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[EN] Dear club members of ipernity! In view of private and professional worries of many members due to the Corona crisis, the ima team discussed whether the general meeting should be postponed. We have decided not to do so. After all, the virus has not yet reached most of us, even though the fear has gone around and we are already experiencing many restrictions in our everyday lives. Fortunately, these do not affect communication via ipernity, which for many members is an important par…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) There is currently a problem in the PayPal payment process. Deposits are accepted correctly, but are not automatically booked through. The manual activation of subscription renewals and their confirmation can take up to 48 hours. We ask for patience until the error is corrected. 2) To keep the register of members up to date, we occasionally delete accounts that have not been used for more than three years. If their owners were group adminis…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The Insert media function in the blog editor works again . From now on embedded video and audio files can even be played without Flash Player . (Please note that the maximum blog length is about 60,000 characters. This corresponds to about 40 manuscript standard pages. Longer articles should be subdivided - also with respect to reader-friendliness.) 2) The image processing with PicMonkey also works again . The temporary failure was a…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Since the option of taking out multi-year subscriptions with ipernity has been available, more than 100 club members have made use of it. We would like to thank them all for the confidence they have expressed in the future of ipernity by this. 2) As a result of these multi-year subscriptions, more than 11,000 EUR have been contributed into the club treasury ahead of schedule. In order to place this liquidity advantageously, we are convertin…

I must begin this article by offering my very sincere thanks for the kind messages of support and concern we have received from so many ipernity members. It really has brought home to me that this is a very caring community group, not merely a photo sharing site. The essential point you need to know is that Pauline and I, and our furry friends, are safe and well and apart from being covered in soot and losing power and communications, our property has not been affected by the fires. As at wri…

Video that you have at ipernity Adding video that you have at ipernity is easy. All you need to do is click 'Insert a media' button on blog article tool bar. Then choose 'Videos' and one (or more) that you wish to add on your article. Adding external video for example from YouTube 1) First on blog editor hit enter several times, to add some empty lines. That makes editing easier after you have embedded the code. 2) Copy the so called em…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) To make it easier for you to see what's new in ipernity, there's now a message bar at the top of your main page. After reading you can simply click it away. To make viewing ipernity friendlier for the eyes, the left and right margins have been darkened. Club members with Standard or Plus subscriptions who wish to keep their page margins bright can do so individually via an advanced "Page Color" option menu. Moreover, the page color and the col…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The implementation of subscription options for users with high storage requirements has been completed. Instead of individual 100 GB boosts, as originally planned, a newly created Plus subscription with 250 GB included storage space will be provided : This was easier…

[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…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity, Exactly one year ago in a Newsflash, the ima team proposed a new subscription structure . With your help, it has been continuously improved and designed to be practical. Today the implementation has taken a big step forward. The "Basic" button on the subscription page is now active : Please note: Downgrading is only possible at the end of a subscription period. Th…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The new multi-year subscription options are now implemented in the ipernity subscription page . The payment process is now very simple in this respect. There are fewer possibilities for errors, the accounting is relieved. 2) The recalculated contributions for an ipernity standard subscription vary between 3.98 Euro per month (six monthly paymen…

[EN] Yahoo tolls the end of its free service "Yahoo-Groups". Yahoo will delete all uploaded content from its public newsgroups on December 14, 2019. Six months after Google+, the next "social network" is on the ropes. Users don't have much time to look around for alternatives. Uploading will already be blocked on 28 October 2019. Please promote ipernity to Yahoo users . We at ipernity still have 10 days to point out ipernity as an alternative in the Yahoo groups. If you are…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The maintenance of the servers at Amazon Web Service (AWS) last Wednesday did not interfere with ongoing operations. 2) The cleanup of invisible content as well as oversized audio and video files from old Guest Accounts is completed. Approximately 1.25 million files were deleted. As a result, 3.5 Terabytes of S3 memory was released at AWS. The expected annual budget relief is 1,750 EUR . 3) The ima team has decided to pass some of…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) A few days ago, ipernity was exposed to a massive attack by Russian spam bots, who managed to overcome the Google Captcha authentication. Despite immediate countermeasures, some intruders managed to open accounts from which iper mails with links to pornographic content were sent to members. But at no time was any personal data or private contents compromised by this bot attack . Please delete any messages delivered to your personal address wi…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The number of new club accounts created in the first 8 months of 2019, now +74, already exceeds the total number of new club accounts created in 2018 (+62). The number of active club accounts even increased by +82 from 1,298 to 1,380 since the beginning of the year. This makes us very optimistic. 2) In addition, members of the VIEW Fotocommunity are currently interested in finding a new home for their photo hobby due to the closure of…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The removal of more than 200 abandoned member accounts with group administrator functions, mentioned in the discussion about the last Newsflash, caused many administrations to be automatically reassigned by the ipernity software. If you don't want to take over such a task, you can leave the group and join it again immediately. 2) This action, as well as our offer to reorganize abandoned groups, which has already been claimed more than thirt…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) During the last 6 months our website has been updated in many parts. In addition to all kinds of small bug fixes, the Breaking-News function and the freely adjustable background color have been introduced. The “Terms of Service” have been updated as well as “About ipernity” and “History”. The subscription page has been redesigned, the old FAQ replaced by a completely new version. The geo-localization was migrated to Open-Street-Map, the inte…

[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…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) For the beginning of summer we have changed the frontpage pictures to the new summer collection . We thank all photographers who provided pictures for this. ☞ To see the Frontpage pictures live, as casual visitors from the web, you need to log out and visit www.ipernity.com again. With [F5] you can scroll through the pictures, with a random order shown. 2) With regard to the database cleanup after August 15, 2019 , we offer…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The final statement of the fundraising for the reprogramming of ipernity is now available. 75 club members and 145 "free" users participated. The sum of the raised capital amounts to 17,114 EUR (57% of 30,000 EUR). Therefore the reprogramming cannot yet be commissioned as planned. 2) Before we consider external funding opportunities, we would like to address those club members who have not participated to date, although they would be econom…