Fotoalbum.hu

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Fotoalbum.hu
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Fotoalbum.hu, a Hungarian photo hosting and album managing site
Fotoalbum.hu, a Hungarian photo hosting and album managing site
URL http://fotoalbum.hu[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]
Status Online!
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fotoalbum.hu is probably the biggest Hungarian image hosting service. Registered users can upload unlimited number of photographs, placed into albums. Since its start in 2006, more than 19 million photos have been uploaded into ~246,000 albums, by ~46,000 users (as of December 2014).

Vital signs

Technical issues

The site is sophisticated and their service is of good quality. No performance issues experienced.

Administrator activity

An outsider can't find out how active the admins are. The policies, documentation etc. seem to be years old (from the dates). This doesn't mean they don't do anything. Also, the site can run on its own.

Financial status

The company behind the site offers photo development service, which seems to be profitable: the company makes good profit. How much it costs to run a site with tens of terabytes of data (20 million photos must be about this amount), and how much it takes from the profit, is unknown, but we probably don't need to worry about the site. (fotoalbum.hu also serves as an advertising place for the company: it offers its services for photos uploaded there.)

Site structure

Uploading to the site needs registration. It seems that photos can be uploaded only into albums, so creating at least one album is also necessary. The user can set the availability of their albums: public, password protected, or private.

User pages: <USERNAME>.fotoalbum.hu

Album pages: <ALBUMNAME>.<USERNAME>.fotoalbum.hu

Image pages (with reduced sized photo): <ALBUMNAME>.<USERNAME>.fotoalbum.hu/viewpicture/pictureid/<PICTUREID>

Image pages (with full sized photo): <ALBUMNAME>.<USERNAME>.fotoalbum.hu/viewlarge/pictureid/<PICTUREID>

Reduced sized photo: static.fotoalbum.hu/picturepreview/<YYYY>/<MM>-<DD>/<USERNAME>/<FILENAME>.<EXT>

Full sized photo: static.fotoalbum.hu/picturezoom/<YYYY>/<MM>-<DD>/<USERNAME>/<FILENAME>.<EXT>

Where USERNAME, ALBUMNAME are ASCII alphanumeric; YYYY, MM, DD are date elements like in 2014-12-19; PICTUREID is a number which doesn't seem to be regular (incremental) for either a user or globally; FILENAME is an inner filename, maybe name of the original, postfixed with another number; <EXT> is its extension.

The site doesn't provide full index of the pictures, nor does allow to browse everything. However, it lists a huge lot of tags (really a lot, maybe all?), where all belonging pictures can be browsed (e.g. http://www.fotoalbum.hu/tags/2006&pageid=30, pageid can be changed). (But not all pictures have tags!) There is also a category list, so albums belonging to a specific category can be browsed similarly. From these all, a fair amount of pictures and albums could be discovered if necessary. It's uncertain if everything. (It depends: if every album must be given a category, and every category is listed, then yes. Possibly this is the case, because there are a lot of categories, and also one called "Everything else".)

Archives

Some sampling shows that the Wayback Machine has archived a good amount of the pictures, however, only the reduced sized versions.


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