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'''Indafotó''' is a large Hungarian image hosting service, launched in 2007, and operated by Inda-Labs, that runs quite popular services in Hungary such as [[Blog.hu]], [[Indavideó]], [[Index Fórum]], and is also related to the #1 Hungarian website [[index.hu]]. | '''Indafotó''' is a large Hungarian image hosting service, launched in 2007, and operated by Inda-Labs, that runs quite popular services in Hungary such as [[Blog.hu]], [[Indavideó]], [[Index Fórum]], and is also related to the #1 Hungarian website [[index.hu]]. | ||
Late February 2025 they announced that they would shut the service down and delete 13.6 million photos on {{datetime|2025-03-31}}. | |||
== Site reconnaissance == | == Site reconnaissance == | ||
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|Szolgáltatásunk hamarosan megszűnik, már csak korlátozott funkcionalitással érhető el. Részletekkel hamarosan emailben és itt a felületen jelentkezünk! | |Szolgáltatásunk hamarosan megszűnik, már csak korlátozott funkcionalitással érhető el. Részletekkel hamarosan emailben és itt a felületen jelentkezünk! | ||
|Our service is soon to be discontinued, now it is available only with limited functionality. We will follow up with details via email and on this interface shortly.}} | |Our service is soon to be discontinued, now it is available only with limited functionality. We will follow up with details via email and on this interface shortly.}} | ||
[[File:indafoto_closure.png|thumb|Detailed shutdown notice|300px|right]] | |||
In the last days of February, they specified the closure date in {{datetime|2025-03-31}} and gave the exact number of images to be deleted: 13,641,979. | |||
Logged-in users are able to see a more detailed notice (depicted on the right), which also states that uploading of images is not possible since {{datetime|2025-02-01}}, and that users are able to download their uploaded images, browsable in folders representing the albums, however, metadata such as description and comments of the images are not included. | |||
== Archiving == | == Archiving == | ||
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[[User:bzc6p]] started archiving the 58,482 users and their corresponding 8,914,482 images in June 2023. | [[User:bzc6p]] started archiving the 58,482 users and their corresponding 8,914,482 images in June 2023. | ||
After the announcement of the shutdown, archiving efforts got multipled in order to save the most possible. However, website response time is a bottleneck, and it's most likely that not all images will be saved by the deadline. | |||
=== Status === | === Status === | ||
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As of 2024-02-23, approximately 96.7% of the users and 32.7% of the images have been downloaded (because users with fewer images are being archived first). | As of 2024-02-23, approximately 96.7% of the users and 32.7% of the images have been downloaded (because users with fewer images are being archived first). | ||
Updated weekly. | |||
=== Archives === | === Archives === | ||
Revision as of 07:54, 1 March 2025
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| URL | http://indafoto.hu[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] |
| Status | Closing |
| Archiving status | In progress... |
| Archiving type | Unknown |
| IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
| Project lead | user:bzc6p |
Indafotó is a large Hungarian image hosting service, launched in 2007, and operated by Inda-Labs, that runs quite popular services in Hungary such as Blog.hu, Indavideó, Index Fórum, and is also related to the #1 Hungarian website index.hu.
Late February 2025 they announced that they would shut the service down and delete 13.6 million photos on 2025-03-31.
Site reconnaissance
As of February 2023, according to the search page, it is hosting more than 8,900,000 photos, but according to the image ids, it is, or has hosted more than 27 million images (it might be that not all images are public).
Most of the images seem to be photos of good quality, with little sexually explicit content.
Through the search function, even the oldest pictures are available, dating back to 2007.
58,482 users belong to the above mentioned images (i.e. that many users have at least one image uploaded); some users have tens of thousands of images uploaded.
Shutdown
Sometime in February 2025, a notice appeared on the top of image pages, reading:
| Original Hungarian | Translated English |
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| Szolgáltatásunk hamarosan megszűnik, már csak korlátozott funkcionalitással érhető el. Részletekkel hamarosan emailben és itt a felületen jelentkezünk! | Our service is soon to be discontinued, now it is available only with limited functionality. We will follow up with details via email and on this interface shortly. |
In the last days of February, they specified the closure date in 2025-03-31 and gave the exact number of images to be deleted: 13,641,979. Logged-in users are able to see a more detailed notice (depicted on the right), which also states that uploading of images is not possible since 2025-02-01, and that users are able to download their uploaded images, browsable in folders representing the albums, however, metadata such as description and comments of the images are not included.
Archiving
With a strong business and technological background, one would think the website is not in danger. However, user:bzc6p considers the time has arrived for archiving the content, for the following reasons:
- Technical issues (broken search not showing images since April 2019, no https on the main page etc.)
- Seems to be abandoned by staff
- The world has changed a lot in 13 years, and while back then blog.hu and index.hu themselves seem to have used Indafotó to store images, they don't any more
- There is some turmoil around the flagship service index.hu, this might have further consequences
- Image hosting services are incremental. That is, already uploaded images can be continuously saved – one day they will have to be, anyway.
User:bzc6p started archiving the 58,482 users and their corresponding 8,914,482 images in June 2023.
After the announcement of the shutdown, archiving efforts got multipled in order to save the most possible. However, website response time is a bottleneck, and it's most likely that not all images will be saved by the deadline.
Status
As of 2024-02-23, approximately 96.7% of the users and 32.7% of the images have been downloaded (because users with fewer images are being archived first).
Updated weekly.
Archives
Uploading of archived user content to the following items has been started: https://archive.org/details/@bzc6p?query=indafoto_hu_users_u1k. Items get populated with WARCs slowly (as IA upload speed permits...) throughout 2025.
| Notable websites operated by Indamedia Group | |
| blog.hu · Indavideó · | |