11 Facts About Fotki

Fotki is a digital photo sharing, video sharing and media social network website and web service suite; it is one of the world's largest social networking sites.

Fotki was founded in 1997 by Dmitri Don and his Katrin Lilleoks to store and share photos and communicate with others around the world.

Since 2003, Fotki is a registered trade mark in the USA.

Fotki stated they could no longer support free members since they were doing away with ads.

When logged in, Fotki users have access to management tools which allow editing, moving or deleting their content, changing properties of the content, changing account settings and restricting access to the content if needed.

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Fotki allows for XML-based RSS and Atom feeds, as well as external linking and sending invites to view content.

Fotki offers a unique video hosting service, which allows uploading and storing videos and photos together in one album.

Fotki has been mostly criticized for not providing enough storage space to its Free members, problems with hotlinking, no month-to-month membership, and traffic limit.

In October 2006, several Fotki members posted messages in the Fotki blog protesting against the then-current contest rules which apparently allowed the earlier entrants to receive more exposure and thus get more votes.

Fotki sent out a message in June 2012 to all of its subscribers, notifying them of its financial situation and the resulting need for extra support for the storage of the original full-sized images.

Fotki stated they could no longer support free members since they were doing away with ads and on October 1,2015 all free members accounts would be deleted.