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April 12, 2008

10000+ visits

10.000+ visits - just a number but still: thanks to everyone who has shown some interest in my pictures or posts (or both).

I'm really glad that I have the opportunity to share some of my ideas and "art" here.
I'm just as glad to get to see your works - as inspiration as well as for pure enjoyment. I have found there are many really extremely talented people around at Ipernity and I am always curious to see what I will stumble upon next.

Therefore: everyone, keep up your great work and if you feel like it pay me a visit once in a while.

Published at 12:28 / 10 comments / 514 visits
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April 14, 2008

Group Administration Function Needs An Overhaul - Urgently

Recently I was surprised to find a notification in my Ipernity Mailbox saying I had been granted administrative privileges for one of the groups I was a member of.
Weird. Even weirder it was a group I wasn't really that active in.

Still wondering about this I was surprised again by my mailbox. I found half a dozen messages informing me about new members to that specific group.
I deleted them for reasons of rather low level of importance to me only to find another few after doing so.

I decided to check what responsibilities arose from the administrator position.

I realised that I could turn off such notifications but generally I didn't feel like being an administrator for that specific group at all.
So I went looking for how to de-administrate myself.
First thing I found was that apart from me the group had like 30 more administrators. Surprising.
I assume most of them must have been as surprised as myself when they got to know about their new position.

The problem is: anyone with administrative privileges in a group seems to be able to promote any member to be an administrator as well - without the consent of that specific person.

The next problem is: you cannot renounce your status as administrator - at least as far as I found. Please correct me if I am wrong here.
The only way to get rid of that position I found was to quit the group (while keeping my documents in it) and then rejoin it as a regular member. The administrator status does not seem to remain through that process.

I therefore urgently ask the Ipernity Team to overhaul the Group Administration function to at least include the following:

  • need for a group member to ratify his promotion to an administrator
  • option to dismiss one's administrator status - for my sake only if there is another administrator available

Otherwise joining a group could easily lead to a responsibility you did not choose.

Considering the recent departure of members here at Ipernity and the mentioning of group administration as (at least) a collateral damage I think this may be considered urgent.

Published at 11:20 / 6 comments / 482 visits
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April 22, 2008

A Sunday At Britzer Garden

To break with my usual habit of posting kind of "incoherent" pictures - a "problem" I will address in another post - I just uploaded a package of 51 "themed" shots from a Sunday's walk in a public park on the outskirts of Berlin - the "Britzer Garden".

They also sort of break with my usual "style" of geometric and technical motives since they are all of a very natural quality - in a literal sense. :)

I do hope that this massive bombardment does not result in annoyance or disinterest.
So consider this a "test" of your power of concentration. ;)

I might also reorder the pictures in the respective album contrary to the date-ordered state in the photostream to create some sort of dramaturgy.

Hopefully you will like some of the shots and maybe they are able to convey a sort of spring fever.

P.S.: If you feel like tagging some of the pictures, I'd be glad for the help :)
P.P.S.: Thank you, Josie!!

Published at 13:50 / 1 comment / 543 visits
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