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3 April 2026 - Club News

nobody@ipernity.com (Team) — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:36:43 +0000

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Dear members and friends of ipernity,

1) Our annual general meeting was held 22 March 2026.

A big thank you to all the members who took the time to attend.

Summary of important changes voted into place:

1) Our Vice President is now Don Sutherland.

2) Our Treasurer, Corinne Pommerell, is re-elected.

3) Our Cash Auditor, Thomas Reck is re-elected.

4) Membership fees will now be listed only in euros - PayPal and banks used will do any currency adjustments needed.

The text box under 'Tier 2' says, If you can afford to, please select this higher price to help cover transaction fees. Thank you.

5) Membership fees are increased by 5%.

6) Voyeuristic images (images taken in a non-consensual voyeuristic manner that is degrading - obscuring their identity does not make it allowable) are no longer acceptable.

Our Statutes and Terms of Use have been updated with the changes.

The official record of the meeting is available as a pdf document here, being a copy of the IGA group discussion here.

Additionally for official record keeping, see attendees, and of the vote tallies.

See this page for links to various documents now available to everyone.

2) AI on ipernity.

It was felt that the IGA was not the place for a discussion on this matter.

However, since this is a topic that many have opinions about, we think it is important for the full membership to be able to have their say.

Therefore, a new group has been created, AI on ipernity - Discussion Group.

This will allow time for ideas to develop and for steps forward to be agreed upon.

Any suggested changes to ipernity resulting from a consensus reached in those discussions might be put to a future vote.

3) Are you surprised to have been made admin of a group?

When you receive notice that you have been automatically promoted to administrator of a group, that is the perfect time to help out the team with group clean-up.

Even if you don't want to continue as administrator, please take a moment to do the following:

1) View the group and it's current rules.

2) Check to see if the contributions are set to be moderated.

3) Check to see if contributions are staying on the topic/theme of the group.

4) See if the group is getting new suggestions/contributions (this can be seen on the group's home page using the [i] below the shown images?

5) Is the topic concise enough so that the group highlights a particular area of interest and isn't too general?

Once you know these things, you can make an informed decision about if you want to keep the group, have it passed on to someone else, or if you think it should be deleted.

a) If the group is good and you want to keep it, great! Thank you!

b) If you think it should be kept but passed onto someone else, then ask another group member to take the group on. You can then appoint them as administrator and then leave the group. If you can't find someone, then contact the ima Moderator for help.

c) If you think the group should be deleted, contact the ima Moderator as they can easily delete the group.

Please do not simply leave the group as the team will have no knowledge of the group and it will remain, making groups less effective.

Your ima team.

New Club Members - most recent

nobody@ipernity.com (Team) — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:14:58 +0000

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Reinhard Wulff

Corey Best ← publicly active

Gerold ← publicly active

Newell Reinvention ← publicly active

Peterderzweite ← publicly active

dacapo ← publicly active

Lucien Horne ← publicly active

Dieter Hermann ← publicly active

Gavin Johnson ← publicly active

Achim Werel ← publicly active

Willi Berto ← publicly active

Jose Torres Fernandez ← publicly active

A warm welcome to our newest club members!

Please visit their pages to personally welcome them and see what they bring to our community.

IGA 2026 - Candidatures for the Board

nobody@ipernity.com (Team) — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:25:28 +0000

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In reply to our call for candidatures for the mandates of Vice President and Treasurer, we have the following:

Don Sutherland - as Vice-President.

New to the role, here you can read about Don

Corinne Pommerell - as Treasurer.

Current incumbent, standing for re-election, (for a 1 year term only).

We look forward to the membership confirming these candidate at the IGA.

Your ima team

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IGA 2026 - Treasurer's Report on 2025

nobody@ipernity.com (Team) — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:18:42 +0000

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IGA2025 - Treasurer's report on 2025

Related Annual Financial Report 2025

IGA2025 - Rapport de la trésoriere sur l'année 2025

Rapport financier annuel 2025 correspondant

IGA2025 - Bericht der Schatzmeisterin über das Jahr 2025

Zugehöriger Finanzbericht 2025

IGA 2026 - Proposed increase to membership fees

nobody@ipernity.com (Team) — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:15:34 +0000

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5% Increase in Membership Fees

As is detailed in our Treasurer's report, due to inflation our income from membership fees no longer matches the costs. As William mentioned, we have managed to avoid fee increases while other sites have not, only needing a realignment in 2021 due to exchange rate changes.

With the uncertainty of membership levels and inflation, we think something in the 5 to 10% range is required. Of course it would be counter productive to propose a higher increase, and risk a decline in renewals offsetting any gains.

Therefore we propose only 5% at this time, to gauge the effect of the single currency amendment reducing the loss due to conversion fees on non-euro transactions. As well as a new feature on the renewal page for people to select a slightly higher fee to cover the bank and PayPal transaction fees, for those that are able to afford it.

We believe this is the route most likely to find broad acceptance, as well as being respectful of the varying ability of our members to afford the increase. We will be able to evaluate the effect of the different elements for the IGA next year.

IGA 2026 - Agenda

nobody@ipernity.com (Team) — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:35:04 +0000

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Agenda of the Ipernity General Assembly 2026 (IGA2026)

Ordre du jour de l'Assemblée Générale d'Ipernity 2026 (IGA2026)

Tagesordnung der Ipernity-Mitglieder-Generalversammlung 2026 (IGA2026)

IGA 2026 - Report of the President on 2025

nobody@ipernity.com (Team) — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:58:30 +0000

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IGA 2026 - Report of the President on 2025

Activity report on the year 2025

IGA 2026 - Rapport du Président sur l'année 2025

Rapport d'activité pour l'année 2025

IGA 2026 - Bericht des Präsidenten über das Jahr 2025

Tätigkeitsbericht über das abgelaufene Geschäftsjahr 2025

Proposed amendment to the statutes - IGA 2026

nobody@ipernity.com (Team) — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:19:33 +0000

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Regarding the intention to display and accept membership fees only in euros

This amendment will save ipernity money by avoiding the subtractions for currency conversion, before the amount eventually ends up in our account in euros. This will reduce the required increase of membership fees to balance the books this year. Any currency conversion fees, paid by those non-EU members will be at the exchange rate current at the time, rather than set for a whole year.

Shown below are the deletions and updates to the statutes. The first deletion regarding the other currencies is obvious given the above. This then leads to not needing to make updates to the membership fees for exchange fluctuation. The EUR-USD exchange rate is relevant because our association's money is held in EUR but our largest expense is for the AWS servers that are invoiced in USD. The section about pro-rata payments has never been feasible and would have been considered for deletion in any case.

ARTICLE V, Section 4 – Membership contribution: The amount of the membership contribution depends on the desired range of functions and storage space volume. It shall be set annually by the General Assembly of members for all options. The reference currency is the Euro. ~~The membership contribution amount in the other currencies (British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Swiss Franc and US-Dollar) is calculated according to official exchange rates in relation to the Euro.~~ In the event of large fluctuations in the EUR-USD exchange rates, the Board of the Association shall be entitled to make adjustments during the year. In the case of future membership contribution adjustments, the new (lower or higher) membership contributions shall apply indiscriminately to all full members from the date of the adjustment for the period thereafter. Any difference from the previous (paid in advance) membership contribution shall be calculated on a pro rata basis for the remaining period until the end of the full membership. These calculated differences shall either be refunded to the member by the Association or paid by the member to the Association in arrears. Alternatively, the association has the right to apply a time equivalent of the calculated difference to the remaining time until the end of the full membership.

About Don Sutherland

nobody@ipernity.com (Team) — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:00:43 +0000

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Don Sutherland works in higher education and pursues a parallel calling in photography as a way to observe and interpret the world. Guided by curiosity and attentiveness, he continually seeks out moments of beauty wherever they appear.

Don Sutherland, March 2026

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Acitve member of the club since 2013.

Open Mandates for 2026

nobody@ipernity.com (Team) — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:53:33 +0000

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For other languages: ipernity members may use the integrated translator at the end of this article.

(Visitors: Please use DeepL Translator or install an add-on that suits your browser.)

Dear members and friends of ipernity,

For IGA 2026 the mandates for Vice President and for Treasurer are up for election. We have Corinne Pommerell willing to stand for re-election as Treasurer and Don Sutherland as VP.

Important - Executive Assistants needed

Anyone interested in supporting any of the mandates as an assistant is welcome to let us know. Know that being an extra pair of hands at whatever tasks, would be appreciated by the current four board members.

Our current treasurer is willing to stand for election, but only for one year as she will be moving on to other projects away from ipernity at that time. She would prefer to step down sooner, but is kindly remaining so we can find a replacement.

This means that at this time, in addition to the mandates, any club member who is an EU citizen who is unsure but might consider standing for treasurer next year should please come forward so they can be considered for an executive assistant position and shadow Corinne for as long is needed. We could easily use two such executive assistants. Executive assistants are appointed by the team member they would be supporting.

Please notify the team if you are such a club member, or if you know of some such member who might be interested and the team will reach out to them.

The Vice President organises the internal and external communication and public relations. This person coordinates all activities to promote our website in appropriate media, helping to ensure that our community has a sufficient influx of new club members. In detail, the duties of the Vice President.

The Treasurer draws up and monitors the annual budget, creates quarterly and annual reports and creates forecasts. They handle the manual membership renewals. Further details can be found in the ipernity statutes, Article VII. Section C.

Note, the Treasurer must be an EU citizen.

Data Protection Officer. While not a position on the board, some of the duties of a DPO are important in helping to operate ipernity. But as the duties and legal responsibilities are onerous if the job is taken seriously, we are not looking for a volunteer. Noting that having one is not a requirement for ipernity.

We invite loyal and active club members who feel a part of our community and who care about the future of ipernity to make themselves know to us at any time.

Take this opportunity to shape ipernity's future together with us.

Being on the board as well as being an advisor is a rewarding adventure, so please contact us now.

Your ima team

6 March 2026 - Club News

nobody@ipernity.com (Team) — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:57:14 +0000

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Dear members and friends of ipernity,

1) Ipernity General Assembly (IGA 2026).

Details can be read in the formal announcement.

2) New group feature, 'View your content'.

The initial reason for adding this was to help a member decide whether to add an image to the suggested group. This is when visiting the group from a 'visit/add' link as a non-member, but having content in it. However, the feature as released is available to any viewer, member or not, with content in the group. A link with a content tally is on the group home page, and the drop-down menu from the 'Contributions' menu item.

3) New uploads grouped.

Members are permitted to upload more than a handful of images at a time. This can result in the 'Explore->New uploads' having one or more pages of content all by one person. Depending on the viewer and their interests this may be more or less irritating.

Not wishing to impose a limit on the number of uploads by a member in a session, when it is only an issue for some of those viewing 'New uploads'. Instead, the solution provided is an additional menu option that shows only one image per member, with a count of the new content. As with 'Your contacts: what's new?', a link allows you to choose who's content to visit.

4) In memoria.

It is with great sadness that we let you know our long time member DOMCHO passed away on 7 February 2026. Condolences and comments can be made on their in memoria page.

Your ima team.

Regarding voyeuristic material on ipernity: A motion for the 2026 IGA

nobody@ipernity.com (Team) — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:55:27 +0000

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I submit the following addition (in red) to 3.4c of our Terms of Use:

...; contents prohibited by law or infringing rights of third parties; contents presenting people in a probably non-consensual voyeuristic manner that is degrading (obscuring their identity does not make it allowable); violation of the authority...

A new line item 3.5 to be inserted, while existing 3.5 and 3.6 are renumbered.

3.5 Depending on the severity of any violation, the number of violations, or the repetition of them over time, actions taken will range from requiring content to be made private, content to be deleted, temporary suspension of an account preventing access, or the total removal of the account. Actions taken will be on a case by case basis, with the member being contacted as deemed appropriate.

Boarischa Krautmo 24 Feburary 2026

Ipernity General Assembly (IGA 2026)

nobody@ipernity.com (Team) — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:24:45 +0000

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The IGA 2026 will take place on Sunday, 22nd March 2026, 5pm Paris (16:00 UTC).

Please check the correct time in your country, perhaps with this Your time zone

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We encourage all full club members to attend.

▶️ Follow this link to the sign up procedure. The verification of your identity is only necessary, if you are participating for the first time. Otherwise, we only require an ipermail to ima moderator indicating your intention to attend. You must sign up by 18th March 2026 in order to attend. Please add Team to your contact list so we can send you an invitation to the group where the general meeting is conducted.

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This year we have 3 mandates up for election:

Vice President, Treasurer and Cash Auditor.

In addition, we need someone to be our second Auditor/Data Protection Officer.

The Vice President organises the internal and external communication and public relations. This person coordinates all activities to promote our website in appropriate media, helping to ensure that our community has a sufficient influx of new club members. In detail, the duties of the Vice President.

The Treasurer draws up and monitors the annual budget, creates quarterly and annual reports and creates forecasts.They handle the manual membership renewals. Further details can be found in the ipernity statutes, Article VII. Section C.

An Auditor is responsible for certifying the annual financial report compiled by the Treasurer prior to an Ipernity General Assembly.

These mandates are crucial to the continued operation of the association and the website.

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We invite loyal and active club members who have been part of our community for at least a year and who care about the future of ipernity and who are over 21 years of age to come forward to stand for election for a mandate position. The deadline for application is 8th March 2026. Take this opportunity to shape ipernity's future.

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If you have an item you want considered for the IGA agenda, please contact the board by 8th March 2026.

Contact the board now with any questions and to request to stand for election.

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Note: As used last year, the voting method will again be with PollUnit. See How to vote to check it out in advance.

6 February 2026 - Club News

nobody@ipernity.com (Team) — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:54:02 +0000

Team has posted an article:

Dear members and friends of ipernity,

1) Unwanted phishing emails.

Further to the precaution of putting up a warning in our top banner, the policy on ipermails for new members has been revised. From the previous limit of 10 different recipients allowed per day for the first week, it is now far more restrictive to impact the scammers, while data shows that this should not affect honest new members.

2) Upcoming Ipernity General Assembly. First, a date for your diary, if you are able to plan around it. Sunday 22 March 2026, chosen to avoid the adjustment to clocks in both Europe and America.

Second, Andreas is stepping down from the role as Vice President. We'd like to take this moment to thank him for his support of ipernity including the booth at the in-person photography event.

Anyone interested in standing for election at the IGA can contact the team. You can read about what the job entails here.

Your ima team.

Real World Meetings

nobody@ipernity.com (Team) — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:14:37 +0000

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2 January 2026

nobody@ipernity.com (Team) — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:28:25 +0000

Team has posted an article:

Dear members and friends of ipernity,

Happy New Year! Let's work together to have a joyful and healthy 2026.

1) Images suggested for groups.

We would love to hear from the membership with any thoughts and ideas on the initial roll-out of the following revision.

With the effort to clean up groups, it has been noted that groups often have images that do not fit the group's theme/topic. This is more prevalent in groups where images are added without being checked by an administrator. It is so easy to click 'add' when your photo is suggested for a group. Without some additional effort you don't even have to understand the title of the group or need to read the description or rules of a group before accepting the suggestion.

To address this issue, if you do not belong to the group being suggested, an extra step now requires that you view the group before the suggested image can be added. Such a group will be listed in italics and instead of the ‘add’ option, a ‘visit/add’ option will be shown. Visiting the group will let you see the recent contributions and allow you to read the description. Being on the group home page will of course provide the option to join the group, while it now also provides the option to add the suggested image.

2) Basic caution around ipermails and sharing private information.

Sadly (but rarely) a new user of our website will start sending inappropriate messages before we can delete their account. We also tend to err on the side of trust. So sometimes we wait to see if the website use is truely inappropriate or just ill-advised through ignorance. Because of this, please use caution in your communications with new members through ipermail.

We recommend never sharing private email addresses, especially since you can use ipermail without worry about your personal accounts being compromised.

Your ima team.

5 December 2025 - Club News

nobody@ipernity.com (Team) — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:16:26 +0000

Team has posted an article:

Dear members and friends of ipernity,

We wish this holiday season brings you and your loved ones many moments of joy.

1) Confirmation of remove/delete action.

Following a report by a member of an unexpected deletion of an image, we did not find any bug in the system to explain it. However, the confirmation prompt shown after clicking the [x] for 'Delete this photo' did have 'OK' as the default. Meaning that an accidental second click or hitting [enter] would confirm the deletion. So, the places where this confirmation method was used have been revised to match the version used elsewhere, which requires a positive mouse movement to click on the 'Delete' button.

2) Dark colour theme.

If you are interested in a dark colour theme for ipernity, where the text colours are adjusted for legibility, and not just the background colour of the present system, you can take a look at this style modifier created by one of our newer members.

Brief instructions for the UserStyles.world page:

First click 'Get Stylus', scroll down to 'Releases' to use either 'Chrome Web Store' [for Edge too] or 'Mozilla Addons', and click 'Add to...'.

Only then click 'Install'. The gradient colour can be adjusted later and relates to your personalised colour setting.

On the left, select 'Dark' mode, click 'Install style', and finally 'Manage'.

You can subsequently use the 'Manage extensions' option in your browser to turn Stylus off or on, and activate or turn off the listed ipernity.com via the check box.

Your ima team.

7 November 2025 - Club News

nobody@ipernity.com (Team) — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:55:13 +0000

Team has posted an article:

Dear members and friends of ipernity,

As the seasons change we're grateful for our wonderful community and our continuing working website. We hope the new season brings great art and beauty to each of us. Thank you all for contributing to our modest and advert free place on the web.

1) Group search feature.

It was noticed that the Search feature for groups only looked at the title. This update adds the option of including the group description in the search. This is a benefit both for when looking for ones in your area of interest, or when checking what exists before creating a new group.

You have been able to search all public groups on title, or within the contributions or discussions of one of the groups you were a member of. Now you can also look across all the groups of which you are a member. Members who have joined many groups may find this of more use than others.

When looking at the initial overview of say photos or articles there is a search box. This is now also the case for groups which was previously the only area where you had to use the top search box.

Previously only the default search inputs were displayed, but now the additional options are always shown. This simplifies the interface, and makes clear the criteria being used for the search.

2) Group administration.

We would like to thank those members who have volunteered to take over groups that they have found, 'lacking attention' shall we say. Such requests are best done via a Help ticket.

3) Overload and error messages.

Based on the experience of the past couple of months, it does appear that we have weathered the storm. Perhaps the harvesting AI tools have had their fill, or learnt to be less intrusive. So we have avoided going to the effort and the expense of implementing protection from a professional source.

Your ima team.

3 October 2025 - Club News

nobody@ipernity.com (Team) — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:31:56 +0000

Team has posted an article:

Dear members and friends of ipernity,

1) Photon festival.

We have started an experiment. From September 5 to 7, 2025, we had a booth at the PHOTON Photography Festival in Illingen / Saar, Germany, where we promoted Ipernity.

Thanks to Bernhard (Bergfex), who traveled from Austria especially for this event, we were able to talk to visitors at the festival and raise awareness of Ipernity. We'll have to wait and see if this will be reflected in the membership numbers.

We also learned that this approach is enjoyable because we were able to talk to people about Ipernity in person. And we realized that such an appearance can be improved and expanded. If we get another opportunity like this, we will repeat it.

2) New access to favorites.

When you have been viewing the content of another member, have you wondered which, if any you may have given a star to? The new link in the drop-down allows you to do this. If the tally is zero, the link is not active. It does what you would otherwise have had to do from your own page of 'Favorites', finding their name in the list.

3) Extended options under Explore->New.

While you may find new articles or groups by those members that you follow, these additional options enable you to search across the whole of ipernity.

Your ima team.

5 September 2025 - Club News

nobody@ipernity.com (Team) — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:49:54 +0000

Team has posted an article:

Dear members and friends of ipernity,

1) Facelift for videos.

If you recall when the Adobe Flash Player was disbanded, the use of the HTML5 'video' tag was implemented. But the coding provided by 'Share' under the 'Actions' menu was not updated from using the iframe tag. This has been rectified, for audio files too, so that they can be included in comments, image descriptions, and articles.

Also, they can now be played within the medium and large size multiple item display pages. As a click on a video will now play it, a button has been added to open the single image page.

2) Server overload update.

Currently our servers are running as expected for the majority of the time. Overloads due to activity outside of our membership continue to happen randomly. Only some of these overloads are creating slow loading of pages and error messages. As we continue to search for a more permanent way to mitigate the effect, if we find a major overload occurring we may bring the servers down for 30 minutes at a time. We ask for your patience with this.

Investigation continues into using Cloudflare services. This is proving more difficult than expected, partly due to lack of efficient customer support from Cloudflare. If anyone has experience with Cloudflare, please reach out to the team.

3) World Photography Day.

Wow - It's a world record for World Photography Day! (Well, Club record anyway.) We had 81 participants in this year's event, 9 more than last year!

A wonderful wide range of types of photos were contributed. From the inside of a dryer (partical accelerator!) to collections of cameras to the beauty of light across mountains. Lots of interesting conversations have happened, prompted by the photos, the photo descriptions, and the questions from the people who have come and viewed the event.

Check out the group to see the results here: World Photography Day.

Join the group if you would like to receive a reminder about next year's event, and notes about any changes to its running.

Your ima team.