[EN] Dear friends,
2016 is a special year because - some will surely remember - in less than four months ipernity will celebrate its 10th anniversary !
The first ipernity Beta version was launched on May 15, 2006 and it was one of the rarest place - perhaps the first - which proposed the sharing of any type of content (photo / audio / video / file / ...) with relatives and archiving your data on long term.
Originally, ipernity was not designed to share pictures only, but as a shared hard disk and with few social functions whose contents could eventually be passed on to future generations.
Gradually, around the project, a team of talented people was formed, and also many users have contributed to improve the service. The support of many people around the world have maintained our motivation and also allowed the translation of ipernity in 16 languages.
We would like to thank them and to honor them.
Thanks to the tremendous support, ipernity even received the award for best website's photo sharing service from mashable.com in 2008. The price has not represented for us a reward for work, but an encouragement to continue our efforts, as it has never been secret that ipernity was operated by a very small team (8 people), almost as a family business, when our competitors possessed armies of engineers.
It was probably a fight lost in advance, but we wanted to go all the way.
Between 2009 and 2011, we had the privilege of perceiving investment and we were able to recruit new talent. These resources have been used to carry out several important projects and lead to a complete overhaul of the website which was launched in 2013.
Let us not use mince words, this project has been exhausting for our small team, while being crucial for the success of this venture.
These efforts have paid off. Between 2013 and 2014, we saw our audience grow and especially the membership club explode.
For a moment, we hoped for a financial stability.
We didn’t succeed.
And like any business that cannot balance its books, between 2014 and 2015, we had to take the painful decision to drastically reduce our expenses .
Between 2009 and 2011, we had the privilege of perceiving investment and we were able to recruit new talent. These resources have been used to carry out several important projects and lead to a complete overhaul of the website which was launched in 2013.
Let us not use mince words, this project has been exhausting for our small team, while being crucial for the success of this venture.
These efforts have paid off. Between 2013 and 2014, we saw our audience grow and especially the membership club explode.
For a moment, we hoped for a financial stability.
We didn’t succeed.
And like any business that cannot balance its books, between 2014 and 2015, we had to take the painful decision to drastically reduce our expenses .
ipernity is now almost saved, but its future remains uncertain. The service will remain maintained "as-is" because our resources are very limited today. We do our best to solve the most urgent problems in the measurement of very small capacity of our technical team. In all cases, and if we were to one day make the decision to close the service, this would be announced several months in advance and accompanied by the tools and means to help everyone to backup its contents.
We admit this possibility. But, at the moment, we stay optimistic : ipernity is now almost reaching a financial stability and its user community has remained faithful. It is our duty to keep this adventure continuing as long as possible.
We admit this possibility. But, at the moment, we stay optimistic : ipernity is now almost reaching a financial stability and its user community has remained faithful. It is our duty to keep this adventure continuing as long as possible.
We wish you to you all our best wishes for 2016, a year we place under the sign of optimism !
Thanks
The ipernity TEAM
* UPTIME 3535 : number of days from which the service has been launched.
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[FR] Chers amis,
2016 est une année spéciale, car - certains s’en souviennent sûrement - dans moins de 4 mois ipernity fêtera ses 10 ans !
La première Beta d’ipernity a ouvert ses portes le 15 mai 2006 et se présentait comme un des rares services - peut-être le premier - qui proposait le partage de n’importe quel type de contenu (photo/audio/video/fichier/…) avec ses proches et l’archivage de ses données sur le long terme.
ipernity n’a donc pas été initialement conçu pour partager des photos, mais comme un disque dur partagé et doté de quelques fonctions sociales dont le contenu pourrait à terme être transmis aux générations futures.
Peu à peu s’est constituée autour du projet une équipe de personnes talentueuses, et aussi de nombreux utilisateurs qui ont largement contribué à faire évoluer le service. Ce soutien de nombreuses personnes à travers le monde a entretenu notre motivation et a aussi permis la traduction d’ipernity en 16 langues. Nous tenons à les remercier et à leur rendre hommage.
Grace à ce formidable soutien, ipernity a même reçu le prix du meilleur service de partage photo du site mashable.com en 2008. Ce prix n’a pas représenté pour nous une récompense pour le travail accompli, mais un encouragement à continuer nos efforts, car il n’a jamais été secret qu’ipernity était opéré par une très petite équipe (8 personnes), presque de façon familiale, quand nos concurrents disposaient d’armées d’ingénieurs.
C’était un combat probablement perdu d’avance, mais nous avons tenu à aller jusqu’au bout.
Entre 2009 et 2011 nous avons eu le privilège de recevoir de l’investissement et avons pu recruter de nouveaux talents. Ces moyens ont été employés pour mener plusieurs chantiers importants et aboutir à une refonte totale du service qui a vu le jour en 2013.
N’ayons pas peur de le dire, ce chantier a été épuisant pour notre petite équipe, tout en étant crucial pour la réussite de cette aventure.
Ces efforts ont été payants puisqu’entre 2013 et 2014 nous avons vu notre audience croître et surtout le nombre de membres Club exploser. Nous avons un moment espéré pouvoir atteindre l’équilibre financier.
Nous n’y sommes pas arrivés.
Et comme toute entreprise qui n’arrive pas à équilibrer ses comptes, nous avons dû prendre entre 2014 et 2015 la douloureuse décision de réduire drastiquement nos dépenses.
ipernity est aujourd’hui presque sauvé, mais son avenir reste incertain. Le service restera maintenu « en l’état » étant donné que nos moyens sont aujourd’hui très limités. Nous ferons notre possible pour régler les problèmes les plus urgents, dans la mesure des capacités très réduites de notre équipe technique. Dans tous les cas, et si nous devions un jour prendre la décision de fermer le service, ceci serait annoncé plusieurs mois à l’avance et accompagné des outils et des moyens nécessaires pour permettre à chacun de récupérer ses contenus.
Nous admettons cette éventualité, mais pour le moment nous restons optimistes : ipernity est à présent presque à l’équilibre financier et sa communauté d’utilisateurs est restée fidèle. Il est de notre devoir de faire que cette aventure continue aussi longtemps que possible.
La première Beta d’ipernity a ouvert ses portes le 15 mai 2006 et se présentait comme un des rares services - peut-être le premier - qui proposait le partage de n’importe quel type de contenu (photo/audio/video/fichier/…) avec ses proches et l’archivage de ses données sur le long terme.
ipernity n’a donc pas été initialement conçu pour partager des photos, mais comme un disque dur partagé et doté de quelques fonctions sociales dont le contenu pourrait à terme être transmis aux générations futures.
Peu à peu s’est constituée autour du projet une équipe de personnes talentueuses, et aussi de nombreux utilisateurs qui ont largement contribué à faire évoluer le service. Ce soutien de nombreuses personnes à travers le monde a entretenu notre motivation et a aussi permis la traduction d’ipernity en 16 langues. Nous tenons à les remercier et à leur rendre hommage.
Grace à ce formidable soutien, ipernity a même reçu le prix du meilleur service de partage photo du site mashable.com en 2008. Ce prix n’a pas représenté pour nous une récompense pour le travail accompli, mais un encouragement à continuer nos efforts, car il n’a jamais été secret qu’ipernity était opéré par une très petite équipe (8 personnes), presque de façon familiale, quand nos concurrents disposaient d’armées d’ingénieurs.
C’était un combat probablement perdu d’avance, mais nous avons tenu à aller jusqu’au bout.
Entre 2009 et 2011 nous avons eu le privilège de recevoir de l’investissement et avons pu recruter de nouveaux talents. Ces moyens ont été employés pour mener plusieurs chantiers importants et aboutir à une refonte totale du service qui a vu le jour en 2013.
N’ayons pas peur de le dire, ce chantier a été épuisant pour notre petite équipe, tout en étant crucial pour la réussite de cette aventure.
Ces efforts ont été payants puisqu’entre 2013 et 2014 nous avons vu notre audience croître et surtout le nombre de membres Club exploser. Nous avons un moment espéré pouvoir atteindre l’équilibre financier.
Nous n’y sommes pas arrivés.
Et comme toute entreprise qui n’arrive pas à équilibrer ses comptes, nous avons dû prendre entre 2014 et 2015 la douloureuse décision de réduire drastiquement nos dépenses.
ipernity est aujourd’hui presque sauvé, mais son avenir reste incertain. Le service restera maintenu « en l’état » étant donné que nos moyens sont aujourd’hui très limités. Nous ferons notre possible pour régler les problèmes les plus urgents, dans la mesure des capacités très réduites de notre équipe technique. Dans tous les cas, et si nous devions un jour prendre la décision de fermer le service, ceci serait annoncé plusieurs mois à l’avance et accompagné des outils et des moyens nécessaires pour permettre à chacun de récupérer ses contenus.
Nous admettons cette éventualité, mais pour le moment nous restons optimistes : ipernity est à présent presque à l’équilibre financier et sa communauté d’utilisateurs est restée fidèle. Il est de notre devoir de faire que cette aventure continue aussi longtemps que possible.
Nous vous souhaitons, à toutes et à tous,
nos meilleurs voeux pour 2016,
une année que nous plaçons sous le signe de l’optimisme.
nos meilleurs voeux pour 2016,
une année que nous plaçons sous le signe de l’optimisme.
Merci.
L'équipe ipernity
* : UPTIME 3535 : Nombre de jours depuis lequel le service est opérationnel.
Yes, spacemouses has a good suggestion regarding upping the yearly fee, every little helps they say
Belated Happy New Year Ipernity.
John.
Edit: Thank you for being honest to us.
Stormlizard club has replied to LightmancerThere are a lot of things I wonder. I know a lot of people who came over in the wave of flickr refugees in 2013 were driven off over the next six months over that dumb comment code war, and I wonder if that cost you a windfall. I know of others who left or severely curtailed their activity after a few unfortunate bouts of content censorship. But I also wonder whether a service like this is simply never going to be financially viable in the long term. For what it's worth, I'd be willing to pay more, if that's what it would take. I appreciate the update, though, and wish you well.
Treasa Ui Cionaodha has replied to Clintslgwv has replied to Treasa Ui CionaodhaMany congratulations on the 10th Anniversary of this site.
Very mixed news in your article, but based on my hope for a good future, I have already renewed my "Club Membership" and I'm trying to encourage a few friends to join.
I have been here since May 2013 and much prefer this site, as it is, to the alternatives.
Please keep on keeping on ...
StoneRoad
- No problem with the present service-level
- Would hate it to go elsewhere
Hope sincerely Ipernity will survive and wishing you and all the members at least 3535 more days !!!
Pam J club has replied to Jaap van 't Veen clubTOTALLY agree !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Richard Nuttall club has replied to Jaap van 't Veen clubTreasa Ui Cionaodha has replied to Jaap van 't Veen clubLolita P. B. has replied to Pam J clubDavid Michael has replied to Jaap van 't Veen clubHaving jumped ship from Flickr when it lost the plot, I would hate to have to move all my photos again.
Here's to the next 10 years!
And now that I know there is some possible future, I even consider giving gifts ;-)
www.ipernity.com/club/gift/network
Happy 10th anniversary! =D
Your service is very good and you and some supporters are doing really a great job.
And it are the open words and feedback from you that gives at the end a trust into your site for all.
I can only repeat what the people write - it's worth to help ipernity to survive in todays landscape of photo sites !
Treasa Ui Cionaodha has replied to M♥rJ Photogr♥phy !!…This place has been a real boon for me. The people I have met have been amazing. The site is GREAT !
I would be also prepared to pay a little more if it would make for a stable base for you to consolidate.
I have no problem with the service either !
Just one thing... I would like the crap advertisers removed by the Moderators... and I would like the Moderators to address the Notify concerns.
But that is it.... the rest.. I personally have no problem with and WISH YOU WELL
I wish US well !
Treasa Ui Cionaodha has replied to Pam J clubJe dois dire que près d'un document sur deux est destiné à la publicité et provient de comptes non payants créés uniquement dans ce but. J'imagine que traiter cette masse d'informations a un coût non négligeable alors qu'un support gratuit est un régal pour les annonceurs.
Quand on parle d'afflux considérable, je serais quand même curieux de connaître le nombre exact de contributeurs payants. Pour ma part, je n'imagine pas que nous soyons plus de 5000.
Ce qui donne 200 000 € : évidemment insuffisant, ne serait-ce que pour payer 8 personnes.
Publier un bilan comptable pourrait effectivement nous aider à prendre une décision au moment du renouvellement de l'abonnement .
J'ai déjà vécu la mort d'un site intéressant et ça me chagrinerait que la même chose arrive ici. Pourtant c'est bien de cela qu'il s'agit quand on sait lire entre les lignes du message du staff.
Bonne année payante à tous !
Lolita P. B. has replied to Sylvain WiartAlors longue Vie à Ipernity...!
Et merci pour les traductions en Esperanto...!
Dankon.
Danilo.
I too hope for your success and stability.
De mon coté je vous désigne partout comme étant un bon site...
Bonne année encore gardez la Santé et croyez en l'avenir.. moi je crois en vous+++
I would also be willing to pay a higher membership fee to ensure the continued success of Ipernity.
A return to Flickr is simply out of the question and of the other available sites none seems to match the quality of Ipernity.
If Ipernity was to cease I don’t think I would continue to share my photographs anymore.
Keep up the good work, best wishes for a successful and promising 2016.
David
I would be willing to accept a moderate increase in the club membership fee if necessary to ensure ipernity's continued existence.
So how do you get more of us? The thing with us digital customers is just like Dr. Grant said about Brachiosauri in Jurassic Park: "They're moving in herds. They do move in herds!" The cherry picking that you've done on us over the years does not work for us: we either come in herds or we do not come at all.
So, dear ipernity, in order to survive you'll need to find a way to cope with all that crap that comes with herds: porn, badges, politics and you name it. Just let all the flowers blossom.
Jaap van 't Veen club has replied to SpoSpo has replied to Jaap van 't Veen clubipernity is more familiar than any other community i know - to inform us members and to trust in our solidarity and help would have been better a long time ago. your silence was the reason for some to show you their backs, it was the reason for jokes about you and it caused a lot of irritation and frustration.
keep this transparence and you will see that the majority of the members will stay in the same boat with you !
ୱ Kiezkickerde ( ͡°… club has replied to .t.a.o.n.And loyal users will bring good words to people which aren't members at ipernity for the moment.
If somebody would had asked if I could recommend ipernity I would like to say “Yes, it's working, but I am unsecure how long because it seemed to die“, just because there wasn't any communication, the translation server is already down and it doesn't seem there is anyone by the Team out there who is spending some time on ipernity. They don't even telling us what they are currently doing (even now, btw), there is simply no communication at all - it seemed like the server's just running - but just until something happen - then here won't be someone who clicks the reset button.
The lack of communication ends in a lack of trust in the future of ipernity.
Please, come on, it doesn't cost this much to write an article every two months and telling us what's going on. And it shouldn't need such specials like this birthday to post such an article. So please do it more often than during the last year.
Or you will lost the thrust even of your current members for a future of ipernity - you had read the blog entry with the elephant and it's comments. I commented on it this periods of silence had happened before on ipernity already - ending with the launch of the ipernity we know as of today (and I still miss the version of ipernity running before with their threaded comments!) - but for real I was unsecure what's going on - will it be a relaunch, again? Changing the api of google maps to OpenStreetMap api (because its free and doesn't change this often resulting to a not working geotagging on ipernity)? Or.... will ipernity shuuted down (which I won't write)?
I was insecure about what could be the reason for the silence of “Team ipernity“. And thats not the best feeling.
And I am here for good feelings. So please - give your users at least updates what's going on... Not just on birthdays.
I appreciate your honesty in advising us members of the 'tough reality' facing the site: even more, your promise to give us plenty of advance warning should things go badly in future is most welcome. That said, I find this an excellent site that meets my requirements well and have no wish to move elsewhere. I also would be prepared to contribute a higher 'club' membership fee, though I suspect the only real answer financially is to somehow generate a wider revenue stream.
Richard Nuttall club has replied to tiabunna clubI think the best is to ask a bigger financial contribution to all the members in order to help you to maintain this site where I do feel so well and where I started to bind nice relationships.
Maybe you can also reduce your field of activities and stick to the essential !
I cross my fingers so that Ipernity keeps alive as long as possible and thank you for your frank words. Wish you all the BEST for 2016 ! Keep up the good job !!! Kind regards from France.
Marie-Claire
Lets hope for a long term future in whatever form for Ip
LutzP club has replied to Roger (Grisly) clubI am not sure what the advantage of having free membership is to the website, apart from an incentive during an introductory period. How much do people pay for their phones, their cameras, broadband or even their cups of coffee. How much a week do we pay?
I would rather not see advertising, if at all possible. I have just started using the Photoshop Creative website and its galleries. The advertising pop-ups are constant. The galleries aren't moderated so adverts creep in there. No-one ensures that pictures appear in the correct category of gallery.
Best wishes for 2016 and the future.
I, too, would be willing to pay a little extra - although I have already renewed for two years, to protect this wonderful space for images, Ipernity is the best for me.
Stormlizard club has replied to StoneRoad2013 clubA similar thing could be used here with but as the ads would be paying part of our site would always be there, there could be a maximum number permitted at any given time.
I am very sad that we lost our personalized pages of the previous version and never got used to this "on white" version (still waiting for the promized scale of greys version) but would feel terribly sorry if I had to remove all contents to a somewhere else and Loose contact I have with people here, Ipernity is a familiar place, like a shop with human dimensions and not an huge unpersonal mall like flickr for instance.
Please keep going on...
As an exclamation point, just the other day a member who administered two of the groups I belong to closed down her groups and removed all her photos except for one that explains why she is leaving ipernity. Why is she leaving? Because among other things, she tried many times to renew her membership but could not because the program wouldn't let her. She is not the only person this has happened to, as several of my other ipernity friends had the same issue. They actually had to have someone else who could, to buy the membership for them! This is unacceptable, and may have contributed much to ipernity's financial troubles.
I love this site, and just wrote an artcle about why I love it: www.ipernity.com/blog/288603/4425020
I admit that I sound critical of people who are giving up and leaving, but please know that I understand the frustrations that they are going through. If you, the IP team, cannot do something as simple as make it easy for members to pay for their subscriptions, how can you possibly expect ipernity to grow and function properly? One can only assume that you don't care enough to keep it alive for us.
Please, Team ipernity, I am saying the same thing to you that I said to members who want stop financially supporting ipernity: if you don't do anything to help generate funds, then you make your fears our reality; there will be no more ipernity.
Clint has replied to Valfal clubA technical problem like that can be extremely frustrating, though, and I don't use a site like Ipernity to be frustrated. I enjoy what I do here enough to push through it, but if I were even a little less committed I'd just give up and walk away, and I don't blame anybody else who does just that. If you want people to pay for a service, you need to make sure the service works. Taking care of little things like that might make all the difference.
Stormlizard club has replied to Valfal clubValfal club has replied to Clintbonsai59 club has replied to Ur@nos clubOne image at a time - not some hideous eternally-scrolling "mobile-friendly" immersive sensory overload.
(I'm convinced that this is why Google won the battle of the search engines - it was the only one that didn't clutter its user interface with rubbish.)
I agree that a modest increase to the subscription price would be fine -
but I also agree with comments above - this might not be enough to really fix the issue.
You need more users - and perhaps we as existing users could help by evangelising a little more. A couple of decent review articles published somewhere prominent could make a huge difference. I think you do need some marketing help.
The main potentially revenue-generating feature that I have wished for in ipernity would be the ability to allow end users to buy high-quality prints of my images (via a 3rd party printing service), similar to the way smugmug works (but ideally a lot simpler). Ipernity would then take a percentage, obviously. But that would be a lot of technical work to implement (which you are clearly not in a position to undertake).
As a web developer myself, I know what it's like when your application gets to the maximum complexity that can be supported by the brains of the small team available. People think that you can just add more developers and code your way back out of the sustainability problem - which is not usually true.
Perhaps there might be a way that some non-core aspects of the site's routine maintenance and technical upkeep could be shared / devolved more with volunteers from among its members? Sort of a partial step down the road to a more open-source model? I'm in no position to offer that kind of technical resource myself, but others might be. If it were a choice between that and simply packing up altogether...
The suggestion of a Wkipedia-type donation button sounds really great to me. It will give Ipernity staff a cash boost and more time to strategize without stress. People who can and want to give, will. In my experience, open ended asking tends to bring in far more money than asking for a set donation price. (As in raising the price across the board.)
It works for Wiki!
One can't put a price on friendship. Knowing that Ipernity must stay solvent to remain, agree with many others about Club Membership --- have no problem paying for something that is GOOD ! That is what we F-r escapees have found ...
Wishing you the best in 2016 ... and Thank You for letting us know the situation [ instead of us imagining what was going on ] !
I thank each and every one of your for all that your have put into this site --- please keep it going.
so ipernity team - what are your thoughts about us?
Me and some others are planning to arrange a contest group where monthly winner could be awarded with a Club membership gift.
If you are interested to join as a sponsor, then please contact me. The basic is that the sponsor in turn would take care of selection for monthly winner once per year, and then personally send the gift (Club membership) to the winner of that month.
If we get a group of 10-12 supporters, then we could at least have a nice way to channel the gifts and hopefully have fun, as long as it lasts =)
There are of course many open questions. There are new services appeared that are not as friendly and nice places as Ipernity, but are free. More over, all the competitors I can name are using more secure https, whereas Ipernity still uses http, and very likely this would not became changed if money is running out anyway.
And surely something should be done for the SPAM! I even suggest (hoping someone from Ipernity Team read these) there could be volunteers recruited to at least collect the list of obvious "SPAM accounts". I saw there one comment saying new accounts should/could be defined free for only limited time. This would not help on this SPAM situation at all. "SPAMmers" do not use the same account for long time anyway. Every time they create a new account. Just check out for example Explore > Articles, and starting from page 6-10 there are nothing but SPAM, and each of them more or less sent under different account.
Stormlizard club has replied to Sami Serola (inactiv…I know a few users on here that were lucky enough to get a Club fee as a gift for Christmas/Birthday etc, but none remained as Club members after the first year.
Sami Serola (inactiv… has replied to Stormlizard clubSeems unfortunatley so that this post is the message before the big sorry, where no croud funding can help us out?
I do not hope so.
But if the revenues from members/ads will not fund the costs for support and maintenance this will die. No server app runs without maintenance over a time or long term and no "social" community without support...
I checked my fee if I was to renew with Flick my Pro account today (which I have no intention of doing) and this would be $ 49.99. If this meant the survival of IP I would have not problem paying the same as I would for Flickr Pro.
It is also vital as many have said to resolve the problems some members have trying to pay their club fee and cannot do so because of some glitch in the payment system effecting some but not all members.
It is also vital that somehow you can find a way assure IP members that your site will continue to to exist to ensure that present club members wishing to renew their annual fees.
For myself when I am due to renew my club account this will be very important to me whether or not to renew.
And yes..REGULAR updates would help. They need only to be simple !
NOW WILL YOU PLEASE GET RID OF THE TROLL ADVERTISERS ON THE EXPLORE VIDEO PAGES.... and ..... get your Moderators to do something about the NOTIFYS !
Thankyouuuuu !!
Je prefererai cela à la fermeture du site. Nous passons de bons moments à visionner toutes ces photos et même si nous ne les connaissons pas personnellement nous avons beaucoup d'affinités avec nos contacts.
Je rejoins les autres ipernautes pour réclamer un peu plus de communication de l'équipe dirigeante.
www.quora.com/Will-flickr-survive
slgwv has replied to TimCwww.siliconbeat.com/2016/02/01/yahoo-expected-to-unveil-layoffs-other-cost-cuts-during-earnings-call/?source=email
Apparently Marissa's New! Awesome! business model has been an awesome bust. I suspect she'll be out of the picture soon, and if they then fix the Flickr interface I may become more involved there. (I've kept my account for free cloud storage but set all my photos to private.)
If Yahoo really wants to turn itself around, they could start by listening to their customers. But, then, that goes for a lot of places--
Spo has replied to slgwvUn cordial merci à l'Equipe.
When i just think of those flashy awards,fake views and shit on flickr...will never come back,ill rather quit my hobby then go back.
They say Ipernity is dead,even i said it a couple of times like a joke,its not dead,its calm and peacefull,different.
My friends off Ipernity often ask me,why are you on that "neverheard" site?
Answer is always so easy,cause its so simple and nice.
I was really hoping people will stay here after that flickr disaster but most of them went back,it was funny cause some of them was very loud.
Anyway,we will try to help,hope you will find best solution for us all.
cheerz
StoneRoad2013 club has replied to Diane Putnam clubNice to have a response, but it was only "we are listening" ... more info would be appreciated !
Please keep us informed and let us know what we (the users who love what you are doing) can do to help the situation.
tinyurl.com/zgo65c4
Having said that I don't personally think that this increase in fees would not have enough impact to help IP survive into the future.
2 I think that the IP team need a CEO with great experience and knowledge on how to develop IP bigger and better photosharing site to achieve a much larger membership numbers..( The increase in fees could pay for this CEO maybe.
3 I think that if IP could find the model or key that other Photosharing sites used to developed their sites and managed to attract so many millions of members would surly save IP for good.
For example the following top photosharing sites
Instagram 100 million, Snapfish 90m Flickr 87m Photobucket 50m Deviant 25m
4 If only we could figure how the above developed such successful sites. ~We would survive ~
My Battle Cry is "IF THEY CAN DO IT WE CAN DO IT" (Hopefully!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
PS IP need to fix the glitch that some folks are experiencing when trying to pay for club membership and are being denied the ability to pay.
I have just been asked to renew my subscription as a Club Member. My membership according to my account details expires on 08-30-2018, this was paid for 08-05.2015.
Was this a genuine request, or is there some messing around going on we don't know of.
John, Stormlizard rather concerned.
Hello Tess,
After an investigation, it looks like Norton blocks the access to ipernity.
If you deactivate it (or replace it by another security software, i.e. AVG), it works properly.
We do our best to fix it quickly.
Kind regards,
lea
Iljuschin club has replied to Treasa Ui CionaodhaAs indicated on safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=ipernity.com, it would be easy to solve the problem: Delete the exe on cdn.ipernity.com/119/51/63/11045163.829cae4d and reevaluate the site. It is such a problem to kill this file to ged rid of those norton complains here??
Ignore calls by members who want to split the group for ideological reasons. All sides can coexist and find their niches. Refrain from censorship re: statements and photos if they're not pornographic, threatening or hateful.
Last, offer e-stock to club members willing to buy shares to make an investment in Ipernity's long-term viability. Money raised could be invested to provide additional income streams and to address emergencies such as server failure, etc. And most importantly maintain equipment since these costs are far less than replacement from lack of maintenance and keep members updated with developments and happenings.
Best wishes for financial stability and many more years,
William
TimC has replied to William Sutherland clubI've opened one about the difficulties some members have been having with PAYPAL.
E2A - and replied - passed to technical team ...
I await reply !
What I don't see is response from IP. Without some notion of what IP is thinking, I'm in the position mentioned by some others of reducing my use of IP. I had been thinking of taking some photos that were posted on Flickr long ago and copying them to IP, but now I don't see any reason to take that effort. Since one way to hurry the demise of IP is for people to stop or reduce their use of it, we need to hear something.
In the meantime i was researching other photo sites and unfortunatelly there is no similar one,old flicker and ipernity are the most similar...shit!
(we're doomed)
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