Flickr to Ipernity ... a good thing out of a bad

I dropped a few images in. Seems to work fine and quick enough. Bit of a curve, but it feels like "old" flickr so far.

Has anyone used the flickr importer yet -either in onesy or batch mode?
 
Not sure. Ipernity is clean, but the server is pretty clearly in France, and loading photos is slow here in DC - slideshows don't really work very well.

To be clear, I have tended to use Flickr (and now SmugMug) as an electronic postcard - I share photos after a trip and invite friends and family to go there and click on the slideshow link. Some time over the next year I will get serious about putting a portfolio online, but that is a different product and may require a different solution.

SmugMug is $40-$60 per year at the low end, fast, customizable, and seems to have a pretty active online community. I have started to populate my new site and you can see that at the link below to 'My other galleries.'

YMMV,

Kirk
 
burancap said:
I dropped a few images in. Seems to work fine and quick enough. Bit of a curve, but it feels like "old" flickr so far.

Has anyone used the flickr importer yet -either in onesy or batch mode?
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I used the Flickr importer when I settelt in batch mode.
Worked well - just a few stops while they got to much traffic.
I couldn't wait 😀 so I started it again and got a few pics doubble - nothing big.
 
wallace said:
good question, I'd also like to know more...
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I tried it once. Nice layout but the uploading interface annoyed me so I stopped using it. Might be worth a second go although Ipernity does look nice.
 
I think everyone's entitled to their own opinion about the flickr update, but the puerile screaming and tantrums over there have got a bit old by now imho.

flickr have changed their design, and apart from giving constructive feedback, the only other option is to leave for another service, or create a new one for yourself. Posting images that shout 'NEW FLICKR SUX CHANGE IT BAK' doesn't fall into the constructive category.

FWIW I've been clicking around where people still have parallel streams on ipernity and flickr, and I have to say I personally feel the flickr stream is always more attractive: especially the first introductory page on ipernity has tiny, jumbled-together thumbnails of image-sets which are really ugly and difficult to see. I thought this was a major complaint amongst defecting flickr users?

And then I really hate the fact that clicking on a thumbnail takes me to a page where the actual image covers about 12% of available screen space. If the rest was actually whitespace I'd enjoy the calming minimalism - but the images are surrounded by clumps of text and links and other distractions.

Must say I don't get the ipernity hype, but if people feel at home there, then great. This is the whole point of having choice.
 
mani said:
I think everyone's entitled to their own opinion about the flickr update, but the puerile screaming and tantrums over there have got a bit old by now imho.

flickr have changed their design, and apart from giving constructive feedback, the only other option is to leave for another service, or create a new one for yourself. Posting images that shout 'NEW FLICKR SUX CHANGE IT BAK' doesn't fall into the constructive category.

FWIW I've been clicking around where people still have parallel streams on ipernity and flickr, and I have to say I personally feel the flickr stream is always more attractive: especially the first introductory page on ipernity has tiny, jumbled-together thumbnails of image-sets which are really ugly and difficult to see. I thought this was a major complaint amongst defecting flickr users?

And then I really hate the fact that clicking on a thumbnail takes me to a page where the actual image covers about 12% of available screen space. If the rest was actually whitespace I'd enjoy the calming minimalism - but the images are surrounded by clumps of text and links and other distractions.

Must say I don't get the ipernity hype, but if people feel at home there, then great. This is the whole point of having choice.
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... well folk can make their own mind up on that by looking at my links below ... and I'm confident those with any aesthetic sensibility will come to the same conclusion as I did
 
Sparrow said:
those with any aesthetic sensibility...
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Well I tried to be polite and say that I was expressing my own personal opinion about the respective designs, but I note that you don't share that attitude, so I don't really see the point in discussing it further.
Good luck on ipernity.
 
It turns out I had registered before and forgot about it.
Will keep an eye on it.
If flickr insisted to ask me to pay twice as much by next year when my subscription is due for renewal, I may consider switching to ipernity.

Btw, to those who posted their site in this thread: Looks good!
 
I opened up an account on ipernity and have made you rebels contacts. Have exactly 1 image up at the moment. I don't see myself "moving there" soon as I'm going to give Flickr a chance to make some "corrections" after this firestorm. They have done some good things as well recently, see their iPhone app for an example, so I'm cutting them a little slack.

I'm in the web business and I know what it's like to have a controversial release. Let's hope they react and modify to our (my) liking 🙂

Anyway, iPernity isn't bad, just awfully small in scale right now from a user perspective.
 
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