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  • 2019-09-27 Newsflash (updated)

    - 27 Sep 2019 - 264 comments
    [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) A few days ago, ipernity was exposed to a massive attack by Russian spam bots, who managed to overcome the Google Captcha authentication. Despite immediate countermeasures, some intruders managed to open accounts from which iper mails with links to pornographic content were sent to members. But at no time was any personal data or private contents compromised by this bot attack . Please delete any messages delivered to your personal address wi…

  • Information für Neumitglieder

    - 15 Sep 2019 - 1 comment
    [EN] Welcome to ipernity [FR] Bienvenue sur ipernity Willkommen bei ipernity dem weltgrößten Online-Fotoclub Als privater Verein betreiben wir diese Webseite für Mitglieder und Gäste. Schön, dass Du zu uns gefunden hast. Weil wir keinen Gewinn machen, sondern nur die Kosten decken müssen, gibt es keine Werbung bei ipernity. Und weil es keine Inverstoren gibt, die Vorgaben machen könnten, bieten wir genau das an, was unsere Nutzer brauchen: Eine Sharing-Plattform n…

  • Information for New Members

    - 15 Sep 2019 - 1 comment
    [FR] Bienvenue sur ipernity [GE) Willkommen bei ipernity Welcome to ipernity The World's Largest Online Photo Club As a private association we run this website for members and guests. We are glad that you have found us. Because we don't have to make any profit, but only cover the costs, there is no advertising on ipernity. And because there are no investors who can set standards, we offer exactly what our users need: A sharing platform tailored to the wishes and n…

  • Informations pour les nouveaux membres

    - 15 Sep 2019
    [EN] Welcome to ipernity [GE] Willkommen bei ipernity Bienvenue sur ipernity le plus grand club photo en ligne du monde En tant qu'association privée, nous gérons ce site web pour les membres et les invités. Nous sommes heureux que vous nous ayez trouvés. Parce que nous ne faisons pas de profit, mais devons seulement couvrir les coûts, il n'y a pas de publicité sur l'ipernity. Et comme aucun investisseur ne peut fixer de normes, nous offrons exactement ce dont nos u…

  • 2019-09-14 Newsflash

    - 14 Sep 2019 - 67 comments
    Alexa Ranking ipernity
    [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) In addition to the language options in the main menu, we have enabled Esperanto for group management again . This allows our Esperanto speaking members to continue editing the descriptions and rules of existing groups. 2) The seed capital for the reprogramming of ipernity has grown gross to 19,740 EUR meanwhile. Of this, 3,389 EUR are donations and 16,351 EUR are bonds from the community. After deducting 700 EUR bank fees, this brings the…

  • 2019-08-30 Newsflash

    - 30 Aug 2019 - 138 comments
    [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The number of new club accounts created in the first 8 months of 2019, now +74, already exceeds the total number of new club accounts created in 2018 (+62). The number of active club accounts even increased by +82 from 1,298 to 1,380 since the beginning of the year. This makes us very optimistic. 2) In addition, members of the VIEW Fotocommunity are currently interested in finding a new home for their photo hobby due to the closure of…

  • 2019-08-16 Newsflash

    - 16 Aug 2019 - 82 comments
    [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The removal of more than 200 abandoned member accounts with group administrator functions, mentioned in the discussion about the last Newsflash, caused many administrations to be automatically reassigned by the ipernity software. If you don't want to take over such a task, you can leave the group and join it again immediately. 2) This action, as well as our offer to reorganize abandoned groups, which has already been claimed more than thirt…

  • 2019-08-13 Malfunction / Dysfonctionnement / Störung

    - 13 Aug 2019 - 64 comments
    [EN] We currently have a server malfunction. For unknown reasons one of the parallel working frontend servers is obviously looking towards an old version of ipernity. We are trying to fix this problem as soon as possible. Your IMA team [FR] Nous avons actuellement un dysfonctionnement d'un serveur. Pour des raisons inconnues, l'un des serveurs frontaux s'exécutant en parallèle fonctionne manifestement sur une ancienne version d'ipernity. Nous essayons de résoudre ce problème…

  • 2019-07-28 Newsflash

    - 28 Jul 2019 - 86 comments
    [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) During the last 6 months our website has been updated in many parts. In addition to all kinds of small bug fixes, the Breaking-News function and the freely adjustable background color have been introduced. The “Terms of Service” have been updated as well as “About ipernity” and “History”. The subscription page has been redesigned, the old FAQ replaced by a completely new version. The geo-localization was migrated to Open-Street-Map, the inte…

  • 2019-07-19 Newsflash: ipernity incident/hiccup/Störung

    - 19 Jul 2019 - 49 comments
    [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity, This morning at 10:09 am the automatic monitoring systems of our website reported a fundamental dysfunction. Many of you have also quickly informed us about this outage. We thank you for that. The problem was that one of the main servers we hosted at the Amazon Web Service unexpectedly stopped. Thanks to the help of Christophe Ruelle, the former director of the ipernity website, normal operation was resumed at 13:05 (CEST). Fortunately, th…

  • 2019-07-05 Newsflash

    - 05 Jul 2019 - 107 comments
    [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! To address questions being raised about Irene Steeves and her groups, I regret to say, we received several complaints about content Irene displayed in her photostream. IMA conducted a thorough investigation, from which the results required account suspension/deletion based on the Terms of Service and Guide of Good Conduct. This action was also taken to protect the best interests of all parties involved and stakeholders. As stewards entrusted to…

  • 2019-06-28 Newsflash

    - 29 Jun 2019 - 94 comments
    [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Lately there has been a proliferation of copyrighted third party content presented as own creation. Please be reminded, the Terms of Service prohibit the use of content that violates copyright protections. To protect the best interests of our website and photographers, IMA reserves the right to delete content found to be in violation of copyright laws with or without prior notice. To avoid this inconvenience or embarrassment we strongly rec…

  • 2019-06-14 Newsflash

    - 24 Jun 2019 - 114 comments
    New ipernity Option / Nouvelle option d'ipernity / Neue ipernity-Option
    [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) For the beginning of summer we have changed the frontpage pictures to the new summer collection . We thank all photographers who provided pictures for this. ☞ To see the Frontpage pictures live, as casual visitors from the web, you need to log out and visit www.ipernity.com again. With [F5] you can scroll through the pictures, with a random order shown. 2) With regard to the database cleanup after August 15, 2019 , we offer…

  • 2019-05-31 Newsflash

    - 31 May 2019 - 91 comments
    [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The final statement of the fundraising for the reprogramming of ipernity is now available. 75 club members and 145 "free" users participated. The sum of the raised capital amounts to 17,114 EUR (57% of 30,000 EUR). Therefore the reprogramming cannot yet be commissioned as planned. 2) Before we consider external funding opportunities, we would like to address those club members who have not participated to date, although they would be econom…

  • 2019-05-17 Newsflash

    - 17 May 2019 - 119 comments
    Paying ipernity users
    [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) On Wednesday our fundraising campaign for the reprogramming finished. Despite the dedicated participation of 75 club members, who contributed the majority of the funds, the result of 16,745 EUR (56%) stayed far below the required amount of 30,000 EUR. The ima team will now discuss how to proceed. 2) Unfortunately, the participation of "free" users was far below expectations. Nevertheless, we would like to thank all those who donated som…

  • 2019-05-03 Newsflash

    - 03 May 2019 - 98 comments
    Dynamic Google Maps API Requests
    [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The display of shooting positions has meanwhile been migrated from GoogleMaps to OpenStreetMap. This map is free of charge and has even better accuracy than GoogleMaps. In contrast to earlier times, the exact address and GPS coordinates are now also displayed. You can copy them directly into other applications, such as Google-Earth. 2) For the GEO-positioning of photos we have to use Google's fee-based service until further notice, because…

  • 2019-04-26 Newsflash

    - 26 Apr 2019 - 185 comments
    [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) We had to shut down parts of the Google map service at short notice, because the costs have increased dramatically. (Google charged EUR 655 more for March than we budgeted for.) We are now working hard to see whether ipernity can be adapted to cheaper alternatives (OpenStreetMap, Evermaps, Opentopomap, etc.). For the time being,only geo-coordinates will be displayed instead of plain text locations in the location information of the images.…

  • 2019-04-19 Newsflash

    - 19 Apr 2019 - 65 comments
    [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) In order to make the payment procedure simpler, Rob has further revised and simplified the subscription page . 2) The new FAQ is now also available online in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. The Dutch version is still under development. Use the Help & Contact link in the footer. 3) With the help of our IT service provider Qwellcode, we have succeeded in removing the dormant contents of long deleted accounts fr…

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