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'''PSharing.com''' (a.k.a. '''ivPicture.hu''') is a Hungarian image sharing service. Since its start in 2007, it has hosted more than 830,000 pictures (as of March 2015).
'''PSharing.com''' (a.k.a. '''ivPicture.hu''') was a Hungarian image sharing service. From its start in 2007 until its closure in 2016 it hosted more than 860,000 pictures.


== Vital signs ==
The service was interrupted on May 11, 2016.
=== Technical issues ===
Seems fine.


=== Administrator activity ===
== History ==
Their [http://facebook.com/psharingdotcom Facebook page] is often updated.
The site – apart from minor issues – worked quite fine. Administrators seemed to be active, they kept posting cute animal pictures on [http://facebook.com/psharingdotcom their Facebook page]. Hajdina Bt., the company behind the site seemed financially stable.


=== Financial status ===
Although not too many people used the site (200–300 pictures uploaded per day, this is a lower scale even in Hungarian context), they had nearly 8,000 followers on Facebook, and they were able to provide a quality service, on two domains (ivpicture.hu, psharing.com), for several years.
The company Hajdina Bt. behind the site seems to perform well. They also run a website security service (http://ivsystem.hu).
 
Furthermore, through the service they were able to advertise their other websites and services. The latest such one was their 2015-founded webhosting service [http://tarhelyotthon.hu tarhelyotthon.hu].
 
Earlier they also planned and tried starting some other services (ivMarket, ivLink, ivSystem, ivGames), with more or less (rather less) success.
 
== Shutdown ==
Despite the care and stability described above, the service disappeared on May 11, 2016, with no signs and no notice.<ref>To be honest, the writer of these lines hasn't visited the main page prior to the shutdown, so there ''may'' have been some notice there, but what is ''sure'' that there was no notice on their Facebook page, having 8,000 followers. This allows the presumption of no notice at all.</ref>
 
According to the log of the ongoing archiving process, on 2016-05-11 at 17:49 (UTC+2) their server got disconnected ("Connect timed out"), and starting from 19:34 requests to ivpicture.hu and psharing.com were redirected to tarhelyotthon.hu, which is still the situation as of 2016-06-09. Also, as of that date, still no notice was published about the shutdown.<ref>Interesting that they still shared a cute animal picture on Facebook on 2016-05-18, regardless.</ref>
 
On May 12 (one day after the shutdown), [[user:bzc6p]] wrote a mail through the contact form on tarhelyotthon.hu (as no other contact option is provided, such as an email address), but received no reply.


== Content ==
== Content ==
Most of the uploaded pictures seem to be original user content (e.g. photos, screenshots).
Most of the uploaded pictures seem to be original user content (e.g. photos, screenshots).


As of March 2015, more than 830,000 pictures have been uploaded.
Until May 2016, more than 860,000 pictures were uploaded.


The site also provides an album function, but it's not too popular: there are less than 500 albums, with just a few pictures in most of them.
The site also provided an album feature, but it was not too popular: as of March 2015, there were less than 500 albums, with just a few pictures in most of them.


== Site structure ==
== Site structure ==
Incrementing numbers are assigned to the uploaded pictures. There are public and not public pictures, but knowing the ID, every picture is accessible. (Non-public pictures are not shown in the image-browser.) All images seem to have jpg extension.
Incrementing numbers were assigned to the uploaded pictures. There were public and not public pictures, but knowing the ID, every picture was accessible. (Non-public pictures were not shown in the image-browser.) All images seem to have jpg extension.


Although the site is accessible through both the domains psharing.com and ivpicture.hu, the links provided to images contain ivpicture.hu, and the files are physically stored there, too.
Although the site was accessible through both the domains psharing.com and ivpicture.hu, the links provided to images contain ivpicture.hu, and the files seemed to be physically stored there, too.


To be saved:
To be saved:
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* Original: http://kep.ivpicture.hu/830028.N.jpg
* Original: http://kep.ivpicture.hu/830028.N.jpg


This way, besides all versions of the pictures, the most often used URLs<ref>If we don't differentiate between <code>www.example.com</code> and <code>example.com</code> – the Wayback Machine doesn't, either –, then everything is saved, otherwise a small portion of the shared URLs are not saved in their exact form.</ref> are saved along with their 18+ confirmation pages (they could be skipped using cookies, not doing so is intentional). Page requisites must already be present in the Archive.
This way, besides all versions of the pictures, the most often used URLs<ref>If we don't differentiate between <code>www.example.com</code> and <code>example.com</code> – the Wayback Machine doesn't, either –, then everything is saved, otherwise a small portion of the shared URLs are not saved in their exact form.</ref> are saved along with their 18+ confirmation pages (they could be skipped using cookies, not doing so is intentional). Page requisites must already be present in the Archive (but have finally been included in every item, regardless).


=== Private and public pictures ===
=== Private and public pictures ===
Public pictures are those that appear in the image browser (http://psharing.com/pic.php). Those not appearing are the private pictures, so an index of both the public and private pictures can be created with some discovery. However, the page mentioned above shows new pages by scrolling, one at a time. This cannot be processed automatically. However, the appearing pages can be accessed directly and separately on http://psharing.com/pic_new.jq.php?page=0, where the page parameter starts from 0 showing most recent public pictures, and goes up to cca. 11600 (as of April 2015).
Public pictures are those that appeared in the image browser (http://psharing.com/pic.php). Those not appearing are the private pictures, so an index of both the public and private pictures could be created with some discovery. However, the page mentioned above showed new pages by scrolling, one at a time. This could not be processed automatically. However, the appearing pages could be accessed directly and separately on http://psharing.com/pic_new.jq.php?page=0, where the page parameter started from 0 showing most recent public pictures, and went up to cca. 11600 (as of April 2015).
 
== Archiving ==
Wayback Machine itself archived only a few thousand pages.
 
[[user:bzc6p]] started archiving all the uploaded pictures in April 2015. He also saved private ones, based on a discussion, the conclusion of which was that they should be saved, but probably darkened (i.e. made inaccessible in bulk) after being uploaded to the Internet Archive and ingested into the Wayback Machine.<ref>http://archive.fart.website/bin/irclogger_log/archiveteam-bs?date=2015-04-02,Thu&sel=148#l144</ref>
 
[[user:bzc6p]] started with the private pictures, which got saved all up until ID 830,000. Then came the public ones, but the unexpected closure cut the process at ID 50,206. Albums were not saved either.


== Archiving status ==
== Archives ==
Wayback Machine has only a few thousand pages archived.
* Private pictures in ID range 1 – 829,999: {{Green|Saved}}
* Private pictures in ID range 830,000 – 860,000: {{Red|Could not be saved}}
* Public pictures in ID range 1 – 50,206: {{Green|Saved}}
* Public pictures in ID range 50,207 – 860,000: {{Red|Could not be saved}}
* Albums: {{Red|Could not be saved}}
* Their Facebook page: [http://archive.org/details/psharing_facebook_20160609 here] is the archive


[[user:bzc6p]] has started archiving all the uploaded pictures. Though, he differentiates public and private ones, and tries to handle them accordingly.<ref>An archive of private pictures will be made, but probably darkened, that is, hidden from publicity. Discussion: http://archive.fart.website/bin/irclogger_log/archiveteam-bs?date=2015-04-02,Thu&sel=148#l144</ref>
'''You can obtain the archived images''' (either private or public) '''from the [https://web.archive.org Wayback Machine]''' if you have the link.


Only pictures are being saved. As albums are two dimensionally incremental and maybe less important things, they will be saved only when the website enters the Endangered or the Closing phase.
Some of the content marked as "could not be saved" might also be available in the Wayback Machine, it's worth giving it a try.


== Notes ==
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{{Hungarian websites}}
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[[Category:Image hosting services]]
[[Category:Image hosting]]

Revision as of 19:52, 20 August 2020

PSharing (ivPicture)
PSharing logo
PSharing, a Hungarian image sharing service
PSharing, a Hungarian image sharing service
URL http://psharing.com[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] / http://ivpicture.hu[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]
Status Offline
Archiving status Partially saved
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

PSharing.com (a.k.a. ivPicture.hu) was a Hungarian image sharing service. From its start in 2007 until its closure in 2016 it hosted more than 860,000 pictures.

The service was interrupted on May 11, 2016.

History

The site – apart from minor issues – worked quite fine. Administrators seemed to be active, they kept posting cute animal pictures on their Facebook page. Hajdina Bt., the company behind the site seemed financially stable.

Although not too many people used the site (200–300 pictures uploaded per day, this is a lower scale even in Hungarian context), they had nearly 8,000 followers on Facebook, and they were able to provide a quality service, on two domains (ivpicture.hu, psharing.com), for several years.

Furthermore, through the service they were able to advertise their other websites and services. The latest such one was their 2015-founded webhosting service tarhelyotthon.hu.

Earlier they also planned and tried starting some other services (ivMarket, ivLink, ivSystem, ivGames), with more or less (rather less) success.

Shutdown

Despite the care and stability described above, the service disappeared on May 11, 2016, with no signs and no notice.[1]

According to the log of the ongoing archiving process, on 2016-05-11 at 17:49 (UTC+2) their server got disconnected ("Connect timed out"), and starting from 19:34 requests to ivpicture.hu and psharing.com were redirected to tarhelyotthon.hu, which is still the situation as of 2016-06-09. Also, as of that date, still no notice was published about the shutdown.[2]

On May 12 (one day after the shutdown), user:bzc6p wrote a mail through the contact form on tarhelyotthon.hu (as no other contact option is provided, such as an email address), but received no reply.

Content

Most of the uploaded pictures seem to be original user content (e.g. photos, screenshots).

Until May 2016, more than 860,000 pictures were uploaded.

The site also provided an album feature, but it was not too popular: as of March 2015, there were less than 500 albums, with just a few pictures in most of them.

Site structure

Incrementing numbers were assigned to the uploaded pictures. There were public and not public pictures, but knowing the ID, every picture was accessible. (Non-public pictures were not shown in the image-browser.) All images seem to have jpg extension.

Although the site was accessible through both the domains psharing.com and ivpicture.hu, the links provided to images contain ivpicture.hu, and the files seemed to be physically stored there, too.

To be saved:

This way, besides all versions of the pictures, the most often used URLs[3] are saved along with their 18+ confirmation pages (they could be skipped using cookies, not doing so is intentional). Page requisites must already be present in the Archive (but have finally been included in every item, regardless).

Private and public pictures

Public pictures are those that appeared in the image browser (http://psharing.com/pic.php). Those not appearing are the private pictures, so an index of both the public and private pictures could be created with some discovery. However, the page mentioned above showed new pages by scrolling, one at a time. This could not be processed automatically. However, the appearing pages could be accessed directly and separately on http://psharing.com/pic_new.jq.php?page=0, where the page parameter started from 0 showing most recent public pictures, and went up to cca. 11600 (as of April 2015).

Archiving

Wayback Machine itself archived only a few thousand pages.

user:bzc6p started archiving all the uploaded pictures in April 2015. He also saved private ones, based on a discussion, the conclusion of which was that they should be saved, but probably darkened (i.e. made inaccessible in bulk) after being uploaded to the Internet Archive and ingested into the Wayback Machine.[4]

user:bzc6p started with the private pictures, which got saved all up until ID 830,000. Then came the public ones, but the unexpected closure cut the process at ID 50,206. Albums were not saved either.

Archives

  • Private pictures in ID range 1 – 829,999: Saved
  • Private pictures in ID range 830,000 – 860,000: Could not be saved
  • Public pictures in ID range 1 – 50,206: Saved
  • Public pictures in ID range 50,207 – 860,000: Could not be saved
  • Albums: Could not be saved
  • Their Facebook page: here is the archive

You can obtain the archived images (either private or public) from the Wayback Machine if you have the link.

Some of the content marked as "could not be saved" might also be available in the Wayback Machine, it's worth giving it a try.

Notes

  1. To be honest, the writer of these lines hasn't visited the main page prior to the shutdown, so there may have been some notice there, but what is sure that there was no notice on their Facebook page, having 8,000 followers. This allows the presumption of no notice at all.
  2. Interesting that they still shared a cute animal picture on Facebook on 2016-05-18, regardless.
  3. If we don't differentiate between www.example.com and example.com – the Wayback Machine doesn't, either –, then everything is saved, otherwise a small portion of the shared URLs are not saved in their exact form.
  4. http://archive.fart.website/bin/irclogger_log/archiveteam-bs?date=2015-04-02,Thu&sel=148#l144


     Hungarian websites     
Red entries indicate websites which don't have an article on this wiki yet. Striked-through entries indicate websites that have already been shut down.
Archives & Digital Libraries mek.oszk.hu  · epa.oszk.hu  · dka.oszk.hu  · webarchivum.oszk.hu  · NAVA  · Fortepan  · fentrol.hu
Blogging Blog.hu  · Blogter  · Freeblog  · Blogger.hu  · reblog.hu  · xfree.hu  · cafeblog.hu
Social networks iWiW  · myVIP  · hotdog.hu  · Baratikor.com  · network.hu  · Mommo  · privi.hu
Webhosting Extra  · tar.hu  · ATW  · Ingyenweb  · Freeweb  · Ultraweb  · x3.hu  · ini.hu  · ininet.hu  · G-Portál  · uCoz  · eOldal  · ewk  · 5mp.eu  · mindenkilapja  · Webnode
Forums, message boards* Index  · SG  · Nők Lapja Cafe  · Hoxa
Video hosting Indavideó  · Videa  · videoplayer.hu  · xfree.hu  · videok.hu
Image hosting Kepfeltoltes.hu  · Fotoalbum.hu  · Indafotó  · Kephost.com  · pics.coldline.hu  · kep.tar.hu  · noob.hu  · PSharing (a.k.a. ivPicture)  · Kephost.hu  · kepfeltoltes.eu  · kephost.net  · kepkuldes.com  · xfree.hu  · GTF Képhost  · fotozz.hu  · Kepkezelo.com  · keptarad.hu  · darkweb.hu  · fos.hu
Questions and Answers gyakorikerdesek.hu  · tudjatok.hu
File sharing data.hu  · toldacuccot.hu  · hellshare.hu  · addat.hu  · fileposta.hu
Document sharing doksi.hu  · Docplayer
Fun Demotiváló  · keptelenseg.hu  · csubakka.hu  · nemkutya.com  · legalja.hu  · szanalmas.hu  · trollfesz.cc  · gumicsizma.hu
Trash napiszar.com  · napiszar.hu  · netszar.com  · napiszar.org
Other News+C  · moly.hu  · gyertyalang.hu  · Volán websites  · Szuperinfó