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Blingee
Blingee logo
Blingee.com 2015-04-03 20-31-53.png
URL http://blingee.com/
Status Closing
Archiving status Upcoming...
Archiving type Unknown
Project source blingee-grab
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

Blingee is an image hosting and editing website. The site offers web-based tools for adding special effects to images, such as animation and sparkles. In August 2015, Blingee announced they were closing on August 25, 2015.

Shutdown notice

Dear Blingee Fans,

After more than 130 million Blingees made, the time has come for Blingee to ride off into the sunset. It's been an amazing 9 years, from the simple idea of making it easier to create animated images, to the explosion of creativity we have seen, and the wonderful and lively community that grew around it. Thank you for your passionate support over the years.

Before we close the site down, we wanted to give you the opportunity to save your Blingees to your computer. Here's how:

1. From your account Dasboard, select 'My Blingees' from the navigation column on the right side

2. Choose the "< >" icon on the Share line for the Blingee you wish to download

3. Click on 'Get Code or Download' for the size you want

4. Click the "Download this Blingee" button on the right side of the page

5. Repeat for the Blingees and sizes you wish to keep

The site will be turned off on August 25th, so please grab your Blingees before then.

If you have any questions or would like to share some thoughts, please join this forum thread

Thanks again for being one of the best communities on the internet! We wish you all the very best!

The Blingee Team

Site structure

Blingees and Postcards:

Stamps:

Groups:

Competitions:

Challenges:

Badges:

People:

  • Profile pages don't seem to be accessible via ID, although apparently each user is represented internally by an incremental number.
    • There is actually a way to get (all?) the usernames. Each badge has a list of blingees by a user that have won that badge, accessible via an ID (e.g. http://blingee.com/badge/view/42/user/1). Importantly, that page has a link to the user's profile. The ID seems to be the user ID, as /user/1 is blingee_team and /user/2 is a co-founder of Blingee. Some of them say "Oops, Error", which could correspond to a deleted or private profile.
    • From this, it's easy to get a list of usernames very quickly. According to my search, there are approximately 22,677,110 users on Blingee.
    • ... and growing because the signup page is still active.
  • Each profile page can have comments. A full paginated list is available at http://blingee.com/profile/USERNAME/comments (example)
  • An incomplete list of users: http://blingee.com/people

Misc.

External links