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Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Ipernity General Assembly (IGA 2026). Details can be read in the formal announcement . 2) New group feature, 'View your content'. The initial reason for adding this was to help a member decide whether to add an image to the suggested group. This is when visiting the group from a 'visit/add' link as a non-member, but having content in it. However, the feature as released is available to any viewer, member or not, with content in the group. A…

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…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Unwanted phishing emails. Further to the precaution of putting up a warning in our top banner, the policy on ipermails for new members has been revised. From the previous limit of 10 different recipients allowed per day for the first week, it is now far more restrictive to impact the scammers, while data shows that this should not affect honest new members. 2) Upcoming Ipernity General Assembly. First, a date for your diary, if you are able…

Real World meetings [EN] [DE] [ES] [FR] [IT] [NL] [PT] Ipernity members not only communicate online but also meet in real life to take photos together and/or exchange ideas. Such meetings are often organised in groups where photos of the meetings are also published. Please look below for a list of groups dedicated to upcoming and past meetings. If you are interested in photos which show participants of former meetings look at the group Iper-Treffen - die Köpfe hinter…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, Happy New Year! Let's work together to have a joyful and healthy 2026. 1) Images suggested for groups. We would love to hear from the membership with any thoughts and ideas on the initial roll-out of the following revision. With the effort to clean up groups, it has been noted that groups often have images that do not fit the group's theme/topic. This is more prevalent in groups where images are added without being checked by an administrato…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, We wish this holiday season brings you and your loved ones many moments of joy. 1) Confirmation of remove/delete action. Following a report by a member of an unexpected deletion of an image, we did not find any bug in the system to explain it. However, the confirmation prompt shown after clicking the [x] for 'Delete this photo' did have 'OK' as the default. Meaning that an accidental second click or hitting [enter] would confirm the deletion.…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, As the seasons change we're grateful for our wonderful community and our continuing working website. We hope the new season brings great art and beauty to each of us. Thank you all for contributing to our modest and advert free place on the web. 1) Group search feature. It was noticed that the Search feature for groups only looked at the title. This update adds the option of including the group description in the search. This is a benefit both…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Photon festival. We have started an experiment. From September 5 to 7, 2025, we had a booth at the PHOTON Photography Festival in Illingen / Saar, Germany, where we promoted Ipernity. Thanks to Bernhard (Bergfex), who traveled from Austria especially for this event, we were able to talk to visitors at the festival and raise awareness of Ipernity. We'll have to wait and see if this will be reflected in the membership numbers. We also l…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Facelift for videos. If you recall when the Adobe Flash Player was disbanded, the use of the HTML5 'video' tag was implemented. But the coding provided by 'Share' under the 'Actions' menu was not updated from using the iframe tag. This has been rectified, for audio files too, so that they can be included in comments, image descriptions, and articles. Also, they can now be played within the medium and large size multiple item display pages. As a c…

World Photography Day is an annual, worldwide celebration of the art, craft, science and history of photography. This is the 5 th year that our club's World Photography Day group will honor the day and we will be accepting photographs taken on Tuesday, August 19th, 2025. Each photographer may submit one photo. Last year we had record 73 participants. Can we get more this year? Tell your friend! Submissions will be accepted through the end of August to allow time for editing,…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Quota for adding to a group. This relates to groups having a limit on the number of contributions allowed in a day/week/month time frame. This was controlled on exact 24 hour intervals before the window allowing further additions was again opened. With this revision, the next open day starts at midnight, the next week starts Monday, and the next month on the first. Please see this article for a full explanation. 2) Minor update regarding pri…

This relates to groups having a limit on the number of contributions allowed in a day/week/month time frame. This was controlled on exact 24 hour intervals before the window allowing further additions was again opened. With this revision, the next open day starts at midnight, the next week starts Monday, and the next month on the first. For '1 per day' the old coding meant the user had to wait for a full 24 hour interval before being able to add again. Now, '1 per day' means what it says. For…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Server overload update. Access to our website is somewhat improved from the days of unhelpful error messages, but as our servers are still overloaded by bots the team continues to work on finding a solution to the delayed loading of pages. What the team has done: 1) See the previously published article . 2) A new firewall has been installed and with a few updates to the settings, error messages no longer appear and so there has…

[Edit 8/6/2025: The loading of pages is back to normal speeds] Currently our club’s beloved ipernity website varies in accessibility. You may notice times with basically no access, times with very slow loading times and other times when it works quickly. There doesn’t appear to be any regular pattern to these disruptions. As noted before, these overloads are caused by excessive requests accessing our servers. These may be from the new AI bots that since March 2025 now have software t…

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…

While we don't have a solution at this time, there is a work around for this. It takes a small amount of effort, but if mapping is important to you, then you can do so as follows: One can manually change the longitude and latitude for a photo. If the photo is already placed on the map you will see this option just to the right of 'View on map'. If the photo hasn't been placed on a map yet, the option is right below the "Locate on the map" option. Of course you need to know what the longitu…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Additional translation option. It is now possible to translate the "Interests" section in addition to the general section of a member's About page, accessed from the 'More information' link. 2) Minor feature adjustment. The 'Report as inappropriate' box that is seen on received ipermails has been moved over to the right. This is to avoid accidental checking of the box when deleting an ipermail on a touch screen device. 3) Public Domain W…