We ara a forum about photography. We want people to upload the photos to our site, from their computer or an url. But we want photos to reside in our servers, not display photos from other sites like Flickr. But people are used to insert Flickr BB code and insist in using code like: [url=https:/…

Add *flic.kr*, *flickr.com* etc inside the watched word field at /admin/logs/watched_words/action. You can choose to block the words (users will see a warning if they try to add those kind of links), or you can choose from the other available options. [image] ariznaf: It would be great if the…

[image] ariznaf: It would be great if the system transformed the xxxx into a inserted image uploaded from corresponding url It seems not that complicated to implement, technically. But, there would probably be a legal/copyright problem: If the user didn’t upload the image to your forum and on…

[image] ariznaf: It would be great if the system transformed the xxxx into a inserted image uploaded from corresponding url. See site setting download remote images to local: Convert remote images to local images by downloading them; this prevents broken images.

That’s a function available by default in Discourse ? What do you think about the legal aspect mentioned above ?

Legally what is illegal is hotlinking, showing an image in your forum that is hosted in another site. You ar consuming their bandwidth, and if you have no rights to do it, you are breaking legal rights. In the case that the owner of the image in Flickr is linking the page in our forum, I don’t see…

Thank you Daniela. That may be an option, don’t let them use Flickr at all. But giving the path to the Flickr original file is ok for us, but we want the image to be shown from our site, and lightbox work on our forum, don’t take our users to Flickr (or other similar sites) when they click in the …

sometimes, a gif is too big, someone posts it, too big , not uploaded to the site. but still nice to be able to show it from the original url …

Prevent inserting images from other websites (flickr, facebook...)

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) October 12, 2019, 12:26pm 4

See site setting download remote images to local: Convert remote images to local images by downloading them; this prevents broken images.

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