to keep both these accounts.

haha, repeat repeat repeat
allmost all I wanted to say has already been said.
I also have an expired flickr account, after messing up with thousands of German users,
flickr is not a friendly environment for critical users, my critical photos have been censored.
I still have the account because of the old contacts

and when I have new photos on ipernity then I create a collection with thumbs,
these then point to ipernity - so my old contacts can easily find my photos - here on ipernity :-)

Helpful: iperlabs: www.novamedia.it/IperLabs
example: www.flickr.com/photos/ef-s/3245642686
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Thanks Wiki Tango for your comment and thanks for this interesting link :) I appreciate it :)

Good discussion which I expect very many people have read and are insterested in!! I enjoy exploring the "Latest Docs & Posts" here at Ipernity because it's relatively easy to go through them all. Whereas on Flickr there are several thousand photos per minute posted and it's ard to browse any interesting photos. It's more by luck than choice if you see them!!

Thanks for your input Nigel :)

My Flickr Pro account expires in 2 days, and I've been downloading and deleting all of my older photos back to my computer. I've had many photos used without my permission, and some of my best ones were only viewed a few times. I'll still go and look at my contacts photos, but this will be my main account now.

Do you know if there is some loss of quality when we upload photos to sites like Flickr and Ipernity and then download them back to our computer like you are doing now. I ask because I know some sites that allows photos compress the photos when we upload them to their site.

Oh I have been going back and forth in my thoughts about these two accounts. At this moment I am going to keep them both but I am not sure what I will do after a year when both my accounts expires.

Interesting discussion.
I did not revew my flickr accound because of the censorship, and they are still going on as far as I know. I removed all but three shots from my profile.
I hardly upload any shots at all on facebook. It seem that it differs from country to country, but users in Denmark can not count on keeping the copyright of any photo they have uploaded to facebook. At least that is the last I heard (around Christmas)

Hi Guðrún :) Thanks for your input :) I have just stared to use facebook and though I post some of my photos there, that site will never replace a site like this one.

Iss - þú ferð ekkert frá okkur :o)

Passaðu þig bara á því á facebook að þeir eiga myndirnar eftir að þú setur þær þangað inn - jafnvel þó svo að þú lokir síðunni þinni... Ekki það að það skipti svakalegu máli þannig ef maður setur þær inn í lítilli upplausn en allavega veistu af þessu...

Sæl Ragga :) Ég var nú bara að sjá þetta svar frá þér hérna núna. Nei ég fer ekki neitt, en ég hef líka ákveðið að vera með báðar síðurnar. Ég last það einhverstaðar í þessum löngu skrifum um reglurnar á Facebook að þeir eigi ekki myndirnar heldur séum við að gefa þeim leyfi til að afrita allar myndir þannig að þeir eigi þær til ef kerfið þeirra hrynur.
Ég má nú til með að nefna það finnst við erum að tala um eignarétt að ég var að selja mynd sem ég er með á Flickr. Ég hef gefið töluvert mikið af myndum í gegnum tíðina sem fólk hefur beðið mig um en þetta er fyrsta myndin sem ég hef selt :) Yahúúú segi ég nú bara :)

Hi Gunnsteinn:

Watch out what you upload to Facebook. All that stuff will not belong to you anymore, only to Facebook Inc. t´s the same trouble with blogger and some other virtual communities. There are very few sites who respect the intellectual property.

Regards.

Ragga was also telling me the same thing :) I guess I have to make sure I upload small photos then it does not matter much. Thanks for your comment :)

Interesting discussion!!!! I have a Flickr account but just with 2 or 3 photos!!!! I really feel between friends on Ipernity!