Dear members and friends of ipernity,

1) Facelift for videos.
If you recall when the Adobe Flash Player was disbanded, the use of the HTML5 'video' tag was implemented. But the coding provided by 'Share' under the 'Actions' menu was not updated from using the iframe tag. This has been rectified, for audio files too, so that they can be included in comments, image descriptions, and articles.

Also, they can now be played within the medium and large size multiple item display pages. As a click on a video will now play it, a button has been added to open the single image page.

2) Server overload update.
Currently our servers are running as expected for the majority of the time. Overloads due to activity outside of our membership continue to happen randomly. Only some of these overloads are creating slow loading of pages and error messages. As we continue to search for a more permanent way to mitigate the effect, if we find a major overload occurring we may bring the servers down for 30 minutes at a time. We ask for your patience with this.

Investigation continues into using Cloudflare services. This is proving more difficult than expected, partly due to lack of efficient customer support from Cloudflare. If anyone has experience with Cloudflare, please reach out to the team.

3) World Photography Day.
Wow - It's a world record for World Photography Day! (Well, Club record anyway.) We had 81 participants in this year's event, 9 more than last year!

A wonderful wide range of types of photos were contributed. From the inside of a dryer (partical accelerator!) to collections of cameras to the beauty of light across mountains. Lots of interesting conversations have happened, prompted by the photos, the photo descriptions, and the questions from the people who have come and viewed the event.

Check out the group to see the results here: World Photography Day.
Join the group if you would like to receive a reminder about next year's event, and notes about any changes to its running.

Your ima team.