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Suggestion Title: Allow media uploads less than 20MB to the forums
Suggestion Description: Images can already be uploaded to the forums servers but media (i.e. videos) must be exported to a third party provider first. I am suggesting the ability to upload media less than 20 MB directly to the forums. This would be restricted to actual registered users and would be limited to a certain number of uploads per day if storage is a concern.
Why should this be added?:
Uploading to third party providers is a pain to do and often unreliable (YouTube requires you to follow their community guidelines and can remove/restrict videos that contain copyrighted content, Streamable deletes your videos after a certain period of time, and Imgur is blocked in the UK.)
Important evidence and bug information can be lost or become unavailable.
Quality of life: files are centralised and should be just as easy as uploading images.
What negatives could this have?:
Subject to server storage availability.
I'm not a frontend backend inside outside shake it all about developer so perhaps there's something I've missed.
What problem would this suggestion solve?: See above - the loss of evidence/media and having to re-upload it.
Suggestion Description: Images can already be uploaded to the forums servers but media (i.e. videos) must be exported to a third party provider first. I am suggesting the ability to upload media less than 20 MB directly to the forums. This would be restricted to actual registered users and would be limited to a certain number of uploads per day if storage is a concern.
Why should this be added?:
Uploading to third party providers is a pain to do and often unreliable (YouTube requires you to follow their community guidelines and can remove/restrict videos that contain copyrighted content, Streamable deletes your videos after a certain period of time, and Imgur is blocked in the UK.)
Important evidence and bug information can be lost or become unavailable.
Quality of life: files are centralised and should be just as easy as uploading images.
What negatives could this have?:
Subject to server storage availability.
I'm not a frontend backend inside outside shake it all about developer so perhaps there's something I've missed.
What problem would this suggestion solve?: See above - the loss of evidence/media and having to re-upload it.
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