This may be obvious to some of you, but wasn't for me.
You might be familiar with the problem of linking to an image in your photos album, only to delete another (previous) photo later, and finding that your photo-links are now broken.
It turns out that the image is stored in a location independantly of the photo album, and can be viewed and linked-to directly.
image on album page (susceptible to change)
lithuania.tribe.net/template...ext/pcard
image on its own (permanent until deleted)
louvre.tribe.net/tribe/upl...cb26f1fee1
Props to Harriet for pointing this out.
lithuania.tribe.net/thread/8...b0b7c7c90
You might be familiar with the problem of linking to an image in your photos album, only to delete another (previous) photo later, and finding that your photo-links are now broken.
It turns out that the image is stored in a location independantly of the photo album, and can be viewed and linked-to directly.
image on album page (susceptible to change)
lithuania.tribe.net/template...ext/pcard
image on its own (permanent until deleted)
louvre.tribe.net/tribe/upl...cb26f1fee1
Props to Harriet for pointing this out.
lithuania.tribe.net/thread/8...b0b7c7c90
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Scranton
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10 points to whoever figures out the photo-linking algorhythm and can scroll directly through all photos on tribe with recourse to album-views.
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i'm guessing they use some kind of hash like they do with all the unique identifiers so prediction might be impossible (example, what if they hash information that includes the file name or time/date of upload)
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PS. tribe's ids look a lot like Windows Unique IDs, there might be a relation.
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The format is exactly like UUID / GUID sequences. (Universally Unique IDentifier / Globally Unique IDentifier). Microsoft has certainly popularized them, but I'm not sure if they invented them. There was a stab at an RFC standard, but it doesn't seem to have gotten anywhere:
hegel.ittc.ukans.edu/topics/...s-01.txt
It would not appear to by MD5: the same file uploaded to different locations has a different identifer. There is the possibility that other things are included in the MD5 other than the file itself, which would of course lead to different results. But there is also the bit about the first character after the second hyphen always being 4.
By the way, tribe IDs do not follow the format in that internet draft.
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