Dear members and friends of ipernity,

1) Let's get up and dance!
Request for music suggestions for the winter slideshow uploaded to YouTube.
There was feedback that the music chosen for the autumn slideshow was too melancholic. For the winter, 'Chris de Burgh / When Winter Comes' is envisaged.

Do you have a better idea? Make your suggestions in a comment below.

Note: Proposals need to be instrumental music of about 3 minutes duration. The music should be accompanying music in the background, and not dominate the pictures. They must either be copyright-free or licensed for use on YouTube.

2) Easier access to help tickets and responses.

You may have noticed a new icon in the upper right of our webpages. The question mark is a new link to our Help & Contact page where you can contact the team and see the status of your help requests (ticket status).

Also, when you do have an unread reply to your help request, you will now see a red exclamation mark on that question mark icon.

Further, it was recently discovered that some Help & Contact tickets, created when user was not logged into an ipernity account, were not reaching the team moderator. This has been corrected and the team moderator is working to reply to those old tickets. We hope for your patience.

3) Interruptions on our website.
We have unfortunately had two short offline periods, each lasting about an hour. This has been due to a script that no longer works which unfortunately caused a disk partition on one of our database servers to fill up. We would like to apologise for this. We hoped the underlying problem would be resolved by now but a permanent solution is still in progress.

We take this opportunity to remind everyone that in the case of any significant offline time, our official notices about ipernity website status can be found at twitter.com/ipernity. One does NOT have to have an account with twitter to see these notices.

Some people have noticed a longer delay than expected in the appearance of new photos on the Explore/New page. After investigations we have not been able to find anything wrong or a cause. We are, however, taking these observations into account and will consider them as we continue to deal with the current server problem.

4) Are the changing seasons inspiring your photography?

Inside or out, seasonal changes can bring dramatic lighting. Storm clouds can play against sunny skies. Shadows lengthen subjects near windows. Photography is all about light. Let the changes of this time of year open your eyes to new possibilities in your photography.

Your ima team