Group: New Flickr Survivors

Yes, Tim, I am also looking for that feature....anybody know where it is?

I'd like to be able to display a set (oops, album) as a slideshow. I used to use that feature quite a lot on flickr. And also to group albums as collections (someone already mentioned that).
But I'm sure they've got enough to cope with at the moment without being inundated with requests for new features. Just happy to have escaped from the madness and get settled here.

I am happy if this place doesn't allow pics in the comments...

But I miss having view, fav and comment number under my picture's homepage. I also looove stats.

Hi!

You wrote:
>>I am happy if this place doesn't allow pics in the comments...<<

Does this apply to _any_ pics in comments? I use the comments to add photos that tell a story (e.g., this one) or show variations of a photo (e.g., this one).

I'd be VERY sorry to lose this possibility.

Bye,
Cameron

Edit: I had listed "features" of the new flickr that are thankfully missing here. Now I'm removing that part because I don't want that 'negativity' here. I'll just say instead that I'm glad they aren't here!!!

Features that are not missing:
Friendly people, a welcome feeling, people who actually seem to care.

Also there are features here that were not on flickr. Some of them are pretty neat too. I like that you can make articles and documents and choose to have them in a 'timeline" on your page if you want. Note the keyword "choose"! At flickr people resorted to making a set with text or a really long post in a group if they wanted to make a tutorial or article.

I'm sure glad that ipernity is here.

Hear, hear, Ned. My thoughts exactly!

How can I mark an image as favourite. Help anyone. I just can't find it.

Des classeurs !!!

I wish there'd be a timestamp on the "your space" commenting listing.

Hi all,
Can please one of the experienced users here answer these questions:
- If I write a comment to a photo of anybody and s/he answers, I cannot know it until check "my history" - is it right?
- And if I check and see something I want to answer, there is no "replay" option there - or I couldn't find it. Do I have to go to the site of this photo again only to say "yes" or "thank you" or something?
Thanks ahead
umit

1. Yes, it is. Some time ago there was a working RSS- Feed which you could use instead at www.ipernity.com/feed/add/replies but unfortunally the feeds are broken after the redesign...

I really like ipernity but there is one thing that I dislike and that's the difficult way to keep up with one's contacts' most recent uploads. Here you go to the News tab, click on a friend (or acquaintance or family) but that takes you to that particular friend's photostream only and when you're done you have to go to the News tab again and to friends etc. and I find myself going back and fort, back and forth and it is the one thing that really gives me a headache. In fact this is such a cumbersome way of keeping track of my contacts' latest uploads that I keep thinking I have overlooked something. Except I can't find what it is...

I also would love to have collections (but I know staff are working on those).

I have found that you can grab the HTML code from a photo on flickr and paste that into the comments. An end-run around having to join the 'Club' and a possible reason to keep our flickr accounts to use as a storage dump.
I would also like the ability to reply to more than one person at a time but it is a little thing in the scheme of things. All in all I am very pleased to be here. A very warm, intimate feeling.

I'd like to have a search facility that searches keywords for ALL photos, not just my own.

The search box for everyone else's photos includes only the TITLES, not the keywords, and not even the descriptions. Hence, a search for Oxfordshire (where I live) brought me only two results, when there must undoubtedly be a lot more. I've contacted ipernity about this and they say they're looking into improving it. Perhaps a few more members could write in to remind them?

Thanks, yes, I've just sussed it. Still finding my way around.

Another thing I'd like is a slide show.

...with some nice, harmonic music-tune which plays during the slideshow runs...

Yes, Ipernity allready had it before the relaunch, the slideshow-"plugin" which was used for this nicely slideshows are still working: www.ipernity.com/doc/kiezkicker/album/63847/show/with/476659 - but now without any background-music-tune... (go at the top of the page and click "options" to see that it could play music if you select a musicfile after "/show/with" for the slideshow- the "476659" comes out of the url from www.ipernity.com/doc/kiezkicker/476659)
Badly after the Ipernity-Relaunch they now use another slideshow (called "Display on black background" or something like that) which wasn´t able to play music during the display...
The new Ipernity - design suxx in some way. Not as much as the flickr-one did but still many features which are allready implemented were just lost after tthe Ipernity-redesign...

I started another thread, but to keep this one up to date - there doesn't seem to be a lightbox or slideshow facility that will show an image bigger than the 1024px version.

There are not many Groups at present but I imagine this is now all about to change. When opening a particular photo, I would like to be able to see at a glance, what other Albums and/or Groups the photo belongs to.
This was a really useful tool on Fluckr which helped communities to grow.

when you open a particular photo you'll find on the right hand side directly under 'Location'
a list named ' See also...'
that should be what you are looking for...

Having just replied - I was unable to reply to both in one go :-(

None let Inpernity grow as it wants and add functions that they see fit and let Flickr do what it wants which they have.

The thing I'll miss most is not showing up on external searches. Why is that?

I just LEFT Flckr..... and would like to leave it at that......
Found a new site to put my pictures and happy with it.
Personally I think it's bad form to start a list with complaints,...'cause yhat is what it must look like to the longterm members and staff of Ipernity,.....about "missing features" on a site which has been very welcoming and forthcoming...

Time to move on!

Here, here the "VOICE" of reason.

"This is not a 'Missing' Feature Request:"

But it goes on with a critique.................

Really people............
A few days in the house that welcomed you and accomodated you ( and I think staff have been working their *sses off to do so) and already critiquing and wanting more......, different,....... change.......

REALLY???

I'm not surpirized some of the Ipernity-members are getting pretty annoyed by the X-Fers........

Stop this X-Flckr stuff,..... go mingle!

I am considering that, thank you.

Just trying to do some damage control here, have you got any idea what these kind of threads are doing to the image of X-F-ers?
Have you spent any time on threads outside of the X-fckr realm?
If you did and are able to read German or French you'd know sentiments range from "laughing stock" (as in:who do they think they are?) to generally "pissed off".......

Just saying....

I'm sure you mean no harm, but it dóes harm us.

It goes to far to ask you to remove this message, I'm close to suggesting it though.....

Regards, M

If there is that much ill feeling it does sound like it would be worth creating a new thread to bring it to the attention of the people in this group, and provide somewhere to discuss it rather than lose that discussion in a lot of other threads.

So far pretty much everything I thought was missing has turned out to be there, just with a different front end or way to access. The only thing I can tell I'll miss, as I get more photos uploaded, is the "collections" feature. For now, a workaround I'm using is to preface all related album titles with the same keyword; e.g., "mining", "geology", etc.

=== Indentation (e.g. for poems) ===

In the image captions I used HTML codes e.g. for the space character. This allows indentations in poems.

Mickey's ImageWorks said:

Have you spent any time on threads outside of the X-fckr realm?

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I'm puzzled.
I want to get away from this ex-flickr thing and looked for a place to meet other people but couldn't find a forum. So where on earth would I find these threads?

Good, clear list at the top of this thread now. Thanks, Andrew.
Another one:
Facility for admins to sticky thread in groups. I think others have already asked about this.

OK, thanks - I've added it to the list.

I found the groups -> news of your groups -> your discussions page helps a bit to keep track of replies to your comments, but it could be made easier to find other people's replies.

Browsing other bits of the site I can see that the Iperneity team made a few changes to Group discussions in the recent Ipernity revamp that may still need some refinement. Unfortunately I guess none of us know how it used to be.

I'd noticed the non-working pagination as well - seems odd as you couldn't really miss it during testing?

it's difficult if not impossible to keep track of comments and replies, since the permalinks are gone due to the recent redesign of, yes, ipernity too... unfortunately we don't have sreenshots of the news/ activity pages from before and the waybackmachine shows only content that could be seen when offline...

after the redesing there was even a brief period when you could give only one answer to a comment using the 'reply' button. every next answer would go to the end of the list where it stood out of context... some of us started to prefix comments or answers with '@mydear' and 'quote' but it's cumbersome...

several 'old' members have already sent tickets or complained about the missing permalinks, but, and this is not a critique, the team seems to prioritize requests from new (paying) customers... and with the influx and great amount of uploads they're also kept busy...

so we sit and wait

The only problem I've found so far is with the "Group Rules" (for various groups)....where can I find them?

You can see the posting limits using Organize -> Groups

Like how much docs per day or so? In the organizer under the group - tab. The rules in general: At the right side of the group-homepage...

Testing to write an answer again: In the organizer at the group-tab the posting-limits, and at the group-homepage at the right the others.
Will be going offline for now and watch if my earlier comments which I had made appearing again...

where is my previous comment???

Please give an explanation why it was deleted!
I wish to know what part of it was offensive or against any netiquette.

edit: it seems to be a bug making comments disappear
edit2: still not solved...

Me to. There wouldn´t be any reason for posting here again if my answers with a solution were deleted within minutes.

My reply to Phil also seems to have disappeared - and it certainly couldn't have been seen as contentious. Perhaps something is broken?

if, then it's a rather biggish bug...

another user answered me 5 times in this feed, i can see his comments under my history, but not here in the thread....

again...

if, then it's a rather biggish bug...

another user answered me 5 times in this feed, i can see his comments under my history, but not here in the thread....

test

if i reply, my answer disappears instantaneously...

i try to add it without hitting reply.

again...

if, then it's a rather biggish bug...

another user answered me 5 times in this feed, i can see his comments under my history, but not here in the thread....

The reply-button is broken, it seems...

Yes, it would seem so. I wonder if we have hit some limit in this thread, or if it affects other threads as well?

Have asked in www.ipernity.com/blog/team/491629 if they are working at group-discussion in this moment...

@Tranquility:
I think Kiezkicker is referring to this

@Tranquility: sorry about this confusion.

'I have been having this problem for a while now but it didn't matter because I would read them on the RSS feed and reply in the reply box. However, now that I know you can reply to a specific message it would be nice to be able to find that message.'

as an aswer to that i wrote a comment criticizing the missing permalinks after ip redesign.
that comment disappeared. together with other replies (to comments) other people made.

at first I thought my comment was deleted and asked if it was offensive, but it seems there's a problem when answering via the reply button...

the whole discussion about permalinks started only because we were / I was moaning that it would be enormous easier to follow conversations if we had them (back)

In www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/19074497 I quote four lines from a poem:

201· · You may seek it with thimbles--and seek it with care;
202· · · · You may hunt it with forks and hope;
203· · You may threaten its life with a railway-share;
204· · · · You may charm it with smiles and soap--

I would like to replace "·" by "&nbsp;" without the "&nbsp;" being automatically replaced by a blank character. What do you think about that?

As for an answer: There is already an "unofficial" group for proposals in ipernity. Therefore www.ipernity.com/group/unofficialgroup/discuss/144245 is where I posted my question. In that group each proposal has its own thread. I think that group is a better place for proposals than this thread im "New Flickr Survivors".

I miss nothing that would be essential to me.

I'm grateful to Ipernity for having this site and I do not wish it to become a copy of Flickr., with glitzy banners & awards. (Choose another hobby if that's what you want!)

However Ipernity does need a little tweaking which I imagine which come as the community grows. And some of the basic Flickr tools were really useful like having an easy accessible button for "Add to a group". I really miss that. Also having the total number of view & favs attributed to each photo.

=== Searching ===
I guess, the ipernity guys know what could be improved. But its not an easy job. For the time being Google helps (more or less). e.g. www.google.com/search?q=%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipernity.com%2Fgroup%2F%22+The-Hunting-of-the-Snark

=== Galleries and Collections ===
No high priority to me. I used collections with flickr; if I would need some in ipernity, I just would write an article with links. Thus, on could use articles to create something like galleries and collections. (The support to writing formatted articles is an ipernity feature that makes quite a difference.)

Not sure if this has been mentioned before: There isn't an integrated "Recent Activity" location. Now, we have to go back and forth between "Your space: they have commented" (where we see comments on our photos that have been left by others) and "Your history: Your Comments" to see comments we've left for others, and any responses since.

I'd love to see one place where we could go to see all of this, with tabs or filters for activity on my photos and replies to my comments.

Does anybody mentonied to write a ticket for this issue? I wasn´t online the last days so I haven´t since now...

I reported the problem of the replies that aren't being displayed. The Ipernity tech team are looking at it.

So pleased to hear that collections is something that may be getting introduced to ipernity.

That was something I used a lot over on flick ...

www.flickr.com/photos/51578021@N08/collections

Otherwise, the only thing I miss so far is the fact that, if I'm right, the tag limit is set at 50. Over there I often went right up to the maximum 75 so it would be nice if ipernity could raise their limit.

Apart from that I love it here. Just need to get my photos moved across.

Test for Lea

Yes you can do both of those things using advanced search from the organiser.

(hopefully you can see this reply either in an RSS feed, or the news of your discussions section. There is an ipernity bug so it isn't displayed on the group page)

test

Andrew, just a follow on from my last comment here, which I can't see in the thread due to the bug you refer to in your opening statement, but which I know has been recorded.

As well as a comment I made about introducing Collections I said it would be nice if ipernity could raise the keyword limit to 75. Following that I saw Lea's comment saying "test".

Now I wasn't sure if she was testing the bug to see if her comment would display or suggesting I test the limit, but I decided it might be the latter and so I did just that.

Pleased to report that you can indeed add 75 tags per photo, though if you try to add any more the pop up says you can't add any more because the limit is 50, even though it is clearly now 75.

So, if that's an upgrade folks thank you very much ... just need the Collections now. Sorry, greedy Scotsman!

Yes Lea's post was a test to check (again) that new posts to this thread aren't showing up. But that's good news about the tag limit being raised.

Miss the stats...