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Version française : Veuillez faire défiler vers le bas ⬇️ Deutsche Version: Bitte nach unten scrollen ⬇️ [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1. In the wake of the positive response to the new ' Explore ' page, we have now put it online in all language versions. As a result, we now have a contemporary landing page for visitors from the web that also looks attractive on smartphones and tablets:…

Version française : Veuillez faire défiler vers le bas ⬇️ Deutsche Version: Bitte nach unten scrollen ⬇️ [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1. The upload problem has been solved for the most part so far. Work is still in progress to fix the bug in replace function. Donations to compensate for the unbudgeted external IT costs caused by the malfunction now amount to 5,682EUR. We sincerely thank all donors. 2. In order to position ipernity more clearly as a non-commerci…

Version française : Veuillez faire défiler vers le bas ⬇️ Deutsche Version: Bitte nach unten scrollen ⬇️ [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) The external IT costs invoiced so far for troubleshooting of the upload problem amount to 7,912 EUR. This unforeseen burden on our club's coffers is eased by many donations, which meanwhile add up to 2,557 EUR *) . We sincerely thank all donors. For further debugging, an IT specialist has contacted us who is related to a club me…

⏩ Deutsche Version ⏩ Version française Dear members and friends of ipernity, A turbulent year ends. In everyday life, we were confronted with incidents that were not even vaguely imaginable at the start of the year. And with regard to our website we also encountered some very critical challenges. In spring, we were struck by an interruption in the connection to PayPal. The cause was that our website was using outdated software that PayPal no longer accepted. In summer, a se…

⏩ English version ⏩ Deutsche Version Chers membres et amis d'ipernity, Une année turbulente se termine. Dans la vie quotidienne, nous avons été confrontés à des incidents qui n'étaient même pas vaguement imaginables au début de l'année. Et en ce qui concerne notre site web, nous avons également rencontré des défis très critiques. Au printemps, nous avons été frappés par une interruption de la connexion à PayPal. La cause en était que notre site web utilisait un logiciel o…

Version française : Veuillez faire défiler vers le bas ⬇️ Deutsche Version: Bitte nach unten scrollen ⬇️ [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) We thank you for the patience and sympathy we received during the downtime of the ipernity website. By now the ipernity website has been successfully rebooted. As far as we can see, no data or subscriptions have been lost. In individual cases, however, double uploads may have occurred. Please check your accounts for this and clea…

Version française : Veuillez faire défiler vers le bas ⬇️ Deutsche Version: Bitte nach unten scrollen ⬇️ [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Today we would like to thank Google first of all. As announced on the Google Blog , beginning June 2021 the company will end the distorting practice of offering unlimited free storage space for photos in its cloud. 2) Even more pleasing is the fact that ipernity was mentioned in the specialised media in October 2020…

Version française : Veuillez faire défiler vers le bas ⬇️ Deutsche Version: Bitte nach unten scrollen ⬇️ [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The 'ipernity advertising' group , in which we bundle all advertising activities for ipernity, now has 77 members. We are pleased about the lively participation. 2) In this group, a small active subgroup YouTube has now formed, producing short videos to improve our presence on YouTube. Here are the latest produ…

Version française : Veuillez faire défiler vers le bas ⬇️ Deutsche Version: Bitte nach unten scrollen ⬇️ [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The ipernity advertising group , in which we are bundling future advertising activities for our club, now has 60 members. We are pleased about the great interest and active participation . 2) The list of photo bloggers , which belongs to this group, already has 45 entries. If you know other photo bloggers, add…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) In technical and economic terms, we have achieved a lot since we have managed ipernity ourselves. Now is the time to make this great progress public in order to attract new club members because the stock of registered accounts is exhausted: [a] Non-renewal of 2-year subscriptions wh…

[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…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) As part of the quality offensive, which our President Eric Desjours encouraged in his annual report, we continue to work on improving the linguistic and visual consistency of ipernity. We have therefore adapted the translation of the different dates. In the future we will use the following terms consistently: 2) The upload…

[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…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! Recently it was brought to our attention that uploading of music clips violated copyright laws. While German copyright laws are very strict and consist of no “fair use” doctrine, the copyright laws of most of the world do permit this doctrine for educational and non-commercial purposes. Typically regarding music, clips of 15 to 30 seconds are considered the standard of fair use. On the other hand, the German Federal Constitutional Court has a…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The widescreen mode of explore/whatshot/photos and explore/whatshot/videos has been further optimized. Expressed wishes have been taken into account as far as possible. In addition, the layout was harmonized with the display of 'Photos' and 'Groups'. The widescreen button has been moved to the drop-down Display menu (see 2), and the setting is remembered for use as your browse.…

[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…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! An unexpected replacement of one main server will be necessary in the next few days. Therefore our website has to be completely shut down for a while. The date and time of the shutdown cannot be stated yet. It depends on how we progress with the preparations. The duration of the interruption could be 12 to 48 hours. We ask for your understanding. Your ima team [FR] Chers membres et amis d'ipernity ! Un remplacement inatt…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) On May 11, 2020 we received a message from PicMonkey that the old version of this image processing program will be shut down at the end of the year. For the new version, there will not be any online interface projected by this third-party manufacturer (see the original message below). We have already recommended alternatives . Due to different user needs, we do not intend to link one of them to ipernity. 2) Due to our actively manag…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The image editing via PicMonkey works again. The manufacturer of this program has repaired its interface. 2) But there is free access only to the old version of PicMonkey. This is based on the Adobe Flash Player, whose days are numbered because the technology is outdated: why-is-adobe-flash-player-shutting-down 3) It is therefore to be expected that this old version of PicMonkey will not be online for much longer. We recommend you to…

Note: Article lead photo taken at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant, NY on March 29, 2020. Background created from desert photo purchased from Shutterstock.® As the world remains gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic that has completely transformed our way of life and altered our priorities and filled so many with immense suffering, one can only look back to the to the life of Jesus, especially the time when he spent 40 days and nights in the desert at Mount Quarantania (Jabal al-Qarant…