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Dear members and friends of ipernity!
1) The ipernity advertising group, in which we are bundling future advertising activities for our club, now has 60 members. We are pleased about the great interest and active participation.
2) The list of photo bloggers, which belongs to this group, already has 45 entries. If you know other photo bloggers, add them please. You are welcome to contact the bloggers in your own individual way to draw attention to ipernity. It's preferable that such information does not originate from the ima team but from ipernity users.
3) A club member has produced two advertising videos for YouTube: ipernity-it "Mostraci le tue foto" and ipernity-de "Zeig uns Deine Bilder". To upload such videos to YouTube, we have set up the channel ipernity photo club there as a service. If you subscribe to this channel, you will be informed automatically about further uploads in the future.
4) In view of the second wave of infection worldwide, the Covid 19 Committee has made the following decision: “Due to the current circumstances, the Covid-19 help offer is extended through May 1, 2021. It has had some use, but this has kept well within the financial reserves of the donations. Thanks again to those who donated to this fund.”
5) The FAQ Working Group has made some updates to the FAQ. Chapters 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1 and 6.2 are affected. If you notice inconsistencies in other chapters or if you feel the need for further important explanations, you can report this directly to the working group.
6) In the meantime we have also further improved our website: The layout of the ‘groups’ pages was adapted to the modernized layout of the photo pages and the albums. This means the new display options are also available for the ‘groups’ pages. Because there were no inquiries, we assume that you are satisfied with it. There have also been improvements in functionality:
● It is now possible to display the contributions of individual group members selectively: Go to the menu item 'Members'. Next to each member's avatar a mosaic symbol appears, as well as the number of contributions of the member in this group. By clicking on the mosaic symbol, you will only see the contributions of this member. (Above the thumbnails you can choose whether you want to return to the members list or to the display all contributions of the group).
● In the left side menu panel of the display of group members there is now an additional option "Members who left".
● In the picture presentation, the filter options below the film strip (top right) have been improved. Now the group you are in is always mentioned there, while the title of the photo is shown above the photo. (This was not the case before.) Below that you can filter whether you only want to see your own contributions or those of all members.
● These improved filtering options are also available when you select a keyword via "Explore / Keywords".
● In the left side menu panel of the display of group members there is now an additional option "Members who left".
● In the picture presentation, the filter options below the film strip (top right) have been improved. Now the group you are in is always mentioned there, while the title of the photo is shown above the photo. (This was not the case before.) Below that you can filter whether you only want to see your own contributions or those of all members.
● These improved filtering options are also available when you select a keyword via "Explore / Keywords".
Your ima team
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Chers membres et amis d'ipernity !
1) Le groupe de promotion d'ipernity, dans lequel nous réunissons les futures activités publicitaires de notre club, compte aujourd'hui 63 membres. Nous nous réjouissons du grand intérêt et de la participation active de nos membres.
2) La liste des photo-bloggers, qui appartient à ce groupe, compte déjà 45 entrées. Si vous connaissez d'autres photo-blogueurs, ajoutez-les s'il vous plaît. Vous pouvez contacter les blogueurs à votre manière pour attirer l'attention sur ipernity. Il est préférable que ces informations ne proviennent pas de l'équipe ima mais des utilisateurs d'ipernity.
3) Un membre du club a produit deux vidéos publicitaires pour YouTube : ipernity-it "Mostraci le tue foto" et ipernity-de "Zeig uns Deine Bilder". Pour télécharger de telles vidéos sur YouTube, nous y avons mis en place de la chaîne ipernity photo club en tant que service. Si vous vous abonnez à ce canal, vous serez automatiquement informé des prochains téléchargements.
4) Compte tenu de la deuxième vague d'infection dans le monde, le comité Covid 19 a pris la décision suivante : "En raison des circonstances actuelles, l'offre d'aide Covid-19 est prolongée jusqu'au 1er mai 2021. Elle a eu une certaine utilité, mais elle est restée dans les limites des réserves financières des dons. Merci encore à ceux qui ont fait des dons à ce fonds".
5) Le groupe de rédaction de la FAQ a procédé à quelques mises à jour de la FAQ. Les chapitres 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1 et 6.2 sont affectés. Si vous remarquez des incohérences dans d'autres chapitres ou si vous ressentez le besoin de fournir des explications supplémentaires importantes, vous pouvez le signaler directement au groupe de travail.
6) Dans l'intervalle, nous avons également continué à améliorer notre site web : La présentation des pages "groupes" a été adaptée à la présentation modernisée des pages photos et des albums. Cela signifie que les nouvelles options d'affichage sont également disponibles pour les pages "groupes". Comme il n'y a pas eu de demandes de renseignements, nous supposons que vous en êtes satisfait. La fonctionnalité a également été améliorée :
● Il est désormais possible d'afficher les contributions de chaque membre du groupe de manière sélective : Allez dans le menu "Membres". À côté de l'avatar de chaque membre, un symbole de mosaïque apparaît, ainsi que le nombre de contributions du membre dans ce groupe. En cliquant sur le symbole de la mosaïque, vous ne verrez que les contributions de ce membre. (Au-dessus des vignettes, vous pouvez choisir de revenir à la liste des membres ou d'afficher toutes les contributions du groupe).
● Dans le panneau de menu latéral gauche de l'affichage des membres du groupe, il y a maintenant une option supplémentaire "Membres qui ont quitté".
● Dans la présentation des images, les options de filtrage sous la bande de film (en haut à droite) ont été améliorées. Désormais, le groupe dans lequel vous vous trouvez est toujours mentionné à cet endroit, tandis que le titre de la photo est affiché au-dessus du photo. (Ce n'était pas le cas auparavant.) En dessous, vous pouvez filtrer si vous voulez seulement voir vos propres contributions ou celles de tous les membres.
● Ces options de filtrage améliorées sont également disponibles lorsque vous sélectionnez un mot-clé via "Explorer / Mots-clés".
Votre équipe ima
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Liebe Mitglieder und Freunde von ipernity!
1) Die Gruppe ipernity Werbemaßnahmen, in der wir zukünftige Werbeaktivitäten für unseren Club bündeln, hat inzwischen 60 Mitglieder. Wir freuen uns über das grosse Interesse und die rege Teilnahme.
2) Die Liste der Fotoblogger, die zu dieser Gruppe gehört, hat bereits 45 Einträge. Wenn ihr weitere Fotoblogger kennt, fügt Sie sie bitte hinzu. Gern könnt ihr mit den Bloggern auf eure individuelle Weise in Kontakt gehen, um auf ipernity aufmerksam zu machen. Denn es ist vorteilhafter, wenn solche Hinweise nicht vom ima-Team kommen, sondern von ipernity-Nutzern.
3) Ein Clubmitglied hat zwei Werbevideos für YouTube produziert: ipernity-it "Mostraci le tue foto" und ipernity-de "Zeig uns Deine Bilder". Um solche Videos zu YouTube hochzuladen, haben wir dort den Kanal ipernity photo club eingerichtet. Wenn ihr diesen Kanal abonniert, werdet ihr zukünftig automatisch über weitere Uploads informiert.
4) Angesichts der zweiten weltweiten Infektionswelle hat das Covid-19-Kommitee folgende Entscheidung getroffen: "Aufgrund der aktuellen Umstände wird das Covid-19-Unterstützungsangebot bis zum 1. Mai 2021 verlängert. Zwar wurde davon schon Gebrauch gemacht, aber die Spendengelder sind bei weitem nicht ausgeschöpft. Nochmals vielen Dank an alle, die für diesen Fondsgespendet haben".
5) Die FAQ-Arbeitsgruppe hat einige Aktualisierungen der FAQ vorgenommen. Betroffen sind die Kapitel 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1 und 6.2. Wenn ihr in anderen Kapiteln Unstimmigkeiten bemerkt, oder Bedarf an weiteren wichtigen Erläuterungen erkennt, könnt ihr dies direkt der Arbeitsgruppe melden.
6) In der Zwischenzeit haben wir auch unsere Website weiter verbessert: Das Layout der "Gruppen"-Seiten wurde an das modernisierte Layout der Fotoseiten und der Alben angepasst. Die Display-Optionen stehen jetzt auch für die "Gruppen"-Seiten zur Verfügung. Auch die Funktionalität wurde verbessert:
● In einer Gruppe kann man jetzt selektiv die Beiträge einzelner Mitglieder anschauen: Geh auf den Menüpunkt "Mitglieder". Neben dem Avatar jedes Mitglieds erscheint ein Mosaik-Symbol, sowie die Anzahl der Beiträge des Mitglieds in dieser Gruppe. Wenn Du auf das Mosaiksymbol klickst, siehst Du nur die Beiträge dieses Mitglieds. (Oberhalb der Beiträge kannst Du wählen, ob Du zur Mitgliederliste oder zum Gesamtüberblick der Gruppenbeiträge zurückkehren möchtest.)
● Im linksseitigen Menü-Panel der Verwaltung der Gruppenmitglieder gibt es nun die zusätzliche Option "Ausgeschiedene Mitglieder".
● Bei der Foto-Präsentation wurden die Filtermöglichkeiten unterhalb des Filmstreifens (rechts oben) verbessert. Dort wird jetzt immer die Gruppe genannt, in der Du gerade bist, während über dem Foto dessen Titel steht. (Dies war bisher nicht so.) Darunter kannst Du filtern, ob Du nur Deine Beiträge sehen möchtest, oder die aller Mitglieder.
● Diese verbesserten Filtermöglichkeiten gibt es auch, wenn Du über "Entdecken / Stichworte" nach einem Stichwort selektierst.
Euer ima-Team
The ipernity layout was developed 2012/13. At that time, 66% of all users surfed with display widths of 1024 to 1440 pixels in 4:3 format. For this target group, ipernity was coded on the basis of PHP 5.2 and then no longer maintained.
In September 2017, we members took it over just as it was: with debts and an immense innovation backlog. Without trained programmers, the ima team managed to make many
improvements with endless enthusiasm. Partly even an adaptive design could be realized.
Let's take a look at the progress in a short flashback. This is what we got 2017:
And here we are today (laptop screenshot, made with 'Fireshot', screen resolution 1680 x 1025). No agency pictures any more, but authentic pictures of members. The design is tidy in modern dual tone mode. Not modernistic, but top modern. Reduced to the essentials:
If you open 'Explore', you still see the former 4:3 design. But the blindingly bright side edges are covered by the 'ipernity colour':
This is a well-established method, used even by the most famous German weekly newspaper, Die Zeit. The German Railway does it as well as the Austrian Railway or the German "Tagesschau". So it is anything but amateurish. All three companies are highly professional and have excellent apps in use. But they don't go along with every modernist nonsense.
There are two reasons why we changed the colour of the margins from medium grey to blue during the design process:
1) The chosen blue has been part of the ipernity logo for 7 years. It therefore has trademark character.
2) Blue stands for seriousness. In TV it is always used when this emotion is to be triggered. Therefore, it is the first choice for news programmes (German Tagesschau, Austrian "Zeit im Bild", RTL-aktuell, etc).
Since Ipernity is not aimed at a hip youth culture, but at older, serious photo enthusiasts, blue is just what we need. The 60+ generation has the money that the younger ones don't have. Every third euro is spent by senior citizens. Senior citizens face the challenge of filling the void when the children are out of the house and the career path is over. This is our target group, not the TikTok generation
Now let's step on and have a look at the Gallery (formerly 'What's hot'):
Not spectacular. The difference only becomes clear when you look at the old version. Here the Swedish version, which is our internally reference:
We really don't have to comment on this mess, do we?
Nothing has been changed on the front pages of the member accounts. But we now present them consistently with margins in the ipernity colour. This is a kind of trademark. It also dazzles less than the bright white
For comparison the old style. The bright white hurts the eyes. All browsers now offer a dark mode. Paper white was yesterday.
If you click into the portfolio, it is now tidy and clearly arranged:
For comparison have a look to the former version. Does anybody really want it back?
If you don't like the arrangement of the picture explanations below the thumbnails, you can arrange them as you like. This has never existed before and no competitor has it either.
As a club member you can choose a widescreen option and any colour you like. You can choose the presentation form with slide frames, as known from Lightroom:
The fans of dark screens can also adjust it to suit themselves, with any colour and tint possible. This makes ipernity rather modern. We were even on the starting line with it before facebook which introduced the dark mode only three months ago!
If you prefer something more subtle, choose the very delicate frames or leave them out altogether. The option is still available.
Overall, we are on a very good path.
Much less spectacularly another team has revised the complete FAQ. At this point, a big thank you to the comrades-in-arms for the hundreds of hours to create everything from scratch, consistently in seven languages. Because the FAQ is invisible in the shadows most of the time. Therefore we have to praise the team here really publicly. It was a masterpiece!
Together with all the other work, thousands of working hours have gone into this members' project. This is seen and recognised by many. What we lack in money, we make up for in commitment.
But we have limits. Currently the biggest limit is called PHP 5.4.45 (built: Sep 11 2015 21:23:18). This is the version with which ipernity is currently running. This is why many features that are desirable in themselves are not feasible, and why we cannot offer a credit card payment option. All payment service providers require PHP 7 nowadays.
Unfortunately this also blocks our way to the Amazon RDS, which would be a much cheaper, low-maintenance and modern relational database. With PHP 7 and RDS, ipernity would be twice as fast, but half as expensive. Unfortunately it remains a dream until the reprogramming
Nevertheless: The ima team is convinced that with the improvements described above we no longer need to hide. If we still had the layout from 2017, it would only be embarrassing.
But now we can finally take the next step: Go out into the world and show ourselves. Because everything described above has been Branding only. Now we are ready to start some kind of Marketing. We really no longer have to be ashamed
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