I’m not anykind power user, but I’m using this on shell:
cd /var/discourse/shared/standalone
du -sh * | sort -h
And after that I’m figuring out what to do next.
But nowadays videos and photos are huge hogs eating up all space. Videos are, and has always been, big in byte sizes. After everyone thought that more gigas means better photos thouse has started to be real issue too.
It is just waste of time to try educate users to do optimized images (and most of phones can’t even do it; that’s true specially with iPhones where such basic operation as downsizing images is not offered as a tool by OS itself, but it needs extra work.
Sure, Discourse does something, but on forums that use heavily images — it is more or less even standard today — it is not enough.
There is too options to do AFAIK:
- use very low limit for size of downloads (and your users will be pissed off because theirs superhypergigaimages will be rejected)
- doesn’t allow videos at all (and you users will be pissed off again because they just doesn’t want to use Youtube or similar because billion dollar socia media platforms allow videos)
This is a war we small fishes are already lost.
I’m using S3 as CDN but those fees starts to choke me.