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I have been a member on Ipernity since August 9th 2007 and I have been a member on Flickr for a year now. I am still using both sites and I am sure I will continue to do that. One of the reasons why I signed up here in stet of only staying at Flickr, was because I liked to have blog, though I was not sure what to do with it, and also because I was able to store video and music; which I actually have not done so far :)
I had only been here for three weeks when I wrote in my blog that I was getting bored. I thought this site was too slow and that there was so little activity here. I did not like the fact that we did not have any groups and I also complained allot about “What’s hot” because that site was as boring and static as it possibly could be. Now less than three months later, (it actually feels likes two years because I have been in front of the screen for so long) I am enjoying this site as much- or even more than my Flickr site. We have groups here now but I am not using them as much as I thought I would, and I have to admit that most of the time I even forget they exist :) I was one of the people that shouted the loudest for groups, and though I am still sure that having groups adds to the fun, it is not as vital to keep Ipernity alive as I thought :)
This community has always been a little bit different than the community on flickr, and I am sure it has nothing to do with having groups or not. One of the reasons why I think Ipernity is a little bit different and more personal is the fact that we are able to see who has been visiting our site and because of how we are able to reply directly to comments we get. That part makes most of us communicate more with our friends than we would do on flickr.
The site “What’s hot” has changed a little bit for the better, but the biggest change so far is the fact that I have one photo there now :) Jibby ja jay :) This is my first photo there so I am very happy about that :) I can even admit that I have been looking at “What’s hot” every ten minutes to see how my baby is doing :) Everyone who has read this far knows that I am only trying to promote my photo with this blog, so please play along and vote for “Banff National Park” and keep me happy :)
I think “what’s hot” needs a facelift. I know how happy and exited I got when I saw my photo being posted there so I know it would be a good idea for our hard working Iperntiy staff to try to find a way to change that site again. It would be nice if more of our fellow members could see their own work there, and it would also be nice if we could see photos from more Iperntiy members. Allot of members are posting great photos every
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I know our staff is probably working hard every day to make this site better so I just want to say, keep up the good work guys :)
tuvalu pro says:
Congratulations though. It's a fantastic picture and worth making it to "What's hot!".
I know exactly how you feel since I just have my first picture there too:
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Gunnsteinn Jonsson pro replies:
tuvalu pro replies:
I think that is so great about Ipernity, there are so many helpful and supportive people around!
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teejaybee pro says:
I'm glad you're sticking around and enjoying the place - I can really appreciate pretty much every single one of your shots, and as i've said before - I learn a lot more from my contact's photos than I do from books or website articles. If I learn and get better and have more fun and take better shots, that means there's more stuff from me that you can appreciate, and vice versa.
Also, I had my first "successful" photo on flickr a while ago (weevil cornflake shot) and I can tell you, that although yes it was great and yes I appreciated the attention, I still take photos with my own desires in mind. It hasn't always been that way though... it's easy to be thinking "what will get peoples attention" but now that thought doesn't even cross my mind :)
Cheers!
Gunnsteinn Jonsson pro replies:
I have often speculated when I post a photo if it will be popular or not, but I have never set out to take a "popular" photo. Most of the time I am wrong about what will get peoples attention, so I would not be very successful if I was trying to take popular photos :) My main interest is taking landscape photos and photos of my family, and if that will get me into sites like "whats hot", then I will be happy. I have seen many nice photos in other than the landscape and portraits category, so my interest in trying something different in the nearest future has been woken :)
I am honored and I appreciate your nice words about my photos :) My experience is the same as yours about the learning process. What I have learned in those few months since I became a member on Ipernity and Flickr is probably more than I learned in previous ten years. I think it is ok to say without sounding like I am bragging about it, that my photos have been getting better lately :)
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En það er rétt hjá þér... það besta við Ipernity er að eiga samskipti við skemmtilegar manneskjur með sömu áhugamál og maður sjálfur ;o)
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Sanliaka says:
*me wave to you* ;-)
Gunnsteinn Jonsson pro replies:
Now when I have had a photo on the hot site I can see some pattern. Photos seams to go out after a certain time. This is something I did not notice before, but now when I spend most of my time looking at that site I can see how it works LOL I am sure our Ipernity staff is always working on improving this site so I should not send out a message like that without thinking it over first :) Thanks for taking the time to answer this .................. what ever we can call it :)
Roberto Ballerini pro says:
I agree with the idea that Ipernity and Flickr are more different that they seem.
Perhaps you're right in thinking What's Hot can be improved, but we succeded in using blogs to make new features and we can use blogs as a tamtam to point out great shots (as bigoode is doing, just as an example) and great photographers (as I did, before making the Take a look group).
A simple advice: if you want a greater possibility of being heard by the Team, add Team Ipernity to your network and add their member tag to this post (click on the Add a member link and start writing the name - there is a fine autocomplete feature).
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Gunnsteinn Jonsson pro replies:
What I wrote about the hot site and the improvements was to premature. i should have thought things over before I suggested some changes :) Like I mentioned in my answer to Sanliaka I just wanted people to know how happy I was when I saw my photo in the hot site. At that moment I wanted to see more photos go through the hot site so more people could feel as I did :) Now that I have been glued to the hot site for three days I can see that there is some pattern going on there :) Photos seam to go out after certain time so the site might not be as static as I thought it was.
Now when I have started to talk about the hot site again I think it might be a good idea to have three more sites; Gold silver and blablabla :) Just joking :) Our Ipernity staff is probably working hard on improving this site so now I am just going to post my photos and enjoy the conversations I have with people like you :) Thanks :)
I am You are says:
The gold, silver, bronze thing however is a bridge to far for me.
My suggestion would be an alternitive "what's hot". For pictures that don't work in small size.
In flickr those are the black and whites but looking at Ipernity that's not a problem here (if you show some nudity:-)
Ofcourse those pictures are hard to put in algoritmes. But this is a way to promote people that don't visit often or don't build up a huge bunch of friends.
good luck on the "what's hot"
Gunnsteinn Jonsson pro replies:
I wrote this blog when I had an overdose of natural drugs after I saw how fast my photo was crawling up the hot site list :) The gold, silver and bronze thing was something I had not thought over :) I just wanted everyone to win an Oscar like me :)
Whats hot does not work the way it is set up now. It is enough for me to comment 100 times on my own photo and I will run up the list. 200 comments and I am sure my photo will get on the front page. I am sure this site will evolve like anything els so I am just going to enjoy the ride :)
Thanks and take care :)
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