PSharing
| PSharing (ivPicture) | |
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 PSharing, a Hungarian image sharing service | |
| URL | http://psharing.com[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] / http://ivpicture.hu[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] |
| Status | Online! |
| Archiving status | Upcoming... |
| Archiving type | Unknown |
| IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
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).
Vital signs
Technical issues
Seems fine.
Administrator activity
Their Facebook page is often updated.
Financial status
The company Hajdina Bt. behind the site seems to perform well. They also run a website security service (http://ivsystem.hu).
Content
Most of the uploaded pictures seem to be original user content (e.g. photos, screenshots).
As of March 2015, 830,000 pictures have been 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.
Site structure
Incrementing numbers are assigned to the uploaded pictures, which makes archiving quite easy. 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.)
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.
To be saved:
- Image page (18+ confirmation appears): http://www.psharing.com/pic.php?id=830028 or http://www.ivpicture.hu/pic.php?id=830028
- Bypassing the 18+ confirmation: http://www.psharing.com/pic.php?id=830028&mode18o=set or http://www.ivpicture.hu/pic.php?id=830028&mode18o=set
- Still the image page: http://kep.ivpicture.hu/830028 (redirects to http://www.ivpicture.hu/pic.php?id=830028)
- 140×140 thumbnail: http://kep.ivpicture.hu/830028.t.jpg
- 600×600 size: http://kep.ivpicture.hu/830028.jpg
- Original: http://kep.ivpicture.hu/830028.N.jpg
The last four links appear on the image page (first two entries), so it's sufficient to save those two (four) pages with page requsites and links from ivpicture.hu and psharing.com domains.
Archiving status
For every image, a 18+ confirmation page appears. The page for browsing the uploaded public pictures shows new pages with some Javascript scrolling magic. These, and possibly some other reasons make it difficult – maybe impossible – for the Wayback Machine to properly backup the site.
user:bzc6p is now preparing to download all the uploaded pictures. (As the uploaded images are not easily browsable, and there is no other way to decide if a picture is public or not, everything will be downloaded, going incrementally.)
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.
Archives
Coming soon.