Like many others, I felt shocked by the new design of flickr. My eyes found no rest anymore. In the front page view, the densly crowded photos are fighting each other. Viewing the contact page - just as the front page of my own stream - I feel being shouted at by a many-voiced chorus whose voices by themselves might be beautiful but which are not at all attuned to each other. In the single photo view, the black background looks so heavy to my eyes that it seems to crush the photos. They are deprived of the necessary space to breathe.

Looking around for alternatives, I was pointed to ipernity, and as some others already, I now opened an account there. For the time being, I will keep and maintain the flickr account and the new ipernity account to see how flickr develops and how well ipernity works. flickr is a place which I enjoyed very much and to which some very important memories are related. So I cannot give it up easily. Yet, I would be glad if I could meet more of the people whose photos I appreciate so much again at ipernity .