...too busy for me. I like the no-frills design much better.

Ich finde es "überladen"

Äh . . . das ist keine Design-Studie.
Es geht um das Statement
:-))

Ja... zu lang.
Vielleicht etwas mehr zusammenfassen
und dadurch weniger Text?!

Es ist alles richtig, aber für meinen Geschmack zuviel Text. Die ersten drei Absätze enthalten keinen Punkt, denn nicht auch jede andere Fotoseite claimen würde - hier ist also Potenzial zum Straffen.

Far too wordy in my opinion; but maybe that's just me. Maybe the use of precise bullet points would make for easier reading.

There is also an apostrophe wrongly used in the second line.

One word only: overloaded

To long and needs to get straight to the point, as in this reply.

I like the mission statement. I personally want to support sites that have a good set of values, and I like the values presented here. You can for example put this long form of it on a separate page, maybe do a punchline or two for easy readers? Or something like that.

habe mir die Zeit genommen das ins Deutsche zu übersetzten,
nur um festzustellen dass es ganauso verschraubt wie im Englischen klingt... ;-)

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ipernity ist eine Gemeinschaft von ehrgeizigen Hobbyfotografen, professionellen Fotografen, Künstlern, Autoren und auch gelegentlichen Nutzern aus aller Welt.
Unsere Webanwendung erlaubt das private Teilen von Fotos, Videos, Audiodateien und Blogeinträgen mit der Familie und den Freunden,
sowie diese Inhalte auch online öffentlich zu verbreiten.
Das Zusammentreffen in (thematischen) Gruppen fördert die gegenseitige Inspiration und lädt zur direkten Kommunikation ein;
dies wird zusätlich durch eine maschinelle Übersetzungsfunktion unterstützt.
Ipernity ist eine benutzergeführte Platform, und somit unabhängig von möglichen finanziellen, politischen, religiösen oder anderen Interessen von Drittparteien.
Der Datenschutz von Inhalten und benutzerbezogenen Daten wird bei uns groß geschrieben. (ist von hoher Wichtigkeit.)
Abgesehen vom Indizieren der öffentlichen Inhalte durch Suchmaschinen werden keine weiteren Daten freigegeben.
Die Vorzüge von ipernitys Webservice mit seiner einzigartigen Foto-in-Foto-Funktion können mit der Desktopapplikation voll ausgeschöpft werden.
ipernity ist auch für iPhones und Android-Geräte mit einem maßgeschneiderten Funktionsset verfügbar.

just fur fun: die Rückübersetzung durch google:

ipernity is a community of ambitious amateur photographers, professional photographers, artists, writers and occasional users from all over the world.
Our web application allows private sharing of photos, videos, audio files and blog entries with family and friends,
as well as to distribute this content publicly online.
The meeting in (thematic) groups promotes mutual inspiration and invites to direct communication;
This is additionally supported by a machine translation function.
Ipernity is a user-managed platform, and thus independent of possible financial, political, religious or other interests of third parties.
The privacy of content and user-related data is very important to us. (is of high importance.)
Apart from indexing the public content by search engines, no further data is released.
The benefits of ipernitys webservice with its unique photo-in-photo feature can be fully exploited with the desktop application.
ipernity is also available for iPhones and Android devices with a custom feature set.

I quickly drafted out a shorter version:

"Ipernity is a community of ambitious photo amateurs, professional photographers, artists, writers and casual users all around the world, who publish their work on its website.

Members’ work may be shared privately, for example with family and friends, or made available for global access.

Users’ privacy is protected. Public material may appear in search engines but nothing will be published anywhere else.

A translation feature enables members to communicate and mutually inspire each other, and members with similar interests may form and join groups.

Ipernity’s website is of high quality and user friendly. It is suitable for desktop computers and, with a customised feature set, for iphones and android devices.

Ipernity is user operated and is independent from financial, political, religious, or other third parties."

I think it conveys what the original intended. That's my penny's worth!

Ors has a point - is the statement intended for the front page, and if not where is it to be placed?

Like this --
know we are commenting on a 'draft' ---
John has made good points without too much wordiness.

Another version... ; - )

Ipernity is an international community of photographers, artists and writers.

We are member owned and independently operated.

One goal of the Ipernity community is to create an environment where anyone can share their work and inspire. Work may be shared privately between family and friends as well as publically to a global audience.

Member privacy is protected. Public material may appear in search engines but nothing will be published elsewhere.

A built-in translation feature enables members to communicate without language boundaries. Members with similar interests may form and join groups.

Our community’s website is suitable for the desktop, and with a customized feature set, can be shared on iphone and android devices.