Community Suggestion Allow media uploads less than 20MB to the forums

[northnortheast]

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.

 

[Blitzsuo]

I think they capped it lower to prevent server overload (DoS).
Why don't you use medal? You can save clips until your storage limit is reached. When you reach your storage limit, just delete the old files, and you can easily keep uploading clips, etc.

 

[Foga]

"YouTube requires you to follow their community guidelines and can remove/restrict videos that contain copyrighted content" This will almost never happen to unlisted videos. There are so many alternatives. the cost to host all this would not be worth it when these alternatives exist

alternatives- Google drive, IMGBB, PostImages, Medial, flickr

also for imgur as someone from the uk it takes 3 minutes to download a free vpn