Huhu? Anybody being around here?

I have been here for 14 months as a Club member, things do at times seem to "Hybernate" but why this is I have no idea. I can only say that it was exactly the same at my previous "Cyber home" Multiply which changed to an Online shopping site in S E Asia, then went down the Tubes hence my arrival here.

John.

Well, you should be found your home - I was at ipernity since 2007 and I suggest they won´t switch to an asian shoppingsite. ;-) They changed sometimes a few things, sometimes (one time since 2007) their complete layout - but being all the time a file - community and I will hope they don´t plan to change at least that they are. ;-)

Hi! Just been here a few months, full club member too. Was at F***r since 2007, and just don't like the way it looks and feels now. The clean look here (quite like the old F***r) is good and easy to navigate. Yes, it's a bit quiet now and then. But, the few comments I get are "on topic" and provide useful feedback to me. It doesn't matter if you have 10 comments or 1000 comments, it's the quality that counts! The groups are little hard to find, but as time goes on more are getting added and are providing a good range of platforms for exposure.

Hopefully this site will grow to become a community who love to take and show off their photographs. Yes, there are other more "professional" sites who sort of promise exposure to professional comments/critiques. But, I like that fact that there are people here who are mainly amateurs but still take REALY GREAT photographs. If they have a good eye for their shots, then they are more than qualified to comment on mine.

Rob.

Hi Rob, you make a good statement. A few parts which I would like to comment:

But, the few comments I get are "on topic" and provide useful feedback to me.

This was, indeed, a good reason to stay here, and I copy it. It might be the case that you got more views and maybe even more comments "beside", but that´s not the point. Well, of course I like it when my art was viewn, and I even like it to get a little bit of response, but what you had written is way more important to me, too: To get _useful_ feedback. It might be nice if you creep someone's ass (to get comments like "Oh, nice one" or "Good photo"), but - well, sometimes I don´t even think that a photo was nice at all (but I upload it anyway, sometimes even without a notice I don´t like it this way), and I even got feedbacks. Sometimes they are a little bit full of sarcasm, but sometimes anybody point in the right direction and asking why I did it this and not the other way. Or give me some hints how I can do it in a "more professional way", do it better, or just other, to get nice results. And in my case it´s OK to get always "negative comments" under a photo if somebody dislike it (but they should be constructive)- well, at flickr I was blocked for this kind of comments quite often, this wasn´t the case here (or I don´t see it). It seems like "there" was the "sunny way of life", at ipernity it´s more the real one which I prefer. ;-)

Another point:

The groups are little hard to find, but as time goes on more are getting added and are providing a good range of platforms for exposure.

Yes, at first they are harder to find - but over the years I got a pool which reflects my interests. It´s nice to browse through others documents and see in which groups they are belonging. Sometimes I prefer just to browse through the list of groups a member of ipernity is belonging to- which was way more fun here because at flickr just the names of the group are displaying at the group-overview of other members - this would help sometimes, but sometimes not (if the name of the group is more "literally" than speaky).
So, well, everyone would find his groups - they are here for around six years so the "most ones" are already here - and if not it´s just a few minutes away (and if you promote it f.e. in www.ipernity.com/group/groupiperdirectory it´s easy for others to find it - or just write an blogentry about it (a feature flickr not even have).