Dear members and friends of ipernity,

1) Additional viewing size option.
When viewing group contributions, the 'Small' option displayed the 100px images. Everywhere else, the display used the cropped 75px squares.

Beside the existing icon for this option, now labeled 'Square', there is a new icon for the 100px option, labeled 'Small'. The view of group contributions gains the 'Square' option, which provides a larger overview of the content. The Explore->Gallery and Explore->Noteworthy displays continue to only provide the 'Medium' 240px images and the Lightbox.

For club members, the 240px image that pops up when you mouse-over a 75px square, is also provided for 100px thumbnails, meaning group contributions gain this feature.

2) Help us make groups more appealing and enjoyable for all.
Recently, group clean-up has been getting some much needed support from a few volunteers.
Question: But what can a member without much time do to help?
Answer: Look in your own backyard!

It's easy to find the list of groups one belongs to on your groups page.
1) Do you see any groups that have lots of images that don't match the group's theme?
2) Are there any that you've suggested a photo for but it's been over a week and nothing has happened?
3) Could the group icon or banner image be better?

Copy the url for such a group and send it to the moderator.

It should be noted that while the group clean-up task is large and ongoing (ongoing because we are not a stagnant website), progress is being made. When we began in earnest the clean up project a few years ago, we had 10,548 groups. We now have significantly less: 6,297. We don't have a previous count of groups that had been inactive for more than a year, but we can assume that number has decreased as well. This drop has been thanks to team and volunteer deletion efforts, but also due to the now required search for a similar topic when creating a new group. It's significant to note that only 35 new groups have been created so far this year.

The point is that this isn't a hopeless task and that things are getting better thanks to many individual member's efforts. Thank you to all who have worked towards the goal of making groups something to enjoy.

Your ima team.