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Yes, like most other flickr refugees, I'm setting up a new home on ipernity because I don't like the changes flickr has made or the way they were implemented. Yes, ipernity is a lot like the 'old' flickr and perhaps that is why it has attracted so many of us. But it is not flickr, and I hope never will be. I hope the site won't become a victim of its own success and be made an offer it can't refuse from some faceless corporate entity. What I like about ipernity so far This blogging f…

I'm starting to feel at home here already! Going back to flickr, as I still do while I'm sorting things out there, feels like a visit to an alien planet. Discovered two more random faves on oldish photos last time I was there. Again from a newly signed up member with a twee coloured camera icon (yuk, the sort of thing you'd buy a 2 year-old!) but no pics at all, which is at least better than the porn... Yet another addition to the block list. It will be nice to leave all that behind me soon.…

I am a refugee from the Great Flickr Disaster of May 2013. The first I knew of it was when I was checking facebook on my phone over breakfast. A friend had written: "Have you seen the hideousness that's the revamped Flickr? no no no no no NO!" I discovered what she meant when I opened my flickr page. It was like being parachuted into a disaster zone. My home page was a jumbled mosaic of seemingly randomly sized pictures - a latest upload from one of my contacts was so huge that it filled a…

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Two or three things I learnt in one year of photography A new group for this: Ipernity Academy .