In the firewall of the server for seven days to protect Streetfiles against hack attacks;
In our web analyzer ‘Clicky‘ for a year. We chose Clicky not Google Analytics to be a bit more private;
On our own adserver for seven days.
In addition we save each Streetfiles members e-mail address. We have to do so to make sure not to get bombed by spambots. We suggest you use an e-mail address just for this purpose which can not get connected to you personally. You can even change the e-mail address afterwards in a non existing e-mail, whichs is on the other hand not so good, because than you should not forget your password and you will not be notified on anything.
We delete all photo metadata (EXIF, IPTC etc) after the upload!
We check each photo before publishing. We will not publish photos which are too hardcore. Streetfiles is about interesting stuff, not about hardcore actions.
You can allways upload photos anonmously without being logged in as a Streetfiles member.
So we try to care about your privacy as much as we can. Please do so too. You can start by NOT saving your login data to Streetfiles in your browser.
We suggest you use an anonymity service like Tor. Read our privacy policy for more info on this topic.
We still have goosebumps! Yesterday 2.000 visitors wanted to know what Streetfiles looks like. We got 77 new members, and 496 new photos on the first day!
Now we are here. Thanks to everybody who supported us, especially just & ueberdose.
We integrated about 17.000 photos from the old graffitinet.com website and uploaded about 3.000 new ones (mostly from Berlin). Beside the anonymous upload you are now able become a Streetfiles member to manage your photos, write comments and join groups. Membership is free and only takes 2 minutes at Streetfiles.org.
On the frist day we had 545 visitors and about 25 new members.
We did not placed a big BETA button. Although we still expect a few errors here and there. Please do not hestitate to contact us hello@streetfiles.org if something strange happens.
it’s about time: after the succesful transfer and implementation of our servers, we are starting the first beta round. from now on selected pioneers will put streetfiles to the acid test to get the system sweating. we are aiming at getting rid of its last bugs within the next 4 weeks in order to finally get this baby on the road.
a few things still need to be done - but with the help or beta testers we will fix those last details, and then will welcome everyone on our site. so let’s get going…
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In the video above you can see the servers on which (of course among some other projects) the final streetfiles website will be hosted (by fortrabbit). They are incredibly loud and produce a lot of heat.
This is the real “green IT” (-: the control lights are blinking green.
Our promotion agency (Lutz) just sent us this photo of one of our graffitinet stickers in Ushuaia, the capital of the Argentinean province Tierra del Fuego.
Soon we will produce new stickers announcing the website’s new name: streetfiles.org
When planning the relaunch of the site with the Graffitinet.com team last summer we didn’t actually think about the old images at all. From our point of view we might as well have started from scratch - but for the Graffitinet guys it was important to keep their 20,000 images.
Migrating such a big amount of data isn’t trivial and takes a lot of time. We spents hours and hours looking through the imagery and discovered heaps of hidden gems. On streetfiles.org it will be way easier to find these gems in the mass of images as of course there is a lot of average stuff as well.
This small selection of 12 pics out of the 20,000 gives a good overview on the wide range of images. They are spanning almost 20 years from the beginning of the nineties till now, and in terms of themes and targets they are at least as diverse.
