TVN.hu
TVN.hu | |
URL | http://tvn.hu[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] |
Status | Endangered |
Archiving status | Most of it Lost in 2018, the rest In progress... |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
Project lead | user:bzc6p |
TVN.hu is a Hungarian web portal offering several services, home of a vast amount of user-generated content. Its "flagship" service is xfree.hu
The TVN.hu company's balance has been deeply in the red for years now, so the sites are endangered. Not being popular and known in wide circles, it will certainly disappear as soon as creditors become fed up.
A handful of mostly elderly people, however, seem to actively use the sites even nowadays, they are still uploading content.
According to a blog post, in 2018 TVN.hu turned to be a paid service, and those who didn't subscribe were eliminated from the system, and their content got deleted.
This explains why most of the users' accounts are not available. It seems that only a portion of the users' contents are available as of 2020, and so the websites can be archived only to a limited extent.
A user discovery made on 2020-08-14 discovered 9430 users, but only 86(!) accounts seem to be still working. That is, more than 99% of the user accounts, along with their contents, were deleted in 2018.
Services
The following are TVN's services that are interesting for an archivist, with content dating back to 2006. (Numbers as of 2015-12-26.)
xfree.hu
Images. There are currently approx. 270,000 albums, with several (sometimes thousands of) images in each.
- Archiving status: Upcoming by user:bzc6p
blog.xfree.hu
Blogs. In an unknown number of blogs there are nearly 4 million entries, according to the site's search engine.
List of a user's friends also runs under this domain.
- Archiving status: Not saved yet
video.xfree.hu
Videos. Nearly 36,000 of them.
- Archiving status: Not saved yet
tudjatok.hu
Questions & Answers. With more than 35,000 questions, it's probably the second (but much, much minor) after gyakorikerdesek.hu.
- Archiving done by user:bzc6p in February 2016. (Archive)
fecsegj.hu
A public short-message board, like a microblog. Nearly 1,100,000 messages.
- Archiving status: Not saved yet
velemenyezd.hu
A news aggregate site, with commenting feature. There are more than 270,000 articles.
- Archiving status: Not saved yet
receptbazis.hu
Recipes. Currently ~4,200 of them.
- Archiving status: Not saved yet
xmagazin.hu
"Community magazine". Tens of thousands of articles in eight categories.
- Archiving status: Not saved yet
Defunct services
Free hosting
Free webhosting on USERNAME.tvn.hu was discontinued on 2013-04-11, "after 10 years".[1]
Archiving
Site by site, by user:bzc6p, see above in the appropriate sections.
References