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[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…

[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…

[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…

[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…

[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…

[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…

[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…

Currently on ipernity 'Photos' pages the following notice is shown on right margin: "It is recommended to have GPS data in the meta data (EXIF) of the images before the initial upload." The reason why this recommendation is given is that the Google Maps quota may become exceeded easily if many users search and use it get geolocation for already uploaded images. To avoid this it would help if more people would start to define geolocation before uploading the images. How to do that d…

[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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Manifeste pour la reprogrammation d'ipernity ./. Manifest zur Neuprogrammierung von ipernity ./. As we all know, it is imperative to have the ipernity website reprogrammed from scratch as soon as possible. The necessary adaptations of this website that is ten years old, both in conception and technology, to be technically up to date are getting more and more difficult and expensive. This reprogramming does not focus on changing functionality or design, but on improving the technical basis in order to reduce costs and improve operational reliability. In view of increasing security requirements, the website must also be SSL-encrypted as quickly as possible. In view of changing user habits, it must be better adapted to mobile devices. Of course, the opportunity can also be used to consider long-cherished wishes if they are affordable.

[DE] Software-Update-Strategie ./. [FR] Stratégie de mise à jour du logiciel ./. Today we would like to present you a concept for the increasingly urgent upgrading of ipernity to the state of the art. This is combined with the long announced transition offer to free users. It is valid from today for three months, i.e. until 15 May 2019. Dear members and friends of ipernity! Over the past 12 months, our community has spent around 22,000 EUR on maintaining and updating our w…

Dear friends, a number of you have asked about the disasters in Australia just now. Thanks Udo, Jose and others. Presently the Tropical North East of Australia has unprecedented floods, with the area around Townsville having more than its whole annual rainfall in a week. Housesare inundated,water is waist deep. Meanwhile, in the south 3000 kilometres away, the UNESCO listed biospheres of Gondwanan forests are threatened by dozens of fires caused by lightning strikes, many of which have been…

Almost. The News: Maduro set a deadline of 7 days for the European Union and Spain to accept the independence of Catalonia! Putin set a deadline of 14 days for the US to accept Nancy Pelosi as interim president and arrange new elections (because Trump was not elected democratically and had less votes as his opponent)! Trump set a deadline of 30 days for Brasil to hold new elections, because the current president Bolsonaro is an undemocratic criminal (threatens with annihilation of minori…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) To date, 213 users have renewed their subscriptions early. As a result, the liquidity of the community has increased by 8,797 EUR. Unfortunately, it is not about additional income, but only about temporal shifts. Due to the associated losses in the exchange rate adjustments, even 374 EUR less will come into the cash register. 2) As of today, the adjusted contributions to costs will come into force. We would like to point out again that the…

Back in 2009 (only ten years ago as I write this) I had a "fold-up" mobile phone. I bought it to make telephone calls - the obvious reason. Then I found that I could also send text messages and that it had "predictive text" (which almost invariably produced results that were risible). It also had a built in camera. There is an old photographic saying that "the best camera is the one you have with you". That's true enough, if the alternative is no photo at all and, clearly, the phone mak…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) We would like to inform you that in the meantime 4 donations have already been received via the donate button, which was set up on the login page in December. The sum of the donations is 210 EUR. 2) The response to our advice to extend your subscriptions before the planned adjustment of contributions to the changed exchange rates is far above expectations. 124 club members have already made use of this option. We thank you for this great vo…

[English] www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4715932 [Français] www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4715938 Bericht der Berater Frohes neues Jahr! Liebe Mitglieder und Freunde von ipernity! Im Dezember vor zwei Jahren erreichte uns die Hiobsbotschaft, dass die "Ewigkeit" von ipernity nach nur 10 Betriebsjahren zu Ende sein solle. Heute gibt es ipernity immer noch - dank eures Engagements und eurer Treue, sowie des großen Einsatzes einiger Ehrenamtlicher, die als ima-Team für iper…

[Deutsch] www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4715936 [Français] www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4715938 Report of the advisors Happy New Year! Dear members and friends of ipernity! In December two years ago we received the bad news that the "eternity" of ipernity should be over after only 10 years of operation. Today, ipernity still exists - thanks to your commitment and loyalty, as well as the great commitment of some volunteers who are active as ima-Team for ipernity. As consul…

Lately I have given a great deal of time and thought for what is commonly called as "street photography". It is more or less a genre of taking images of people one does not know. Usually it is about images of people in urbain area, but it can be any human figure seen anywhere. Please have a look at this Jamie Windsor's video 'Why you SHOULDN'T do STREET PHOTOGRAPHY' and give it a thought. So far street photography that includes human figures have never been my genre, and I guess it…