Dear members and friends of ipernity,

1. Help us select the best homepage pictures for the winter season!
Due to the great interest in the trial voting for the homepage pictures in July, voting is now offered again for the upcoming winter pictures. If you would like to take part, follow this link: Vote on the ipernity homepage pictures for this winter.

2. Improve the visibility of your pictures.
When browsing the gallery pictures using the Lightbox view, you may have noticed that about a quarter of all pictures are displayed rather small: The same effect occurs when you press Z to display pictures in full screen view. The affect is more pronounced the higher the resolution of the monitor is.

This rendering is not a malfunction of the Lightbox. The cause is rather that the members in question still have the maximum display quality set to the aged monitor standards SVGA (800 pixels) or XGA (1024 pixels) in their account settings.

As the minimum display standard nowadays is HD quality, we recommend that you set the display option to 'Up to 2048 if available' in your display quality options. This will show your content to its best advantage.

3. New Creation Techniques.
A month ago the DALL·E 2 website opened to the public presenting a new means of artistic expression. To create an image, all one has to do is type in a text entry of what is imagined. The artificial intelligence will generate four images based on over five billion images and terrabyes of data it used to “learn” how to create such images that are unique and do not infringe on copyright laws.

Note: Members who choose to use DALL·E 2 or another artificial intelligence program to create images should mention it when uploading them. At the same time, it must be noted that copyright laws have not caught up with this new technology and thus original works that are uploaded are not protected by copyrights. However, Ipernity will prohibit such images from being copied if the member has selected "All rights reserved".

4. Help ticket issue resolved.
An issue that had kept help tickets from reaching the team has been resolved. Only tickets that were written while not logged into an ipernity account were affected. All previously unseen help tickets have now received a reply. Unfortunately this issue was only discovered last month.

We apologize for any undue distress that was created because of a lack of response from the team.

In this context, we would like to refer once again to our last Club News of 21 October 2022, in which we introduced you to the new Ticket Reply Notification function under item 2.

5. Club News goes monthly.
Our Club News publication will now be monthly year round. Publication will fall on the first Friday of the month. In the case of extraordinary or special events, we will of course inform you promptly.

Your ima team