Blingee

Blingee
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:

• Each "blingee" page can be accessed at http://blingee.com/blingee/view/ID
  • ID is an incremental number; the first is http://blingee.com/blingee/view/1. A more recent ID is http://blingee.com/blingee/view/135106416
  • Blingee comments are paginated and can be accessed at http://blingee.com/blingee/ID/comments (example)
• Non-existent IDs redirect to the homepage; deleted/private (?) IDs redirect to http://blingee.com/account/login
  • Example deleted or hidden image: http://blingee.com/blingee/view/134979862
• Blingee directory: http://blingee.com/blingee/directory/page/1

Stamps:

• Each stamp page can be accessed at http://blingee.com/stamp/view/ID
  • Also incremental; the first is http://blingee.com/stamp/view/1, more recent is http://blingee.com/stamp/view/8414917
• Stamps don't seem to have a comment feature.
• An incomplete list of stamps: http://blingee.com/stamp/list
• Stamps used by the Blingee editor are stored as SWF files, which contain a set of transparent PNGs
  • SWFs are indexed by tag, http://blingee.com/stamp/embedded_list?query=TAG&page=1
  • The SWF url can be found as an AES encrypted string, which decrypts XML containing the stamp ID, the SWF url, and a smaller thumbnail SWF url
  • The AES key is rAI1P8bpXoReutED8XOTT0lh26MWhWz87IH4t39LjJp3wxLkEHDKE2Er

Groups:

• Group pages can be accessed at http://blingee.com/group/GROUP_ID
  • Also incremental. First group is http://blingee.com/group/1, more recent is http://blingee.com/group/89403
• Each group can have its own forum.
  • A paginated list of topics is available at http://blingee.com/group/GROUP_ID/topics
  • Each topic is paginated (15 comments per page) and available at http://blingee.com/group/GROUP_ID/topic/TOPIC_ID (example)
  • TOPIC_ID is not incremental.
• A paginated list of group members is available at http://blingee.com/group/GROUP_ID/members?list_type=4097
• An incomplete list of groups: http://blingee.com/group/list/page/1/type/4098

Competitions:

• First competition page is http://blingee.com/competition/view/1, more recent is http://blingee.com/competition/view/6138
• Each competition page has a paginated list of rankings at http://blingee.com/competition/rankings/ID (available after the competition is over)

Challenges:

• First challenge page is http://blingee.com/challenge/view/1, more recent is http://blingee.com/challenge/view/7100
• Each challenge page has a paginated list of rankings at http://blingee.com/challenge/rankings/ID (available after the challenge is over)
• There is also an entries page (http://blingee.com/challenge/entries/ID), but that requires a login.

People:

• Profile pages don't seem to be accessible via ID, although apparently each user is represented internally by an incremental number.
• 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.

• URL shortener: http://bln.gs/ (ex. http://bln.gs/b/28fss0 and http://bln.gs/b/1)
• S3 server: http://image.blingee.com.s3.amazonaws.com/

External links

• Blingee entry on Know Your Meme^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}