Dear members and friends of ipernity,

1) Quota for adding to a group.
This relates to groups having a limit on the number of contributions allowed in a day/week/month time frame. This was controlled on exact 24 hour intervals before the window allowing further additions was again opened. With this revision, the next open day starts at midnight, the next week starts Monday, and the next month on the first. Please see this article for a full explanation.

2) Minor update regarding private images in public groups.
When a private photo is added to a public group, it becomes visible to all visitors to that group. This also means that visitors to the group could share the link to a private photo with other people, who would then be able to view it. This is now made clear in the warning message that appears when a private photo is about to be added to a public group.

3) World Photography Day 2025.
There are just over two weeks before our 5th annual event. See the 2025 article about this year's event and how to join in the fun.

4) Real world meeting in Saarburg.
The next ipernity meetup in the real world will take place from September 12 to September 14 in Saarburg, Germany. All members are invited to participate. If interested then look in this group for details about the programme and how to register.

5) PHOTON-Festival in Saarland.
For the first time ever, ipernity will have a booth at a photography festival. This outreach effort is thanks to Andreas, Corinne and Bernhard who will be staffing the booth. See details here.

6) Server overload update.
As we continue to have server slow down issues, we would like add to the previous suggestion of reloading or refreshing pages that don’t initially load quickly. If reloading and refreshing doesn’t give enough relief from the waiting, we suggest you wait 15 -30 minutes Before returning then to try the website again. The reason this might work is that while the servers are still being over extended most of the time, viewing our server data, we can see that, after the programming we have put in place, major server overloads tend to happen in 5-20 minute spurts and between 2-5 times a day.

Current steps the team is taking towards mitigating the problem:
After the support from an earlier outside person didn’t work out, we are now in conversation with someone else who has given us some new ideas. We are waiting for their possible support to test implementing a couple of them. If anyone is interested in more technical details, please send an ipermail to the team.

One of their suggestions is to use the Cloudflare company which is something we had already looked into. To use that company would involve an ongoing monthly fee. Our initial check showed this fee to be very expensive, however to confirm this we will be calling in early August to clarify the cost for our specific situation and to see if what they offer can accommodate ipernity’s setup.

7) In memoria.
It is with great sadness that we let you know our long time member HelenaPF (Héléna-paule Fitoussi) passed away on July 23rd 2025. Condolences and comments can be made on their in memoria page.

Your ima team.