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A couple of days late, as I'm away from home ... [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Meanwhile, SSL encryption has been extended to all ipernity login pages. Your registration and log-in processes are completely secure now. 2) Like other websites with login, ipernity offers the option "Stay connected". Under certain circumstances, however, this can be a safety gap. We therefore recommend that you always log out at the end of a session. This is especially necessary for a sha…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Synchronization problems on our upload servers have affected ipernity's performance since May 8th. In cooperation with Christophe Ruelle, our IT support team succeeded in finding and correcting the cause of the error. 2) We thank you in this context for your patience and your trust, as well as for the many encouragement we received via Facebook: www.facebook.com/pg/ipernity/reviews/?ref=page_internal 3) At the same time the direct link…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! We are pleased to present to you today the financial report*) for the short fiscal year 2017**). Adjusted for the one-off expenses in connection with the takeover of the website (contract costs and settlement of debts of Ipernity S.A.), revenues exceeded expenses. The website is therefore economically viable. *) English version: www.ipernity.com/doc/team/46643796 **) 14.04.2017 - 31.12.2017 Based on the existing subscriptions, a reasonab…

A very close friend has just lost her 92 year old mother to kidney failure, about 0400 on Friday 13th April 2018. I may or may not be on-line for the next few days, as I will be travelling around and otherwise occupied. {Too soon for a funeral date, but sometime in the next two to three weeks, I expect.} updated - the Funeral will be on the morning of Monday, 30th April 2018.

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) In the meantime, the beta version of the new homepage has also been optimized for mobile devices. Desktop version malfunctions have been fixed, language presets linked to the main software. The homepage now runs stable in all browsers. By clicking on the copyright symbol in the image you can directly access the account of the respective photographer. 2) The Easter collection of the homepage pictures was replaced by spring pictures from the…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! Today we may present the new ipernity homepage for testing. We thank all those who have contributed to its realisation. Above all, we would like to thank the photographers who contributed the pictorial material. The entire collection can be seen here: www.ipernity.com/doc/team/album/1049798 During activation, there may be brief interruptions or slowdowns in operation tonight. We ask for your understanding and wish you a happy Easter! Your…

[EN] Today there are neither good nor bad news - and that is pretty good. It means that operations are running smoothly and all projects are well on schedule. Your ima team [FR] Aujourd'hui, il n'y a ni bonnes ni mauvaises nouvelles - et c'est plutôt bon. Cela signifie que les opérations se déroulent bien et que tous les projets se déroulent selon le calendrier prévu. Votre équipe ima [DE] Heute gibt es weder gute noch schlechte Nachrichten - und das ist ziemlich gut. Es…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Four months ago we initiated a discussion about how we would like to describe ipernity to outsiders. The corresponding newsflash (www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4683682) is one of the most read ima news. In the meantime an updated version of "About ipernity" has been created from the draft of November 2017, taking into account your suggestions. 2) With the help of our new IT service provider, we have put this version online today. You can find…

The [EN] version of the ima newsflash. Has it really been a year ? How time flies ! Here's raising a glass (or cup of coffee) to many more years of happy photo-sharing and other activities, here on Ipernity. The [DE] and [FR] versions can be found here, on the ima team blog :- www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4694906 [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Exactly one year ago, on 23rd of February, 2017, the prefecture of Val-de-Marne issued the founding deed (as of 20.02.2017) to…

Just the [EN] version of the latest IMA Newsflash; the French & German versions are be found here :- www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4693794 Dear members and friends of ipernity! Since the last newsflash on 26 January 2018 the topics of copyright and intellectual property policies have arisen. As a friendly reminder to all, based on Section 6 of the Terms of Service (TOS), ima/ipernity honors copyright, trademark, and intellectual property protection requirements as stipulated under French l…

Apologies for my doing this late. Below is the [EN] version of the IMA Newsflash c&p from the ima blog. French and German text can be found there as well ... www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4692248 [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) We are glad to inform you that we have found an external IT service provider for the maintenance and further development of our website. A priority kick-off meeting has already taken place. First and foremost are the security aspects, further cost-c…

Announcement regarding payments ... [EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! Some of you may have noticed that membership renewals via Skrill are not possible any more. We tried everything to keep this payment option. However on 3 January 2018 Skrill made the decision to terminate services with IMA without notice or reason. We believe the decision was made because of volume requirements. It is common that other customers of Skrill suffered the same inconveniences. We are now explor…

Another Latest Newsflash from the ima. [EN] version C&P from www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4690900 Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) We apologize that ipernity was temporarily unavailable last Saturday. A recently requested renewal of the website security certificate had not been executed technically. Resolving this problem in the early hours of a Saturday was a big challenge for the team but we succeeded and downtime was minimized. With regard to another dysfunction (concerning t…

{A c&p of the [EN] announcement / blog at https://www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4689202 } Against all odds A year-end message from the ima-Team It was in December 2016 when the founder and CEO of Ipernity S.A., Christophe Ruelle, announced the closing of the platform ipernity.com by end of January 2017. (1) It’s now the end of 2017 and ipernity is still online. What happened? Of course, members were scared, disappointed and started looking for alternatives to Ipernity. But true alte…

C&P of the [EN] version ... Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) We are glad to announce that we managed to implement the new Terms of Use before end of 2017. For details see here: www.ipernity.com/about/tos 2) Further we assigned responsibilities within the ima team to fulfill the tasks more efficiently. These are: Acting Executive Board: CEO (Chief Executive Officer) and President: Eric Desjours, France COO (Chief Operating Officer) William Sutherland, USA CFO (Chief Fina…

The latest newsflash ... full text here : www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4687248 and just the [EN] version C&P below ... Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) With respect to all comments concerning the scheduled frontpage redesign we present you a revised edition today. We tried to follow the majorities as well as we tried to respect the minorities. You'll find the release below. Furthermore we've created a group for the pictures, which you are invited to submit for the new frontpage.…

A day late in my C&P [EN] only - apologies. Full details to be found here : www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4686842 Dear Members and friends of Ipernity! On 8th of September - one week after the transfer of this website from ipernity S.A to ima - we've informed you that we would recheck the deadline for the acceptance of subscriptions, which have been made before Dec. 31st, 2016, if the site’s financial condition would allow it. Meanwhile we've evaluated the whole database of ipernity (wi…

Latest IMA Newsflash - 24th November 2017. full text here ... www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4685478 I have C&P the English text below. Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) As you know, our community received ipernity "as it is". With regard to the database it unfortunately consists a lot of spam and abandoned accounts. Nevertheless we have made good progress in removing a lot of them. This removals have no impact on the excellent content of ipernity that you have contributed. 2…