Ipernity has proved to be a welcome safe haven in the face of what, at one stage, looked like the implosion of Flickr. However, it has remained impossibly dull. No-one, no refugee at least, wanted it to become what Flickr had but the migrants had at least the benefit of seeing what works and what does not - although opinions on which features fit those categories will vary.
For some reason, pictures on ipernity seem to get very little exposure even when added to the modest number of groups. I am grateful to my friend Rhisiart Hincks for doing as much as anyone to stimulate groups and their usage but I wonder if anyone else has any ideas.
I think there are small but important elements of usability that ipernity could improve such as batch organise and creating a memory in the map so it always goes back to where you last were. Any thoughts either of you?
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Don Barrett (aka DBs… said:
The low viewing on Ipernity has been a concern, though viewing of my photos does seem to be creeping up in the past year -- though going from 8 having seen a photo to 20 isn't comparable at all to the 50 a day on Flickr. One change that does seem to have happened is an increase in 'group' related activity on Ipernity, though groups remain a problem on Ipernity since there are too many groups where the moderators have disappeared.
There are probably some format changes that Ipernity could do to increase viewing, but I suspect the main issue is marketing to a viewing audience -- many hits on Flickr seemed to come from how Flickr photos ended up coming up in searches.
I'm not sure how much I really want to see Ipernity develop a more market-oriented approach. One of the great pleasures of Ipernity, for me, is the seeming 'intimacy' with other users that we have. Since my photography is about political and social activism, I've come to a solution where Ipernity is where I have the discussions about both politics and photography that are essential for having a sense of community, while I'm posting a subset of photos on Flickr to gain the broader messaging that is part of activism. I've an article on here about that: www.ipernity.com/blog/donbrr/785251
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