Just a few months after Team Ipernity offered a "two for one" subscription offer to boost finances and increase membership, came the terse announcement that they could no longer sustain the site, and would be shutting down Jan 31, 2017.

FLICKR users who had migrated to iPernity.com after Yahoo's disastrous Flickr Fiasco in May 2013 now had to re-live the fiasco all over again, in not only trying to find a new home & new community for sharing their photos & stories, but were given a very short window to save (without any help, tools, api, or suggestion on how to do so) & move all of their images, text, stories, and documents to another server (some iPernity users had been members for years and had amassed hundreds, if not thousands of photos).

Ipernity users who are smart, would already have backup originals of all their work, but for all those who used the site not only for sharing photos, but for social interaction and friendship as well, now have to scramble to set up these connections elsewhere.

What a huge amount of wasted time and effort.