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One week ago I uploaded my first picture here on ipernity. It had the number 107381, my last picture I uploaded a few minutes ago, has the number 194863. S the number doubled in just a week. That sounds good!

Nearly the same if you look at 'Lea ipernity's' contacts. Now she has 5670 contacts, last week it was about 2000 less. So more and more flickr user come here. But the number of them I know, is almost constant now, but maybe that's clear, my German contacts are all here, the rest is maybe not so motivated to move.

A look at the number of blog posts reveals the same result as a few days ago: 663 about flickr, 650 about ipernity. flickr's shadow is long...

Personally, I think, I had a good start here. Having the low overall number of users in mind, nearly hundred people call me a contact. Thanks to all of you, my friends.

And I really appreciate all your visits, comments and votes. You are much more active, than on flickr (but still the overall hugh user number overthere leads to much more total response...). I think, that's mostly originated in the stronger networking component here on ipernity. You're much more aware of what's going on in your network and the comment reply function leads to more direct communication and interaction. At least for me, the motivation to answer comments is much higher, cause I know the other one will be informed about it. On flickr it's much harder to establish at least short dialogs with other members.

That's something I really like and leads to a genuine ipernity experience, something different from flickr. It's like having a large family or living in a small village, where you always know what's going on in the neighborhood.

So I think ipernity has good chances of a flowering future. Let's see what happens