My friends,
ipernity isn't working for me any more. The place has turned from buzzing with excitement when all the flickr refugees came over in 2013 into a ghost town with little activity. Most of the flickr refugees that I knew have left ipernity. Most went back to flickr, some simply disappeared over time. I lost a lot of good contacts this way. And then some people simply stopped coming over and comment for reasons unknown to me.
An additional problem for me is that I detest banners and graphics, groups promotions and canned comments and so I stay away from the whole Explore hunting, cross-polination clique that is here. The same cliques exist at flickr of course, but that community is big enough to avoid them, ipernity is far too small for that. And so I am leaving. My only regret is that leaving ipernity also means saying goodbye to the few contacts with whom I have the kind of relationship that I'm after in such a community (you know who you are!).
I'm going back to flickr. I still loath Yahoo and I still loath what they did to flickr but I see no other alternative. And of course my old contacts are still there and hopefully they will welcome me back. I look forward to seeing them again.
I discovered yesterday that when you end your ipernity club membership, you are given access only to the last 200 uploads! If you want full access again, you need to take a new club membership. Well, I think not, and so I have deleted most of my images and left only a handful; they're mostly images of which I need to keep the link alive. I am therefore not deleting my account, it's going to be dormant is all.
I want to thank the few faithful contacts that I have left here for their ongoing encouragement and support. I will miss you.
Levina
p.s.: I'm in the process of reactivating my flickr account. It's here:
www.flickr.com/photos/levina_de_ruijter
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2 comments
Jim Boynton said:
I agree that the site has become quite stagnant lately except for the cliques you mentioned. The funny thing is that all ipernity had to do to stop links and group graphics was to exclude any posts with such in their comments from Explore. A simple? change to the algorithm and voila...no more graphics etc.
I absolutely loved Flickr and only came here after the change since my laptop wouldn't run it anymore. It has gotten better, but I just hate the look of it now. I feel that the inability to add randoms below the main post and notes inside the main photo is a major concern to me. Not to mention the stupid, moronic, imbecilic, idiotic auto-tag feature they now have. My girls don't appreciate being tagged as dogs...LOL!
But my iPad runs Flickr smoothly oddly enough so maybe in the future...who knows. I had a lot more contacts over there so I would have to pare that number down drastically since I just don't have the time I used to have. I will quickly visit you and make you a contact so that I can find you easily if I return. I go by WJB1961 over there, but don't expect anything good in my stream since I didn't have my Canon then. I cringe when I look at my old stuff.
And that is something I have to thank you for! You have given me some great advice such as getting down to the subjects level and the recent 4 a.m. pointer...that will take a considerable effort on my part. Now when I view my old stuff (ignoring the subpar gear) I see where I could have done it better. And just the fact that a photographer of your caliber would take an interest in my work gave me more than enough reason to keep shooting. That means a lot!
You will be dearly missed here Levina, but maybe our paths may cross again. Good luck wherever you end up and keep shooting.
Jim
Levina de Ruijter replied to Jim Boynton:
I will miss our conversations, that's for sure.
Keep shooting!
L. xx