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Dear members and friends of ipernity, Seasons may change, but we're still here because of you! 1) Server overload fixed. Our recent server overload issue was quickly fixed with the help of our outside IT support, IT Assurance. A new scraper had found a way to use our website. Rob is working to learn from this event how to fix any new issues such as this without needing to use the outside support. We continue to keep a vigilant eye on our system. We had learned from ou…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) World Photography Day. This year a lovely group of 72 people participated in our all ipernity event. If you don't already know, all 72 of us took photos on the same day around the world. Now that's one dedicated group of photographers! The variation this year was asking along with a photograph, names of photographers that are admired or that inspire. These names create a wonderful list. Both famous photographers as well as…

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World Photography Day is an annual, worldwide celebration of the art, craft, science and history of photography. This is the 6th year that our club's World Photography Day group will honor the day and we will be accepting photographs taken on Wednesday, August 19th, 2026. Each photographer may submit one photo. Last year we had record 81 participants! Can we get more this year? Tell your friends! Submissions will be accepted through the end of August to allow time for editin…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) The Good News. Slow but determined work gets the job done. We can report that the download to pc, and the creation/change of icon and banner for a user's home page, and for groups, are again working. And that the AI driven content scrapers causing the overload have finally been blocked, (mm/dd below). 2) Progress on our server issues. Please read all of the below carefully The Story Back in April our servers began being…

Work on the Website is scheduled for the following days/times: Friday, May 22 17:00 - 20:00 UTC - COMPLETED Wednesday, May 27 Beginning 14:00 UTC - COMPLETED Thursday, May 28 - COMPLETED Friday, May 29 - COMPLETED ADDITIONAL DAY: Monday, June 1 This is being done to help us investigate solutions to our current issues including: SERVER OVERLOADS DOWNLOAD FAILURES GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL BANNER & ICON UPDATES NOT WORKING ---------------------------------------------…

Gruppen auf Ipernity – Groups on Ipernity – Groupes sur Ipernity Ein kurzer Hinweis, weil sich bestimmte Dinge hier wiederholen: Wenn du Admin einer Gruppe bist und mich einlädst, ist das völlig in Ordnung. Ich freue mich. Ich sehe mir die Gruppe an und entscheide dann, ob sie zu meinen Inhalten passt. Ich respektiere ausdrücklich Gruppen mit klarer Ausrichtung – auch solche, die z. B. keine KI-Bilder möchten oder bewusst streng kuratiert sind. Das ist legitim und sinnvoll. Was…

I submit the following addition (in red) to 3.4c of our Terms of Use: ...; contents prohibited by law or infringing rights of third parties; contents presenting people in a probably non-consensual voyeuristic manner that is degrading (obscuring their identity does not make it allowable); violation of the authority... A new line item 3.5 to be inserted, while existing 3.5 and 3.6 are renumbered. 3.5 Depending on the severity of any violation, the number of violations, or the repetition o…

The IGA 2026 will take place on Sunday, 22nd March 2026, 5pm Paris (16:00 UTC). Please check the correct time in your country, perhaps with this Your time zone ============================================================ We encourage all full club members to attend. ▶️ Follow this link to the sign up procedure . The verification of your identity is only necessary, if you are participating for the first time. Otherwise, we only require an ipermail to ima moderator in…

Hey, Karma gibt's nicht, Blödmann Oder: Warum das Universum sich nicht für deinen LinkedIn-Beef interessiert Du wartest. Nicht auf den Bus. Nicht auf die Pizza. Nicht auf bessere Zeiten. Du wartest auf Karma. Darauf, dass das Universum eingreift. Dass jemand „da oben" sieht, was dir angetan wurde. Dass die Person, die dich verletzt hat, endlich ihre Quittung bekommt. Spoiler: Es passiert nichts. Nicht, weil du Unrecht hast. Sondern weil das Universum kein Interesse daran hat. D…

www.ardmediathek.de/video/tiere-suchen-ein-zuhause/andrea-sawatzki-rumaeniens-vergessene-hunde/wdr/Y3JpZDovL3dkci5kZS9CZWl0cmFnLXNvcGhvcmEtODBmZWNkZjktMTU2My00ZWJhLTkwZTAtN2VmZmIzNmMwM2Y4?fbclid=IwdGRzaAPSA9JjbGNrA9IDwWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHuq9REyvPJ03V0hJGwKuGjtj6m6hDgO7O0i7m_JsLWjU3KUdG4L8YZuf7RR5_aem_Nt4LeqsasKTeLPw62_lKRw&sfnsn=scwspwa Andrea Sawatzki ist nicht nur eine sehr sympathische Frau und Schauspielerin. Sie ist auch eine sehr engagierte Tierschützer…

Nachdem ich nun meinen Vorsatz, ein paar Ruhetage einzulegen, nicht einhalten konnte und diverse Urlaubsbilder aus früheren Zeiten aufbereitet habe, scheint es mir wichtig, über meine Erkenntnisse aus dieser Arbeit zu schreiben. Erkannt habe ich vieles über mich und die Aufnahmen, die ich gemacht habe in diesen Jahren und überhaupt.: Ich möchte nach Möglichkeit das fotografieren, was ich gerade sehe, ohne irgendwelche Verfälschungen, d.h., auch die dazugehörige Stimmung, die ich im Moment da…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Interruptions to our website. As many of you know, we have been suffering recently from slow response times to actual failure to load a page. When this happens to you, please be patient and wait a minute or two before trying to refresh the page, because the site is not offline, just overloaded. This is due to high demand on our system from outside. This has also been causing other types of issues including interruption of daily news emails an…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Summary of the General Assembly of Members. We thank all of you who attended the online meeting. To summarise, the meeting went well, and the board for the coming year was elected. Of particular note is the exciting news that we now have a Vice President whose position will support promoting ipernity along with other tasks. We welcome Andreas Schindler Arlequin Photographie to the position and look forward to their support. That said, it…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, ============================ For those of you still having problems: If trying to add a new photo to a group, and there is no drop-down list, the first thing to try is the Ctrl+F5 to Refresh. See paragraph below for more about refreshing. If that does not solve the problem, you can try closing and restarting your browser . We do not expect to be able to allow the apps (iPhone or Android) to upload photos. But this is possible with either the…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Summary of the General Assembly of Members. We thank all of you who attended the online meeting. Please refer to the separate article: 2024 IGA Report . We have a plan to simplify the voting process, without the need for emails with links to each PollUnit, while still having a secure voting system. 2) Meeting in the real world. Last weekend, numerous ipernity members went to Hamburg to meet face to face. See Hamburg 2024 group . With…

1) Ipernity General Assembly (IGA 2024) will take place Sunday, April 7th, 2024. For registered attendees only, (the deadline to participate was April 3rd), the following documents will be made available at least 24 hours in advance: ● Annual Financial Statement 2023 ● IGA 2024 - Treasurer's Report on 2023 ● IGA 2024 - Report of the President on 2023 ● IGA 2024 - Motions to Agenda item 11 (Miscellaneous) Please read these documents before the meeting to save time. Make a…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) One month until IGA. Sign up by April 3rd in order to attend. Our annual membership meeting will be held online on Sunday April 7th 2024, 5pm [Correction: 6pm] Paris (16:00 UTC) . Please see Sign-Up Procedure for IGA . For anyone who has not attended previously, a look at the IGA group will give you an idea of how the meeting is conducted online. There are two mandates open for election. 2) Meeting in the real world. We are inde…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, Last Saturday, March 25th, 2023 the Ipernity General Assembly 2023 took place. The previous Board of our Association was discharged for its activities in 2022. The following links provide information on the course of the Assembly and the results: ● Agenda of the 2023 IGA ● Participants in the 2023 IGA ● President's report on 2022 ● Treasurer's report on 2022 ● Annual financial report for 2022 ● Minutes of the 2023 IGA…

1) It's spring now! Seasonally fitting, we now welcome all visitors to our website with the spring pictures you provided. Thank you for your support! You can watch all the current spring pictures as a slideshow on YouTube . 2) Positive news - We are keeping the membership contributions stable. Last year, the expenses for the servers we rent from Amazon Web Service (AWS) increased. (We will provide you with exact figures at the IGA.) Nevertheless, the ima team has agreed not to incr…