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Ja, gerade mal reingeschneit... Ein Impuls, weil ich gestern von einem alten Ipernity-Freund (Sternenstaub) gefragt wurde, ob mir Instagram besser gefällt. Das konnte ich nicht beantworten, weil das alte Gefühl nicht mehr da war, Instagram aber einen ganz anderen Ansatz verfolgt und allein deshalb Spass bringt.

[EN] You can finally share your private content outside ipernity with people who do not have an account on ipernity! By private we are referring to content you do not share on ipernity or only with your friends and family. This affects all your content: photos, videos, docs, articles and albums! To share one of your private content, simply click on the new sharing button (see screenshots). We then generate a special link to access your content that you can give out to your guests vi…

We are "social media nomads", not like those who are travelling around the world and keeping their personal blog or vlog about it, but folks who try to survive in the jungle of social media services. We try to find best and cheapest place to share our creativity and hunger for inspiration. And what makes us as nomads is the fact that nothing seems to continue forever, especially not the social media services. Who remembers such communities as Multiply and My Opera? Who will soon remember Pan…

15.08.2017 : Man muss sich sputen mit der Terminplanung, auch wenn's noch 9 Monate hin ist. Rundherum schlagen schon wieder Termine für tolle Fototreffen ein. Hamburg findet natürlich 2018 auch wieder statt, alternativ am WE vor oder am WE nach dem 1 Mai (den man aber vielleicht auch noch einbauen kann). Programmideen gibt es schon, dazu werde ich mich in den kommenden Monaten mit Klaus und Volker beraten. Tragt euch vorsorglich schon mal ein, wenn ihr wieder dabei sein wollt. Den Doodle d…

Ja, ja, der Steinmeier hat den Stein der Weisen gefunden: „Wenn ein demokratisch gefestigtes Land wie Deutschland sich nicht mehr in der Lage sieht, internationale Gäste einzuladen, Konferenzen wie diese auszurichten, dann gerät mehr in Gefahr als nur eine einzelne Konferenz. Dann überlassen wir im Grunde genommen die Entscheidung und die Auswahl, was hier in Deutschland stattfindet, einigen wenigen brutalen Gewalttätern.“ Es gehöre auch demokratisches Selbstbewusstsein dazu, „dass wir sagen:…

Update posted by William Sutherland for 27 April 2017: Mr. Christophe Ruelle signed off on the letter of intent confirming his acceptance of IMA's proposal. A copy of this document can be found on the IMA website at: ipernityma.wixsite.com/ipernityma/formal-proposal ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Official from Christophe, all we are waiting for now is signed papers ... www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4659568 Blog post c2030 BST on 26th April 2017 ... 24 hours later - E2A - unfortunat…

I finally downloaded most of my old pictures from My Opera. Now I will start to upload some of them here in sets of few pictures that are somehow related. The very first set is about pictures where I asked: "Guess what?" This is very popular challenge around photography communities, to take pictures of items from an angle that does make the challenge of guessing more or less difficult.

[EN] Hello to you all, What is going on in ipernity ? We are patiently waiting for IMA to makes their proposal. Once it will be set, the negotiations will get started. They have officially registered the association to the French office. They are waiting for the paper to come back. If you do not have seen it yet, they published their Bylaws : ipernityma.wixsite.com/ipernityma/bylaws (English) ipernityma.wixsite.com/ipernityma/copy-of-bylaws (French) ipernityma.wixsite.c…

Please join the 4,996,000 people around the world who have already signed this petition! The goal is 5 million signatures. Here is the text: "With the Muslim ban, Trump has shown that the worst fears about his Presidency are true. Add your voice to the open letter below to join the resistance — then spread it far and wide: ---- Dear Mr. Trump, This is not what greatness looks like. The world rejects your fear, hate-mongering, and bigotry. We reject your support for tor…

The IMA have launched CROWDFUNDING ... www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/ipernity-members-association-a-non-profit-entity With a target of $25,000 in "two weeks" - this is to secure the platform whilst the takeover project is planned and achieved. March 2017 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Things have moved on ..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ADDED - new article from Team Ipernity - 10th January 2017 www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4646844 "New Perspectives" quote snipped…

last edit 16. feb. If you are interested, what's happening just now in the former (at least semi-) democratic US, then read this. It's a very clear description of the processes started by the new president and the future we have to expect. I will post further interesting links in the future. medium.com/@yonatanzunger/trial-balloon-for-a-coup-e024990891d5#.58sd40xh2 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-refugee-ban-fires-attorney-general-sally-yates-department-of-just…

In his A History of the English-Speaking Peoples , Winston Churchill wrote: Every nation or group of nations has its own tale to tell. Knowledge of the trials and struggles is necessary to all who would comprehend the problems, perils, challenges, and opportunities which confront us today... It is in the hope that contemplation of the trials and tribulations of our forefathers may not only fortify the English-speaking peoples of today, but also play some small part in uniting the whole wor…

Hi to you all ! We corrected a little thing in the METALINK process to help you to download your albums. The best way to do it is to use FIREFOX (you can temporarily install it) and the addons : DownThemAll! (infortunately it doesn't work anymore on Chrome) *the addons works with the SeaMonkeys suite too Once, the addons is installed please go to your albums section > Open an album > Click on Tool > Download entire album Then click on "Retrieve the download file" A window will…

[EN] Hello to you all, We address this message to people who are participating in an aspiration through the ArchiveTeam tool. We ask you to please limit your queries to 10/s max. We are currently receiving an abnormal influx of queries that is hurting the platform .... Not to mention the cost that AWS will induce ... We are not against this but we ask you to contact us before launching such an initiative ... via the Help & Contact section. Thank you for your…

Was macht man nach 9 Jahren ipernity? Ich wollte gerade meinen Clubaccount ein weiteres Mal um 24 Monate verlängern, und sehe nun, dass nur noch die Wahl zwischen 3 oder 3 Monaten (mit einem kleinen Rabatt, dann nehme ich doch die drei Monate?!?) besteht, wundere mich, und lese dann im Teamblog die ätzenden Nachrichten.

Dear friendly people of ipernity, What's going on right now ? the head of the team is negotiating with several potential buyers. One seems to be really serious. But nothing is done. What am I doing ? I'm actually reading all your comments (hundreds...) on the latest articles and collecting informations/data on your feelings, ideas, support etc.. thus, to use it to make a "at the moment" state of ipernity. (We may share a survey poll soon) Which means I have fewer time to reply to the su…

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Hello all! We have just proceeded to an update of the site. Here is what's new and improved. Privacy reinforcement on dates of births You can now display the day and month of your birthday and at the same time hide your age and year of birth. To edit these settings go on: www.ipernity.com/pref/privacy Adding content to groups and albums have been greatly simplified Simply go ahead and test these functions "add to a group" and "add to an albu…

Ich habe mich mal kurzzeitig mit einem zweiten Account angemeldet um die Unterschiede zwischen Club und Nichtclub zu testen und bin auf ein absolutes NO GO gestossen :-( Es wird zwar kräftigst bemängelt, dass Nichtclub-Mitglieder ihre eigenen Fotos nicht mehr runterladen können, aber dafür dürfen sie sich bei jedem Clubmitglied bedienen. ( I ch muss meine eigenen Fotos nicht runterladen. Die sind eh zu klein und die Originalgrössen, befinden sich auf meinen Festplatten )…