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I hope people behind Ipernity won't be mad at me for revealing some secrets of the website.

Users at Ipernity are identified either by their nicknames or internally by numbers.

It is not very difficult to find out that #1 at Ipernity is our hero Christophe Ruelle. #100 is also special because the name of the account is... Ipernity. Apparently developers restricted or blocked IDs 2 through 9999 and the next active account is #10000 and it belongs to a close relative of our dear Christophe, it seems.

Account #10002 is a bit special because of the person to whom it seemingly belongs Sergey Brin. If you don't know (almost impossible) who he is look it up in Wikipedia - Sergey Brin.

Larry Page hasn't got an account on Ipernity yet (shame on you Larry ).

The last active account when I checked was the account number #22316 (a person from Lyon).

Update (Aug 16, 2007): The most current account ID number is 22472.

That tells us there are about 12,400 open user accounts on Ipernity, but please bear in mind that there are thousands of accounts that are completely inactive (no docs, blog posts etc).

Update (Sept 7, 2007) The most current account ID number is #24186 =~ 14,100 open user accounts.

It would be a good thing to have a means to flag and then easily find out docs uploaded as original creations of Ipernity users and which have been created by someone else and only uploaded for others to appreciate (or some other reason).

Almost all photos are taken by the original uploader  but it is usually not the case with other docs.

For the time being the best solution would be in my opinion to tag docs with the "original woa" tag (for original work of art).

What's your opinion?

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