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[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1. Tomorrow the meteorological winter begins. Therefore we have switched the ipernity front page to "winter operation". Once again, we would like to thank the photographers who contributed with their pictures to create a versatile collection. 2. In order to disturb the ongoing operation as little as possible, the cleaning of the database was switched to individual account processing. To be on the safe side, each individual account history is…

La campagne de financement participatif (crowdfunding) par l'IMA

[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…

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[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Updating the operating software of our servers with the support of innovations ON went without major difficulties. 2) The interruption in the automated PayPal payment process has thus been resolved. PayPal payments are now handled promptly again. 3) Next, innovations ON will take care of the credit card payment options that have been idle for over two years. If everything goes as expected, those options will be available again shortl…

[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…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The inflow of new members is rather encouraging: 2) Although 34 of the club subscriptions registered in 2019 are still trial subscriptions, the increase in the number of paid subscriptions is expected to exceed 100 by the end of the year. That's more than during 2017 and 2018 combined. 3) On the other hand, we regret the loss of some long-time…

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…

Version française : Veuillez faire défiler vers le bas ⬇️ Deutsche Version: Bitte nach unten scrollen ⬇️ [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1. As an administrator of groups you have recently been given the possibility to send iper-mails to all group members without them having to be your contacts. This is a new function. You can find it in the group administration:…

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…

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[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The summer collection of Frontpage pictures is now online. We thank all members who have enriched it with new contributions. 2) This morning we successfully exchanged one of our main servers. For this technical operation we had the support of an AWS expert from Innovations ON . He is currently checking our entire server architecture for the optimal balance between adequacy and performance to make sure that our website is running on an up…

For other languages: ipernity club members may use the integrated translator at the end of this article. (Visitors: Please use DeepL Translator or install an add-on that suits your browser.) Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) This weekend we are celebrating a 5 years anniversary , as on September 1, 2017, we members took over the operation of this website and thus saved it from disappearing. Since then, we have overcome all challenges. We a…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) In the comments to the last Newsflash again many suggestions for improvement were made. We will do our best to fulfill them. However, it is not possible to make changes that require modifications of the database. With a ten-year-old database recording millions of uploads, ratings and comments linked together, the risk of causing critical follow-up problems would be too great. 2) Technical support would be helpful to accelerate the proce…

[26 Oct, 20:00 UTC] Our IT help has just reported that they have put a block in place to prevent this specific issue from happening again. Our initial report It appears that an AI agent is trying any email address it has to attempt to login, trying passwords, and even clicking 'Forgot password'. We have received the 'Reset password' link in email for ima moderator, and team, and one of my test accounts. And two members have reported being unable to login. The message, 'Sorry too many u…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) In addition to the language options in the main menu, we have enabled Esperanto for group management again . This allows our Esperanto speaking members to continue editing the descriptions and rules of existing groups. 2) The seed capital for the reprogramming of ipernity has grown gross to 19,740 EUR meanwhile. Of this, 3,389 EUR are donations and 16,351 EUR are bonds from the community. After deducting 700 EUR bank fees, this brings the…

We received a bank transfer payment at the end of March without the reference of the ipernity account number, nor could any match be made via the name. If the member who we assume has lapsed to a Guest account, has knowledge of a payment made by E S Kessinger, please contact the team. This case is an example of the delay for the member, and the extra effort by team, when this piece of information is not included.

Version française : Veuillez faire défiler vers le bas ⬇️ Deutsche Version: Bitte nach unten scrollen ⬇️ [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) As of today, we welcome visitors from the web to our homepage with Easter pictures from the community. We thank all the photographers for their contributions. 2) In order to take into account all the changes that have taken place since the IMA was founded four years ago, we have undertaken a general revision of ou…

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…

[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…