One could for example install a free Wordpress.org Content Management System on our server, and see how it goes. But there are multiple things to consider:
How do we manage the subscriptions? With less than hundred users one could rely on people paying their share with no need to look after much. They could use PayPal or what ever works. And then just check the bank account every now and then to see that all have paid their share. But does it work with thousand users?
And if subscriptions should be dealt with more or less in manual way, would such web site gain much new users?
One key feature at ipernity has been tools that support sharing files, opinions and ideas with others. Does any CMS support discussion forums and groups between all and/or selected group of members?
Does CMS like Wordpress give tools to present "News" to all members in similar way as ipernity does?
There are management needed to install all this, MySQL and CMS, and then also keep it all up-to-date.
Then what could it look like? Every member could then of course hopefully get to show their own "home page" and collections. If we prefer to keep it simple, then all would have more or less the same layout though, and only some personal tampering allowed. For discussion forums there seem to be plugins to choose from. But plugins to arrange teams or groups is still open. As are number of features that makes ipernity so special (PiP notes, sharing EXIF, use different licenses, unique URL, share with different level of contacts etc.).
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"I could also help with programming. Here, too, it would be good to know what's coming up. I look after several Wordpress installations and am the "caretaker". I adapt themes, write functions in functions.php where necessary or sometimes a small plug-in. In the frontend, I edit CSS and HTML, but not Javascript."
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Now I only wonder which is what we have: Linux AMI or Linux 2?
EDIT: But I suppose Gabriel Filip knows all this, as I just found out on the
email he sent.
if the idea proposed here would mean to replace the current Ipernity software with Wordpress this would be beyond my scope.
But what I can say from my experience with Wordpress (WP) is this:
-- while WP is a multi-user system out of the box it is not a community out of the box. There are several add-ons and plugins available. BuddyPress is a prominent one. I don't know how well such a plugin would scale. Some 100 oder 1000s of users....
-- like any other CMS Wordpress offers a kind of framework for common tasks. If you rely on WP as a base you have to follow the rules of Wordpress. Even as a simple blogger I find the pace of updates quite high. There are at least 2 major updates a year. And each of them might force you to adapt and alter your code. I said 'might' as its not sure, how much you are affected, but it can mean some work. Wordpress is a like a river. Once in, you have to flow with it.
-- looking at the present functionality of Ipernity I'm pretty shure that it would mean custom coding. Maybe quite a lot. But if you have custom coding of some amount it would be become less likely you will find help within the Wordpress Community which for itself is a major advantage of the software.
Alltogether WP is a huge universe by now. It might be worth looking for solutions and examples there. At the moment I do not know of any WP sites which resemble Ipernity but there might be some.
Hope I could help a little bit
*stefan
Sami Serola (inactiv… club has replied to Realbeck clubOne modest goal is to to at least get a web site of our own, where we can provide information if ever such a fatal outage happens again, as what we experienced during last weeks.
And as a tool to build up a community, it may at least help us to learn, what is required.
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