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 | Not saved yet |
| 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, more than 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. 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.
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://psharing.com/pic.php?id=830028 or http://www.ivpicture.hu/pic.php?id=830028
- Bypassing the 18+ confirmation: http://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://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
This way, besides all versions of the pictures, the most often used URLs[1] 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.
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).
Archiving status
Wayback Machine has only a few thousand pages archived.
user:bzc6p has started downloading all the uploaded pictures. As private pictures are also accessible, he archives them too, but takes care to hide them from wide publicity.[2] Project restarted and suspended for an indefinite time, in favor of myVIP. (Discovery is being done, regardless.)
Only pictures are being will be 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.
Notes