Ipernity

Ipernity is a commercial web platform with community functions, account for the user digital content such as images or videos in the longer term publicly available and can be provided with keywords and other metadata. Most features are free with 200 MB Upload a month to use certain advanced features and unlimited upload are only paying customers ( the "Club " ) is available.

It is in direct competition to Flickr and is often compared with it. It stands out from them by a somewhat wider range of functions.

The name is composed of "IP" and " eternity", the English word for eternity.

Technically, the service is carried out largely with free software components such as PHP, Perl and MySQL. The platform is accessible not only on the web but can for example also be addressed via its own open API or through so-called news feeds (RSS, Atom) to deliver information, so that the services can be integrated into other.

History

The two French programmer Christophe Ruelle and Christian Conti started in 2005 to work on the platform. In May 2006, a first alpha version was tentatively connected to the grid in April 2007, the public beta phase was opened. Since October 10, 2008 is the public API. ipernity asserted itself in December 2008 at the second annual Open Web Awards by Mashable as the best photo sharing platform. As a result of a censorship controversy at the competition site Flickr joined a larger group of users to ipernity, which now has in turn developed similar problems. On 20 July 2009 the company's shares were sold to private investors in the value of 128 million euros on the Paris Bourse.

On April 9, 2013, the beta phase of ipernity ended with the re-launch of a new website, after which the layout of the former appearance of Flickr largely accessible. Shortly thereafter, in May 2013, then turned his hand to Flickr layout, which led to a new exodus of many Flickr users toward ipernity. The reason for this was that these users that they are familiar with, previous Flickr - wanted to retain layout, which they found now at ipernity. Due to the sudden onslaught of many new users of the server ipernity were days only difficult to reach. Only after about a week the situation calmed down noticeably.

Use

The target groups especially families and artists / writers are in view. Especially in the Esperanto community was ipernity greatly accepted.