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Just a few months after Team Ipernity offered a "two for one" subscription offer to boost finances and increase membership, came the terse announcement that they could no longer sustain the site, and would be shutting down Jan 31, 2017.

FLICKR users who had migrated to iPernity.com after Yahoo's disastrous Flickr Fiasco in May 2013 now had to re-live the fiasco all over again, in not only trying to find a new home & new community for sharing their photos & stories, but were given a very short window to save (without any help, tools, api, or suggestion on how to do so) & move all of their images, text, stories, and documents to another server (some iPernity users had been members for years and had amassed hundreds, if not thousands of photos).

Ipernity users who are smart, would already have backup originals of all their work, but for all those who used the site not only for sharing photos, but for social interaction and friendship as well, now have to scramble to set up these connections elsewhere.

What a huge amount of wasted time and effort.

Ruebenkraut, Bergfex, , Thérèse have particularly liked this photo


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 slgwv
slgwv club
I kept my F***r account for free cloud storage, but made all my pix private so Yahoo wouldn't make a dime off them. So, I'm not happy about going back, but I may participate in the ex-Ip groups some. But the bulk of my albums will stay private!
7 years ago.
appaloosa has replied to slgwv club
That is my strategy also - have participated somewhat in the ex-pat Ip groups on 23hq.com, but I guess the bulk of my photos will remain with Fckr. With Yahoo's future now in the hands of Verizon, who's to say what's gonna happen.

*sigh*
7 years ago.
 Pam J
Pam J club
Sigh indeed
7 years ago.
Fizgig has replied to Pam J club
Don't sigh... Put a call out for coders willing to devote some of their knowhow to an existing site like 23HQ whose photo sharing site's code is virtually completely open to manipulation through CSS. They put a foundation in place and what you want to build on top of it is pretty open.

There are some glitches of course -- like the search feature --- but most of those aren't complicated fixes. But, before anyone of their staff invests time, there has to be demand.... And willingness to work with them rather than just complain about the site on other sites. I think it's ironic people complain about a site that's been successfully around for more years than this sinking ship on this sinking ship.
7 years ago.
Pam J club has replied to Fizgig
I am MORE than aware of the costs of GOOD coders...and coding.... also aware nothing has been done for years.. which actually is simply a fact as they were involved with other things which is fine
7 years ago. Edited 7 years ago.
 Bergfex
Bergfex club
1st of September, 2017:
IPernity is still running!
6 years ago.
 Ruebenkraut
Ruebenkraut club
Appaloosa, please come back!
5 years ago.
appaloosa has replied to Ruebenkraut club
@ Ruebenkraut : Danke, Rueben. I've been thinking about it; but I've already reached my max, and I'm not quite ready to pay 70$ for a yearly subscription...:-(
5 years ago.

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