Please where are images and videos stored in Discourse? Our users would be uploading pictures and videos. For now, I would like to use DropBox. How do I configure this? Also, is Vimeo supported? Finally, between Vimeo, DropBox and Amazon S3, which is the best option?

[image] oga: Holy COW !! “OneBox” is cool. How do I enable it and make it available to all users? I am self hosted. You already did. Have you tried it on your own site? [image] oga: I am of the opinion storing them on same vm will end up causing performance issues for large communities; …

If you’re self-hosted, they are typically stored on the same VM where you’re running Discourse. You can also Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads . Unless you expect your users to upload videos to Vimeo or whatever there and share that link, there is (mostly?) no way to use …

Ahh, thanks. I am of the opinion storing them on same vm will end up causing performance issues for large communities; am I wrong? (2) Here is a scenario I am trying to get figured out. (a) User abc who is community user is posting an article that includes a picture or even a video. (b) User abc …

Try those things out on https://try.discourse.org/ and see for yourself. Then you can tell for sure and won’t wonder whether we mean the same thing by stuff like “appear as part of the article OR will it just be a LINK that points to the image location in S3”. And images are different from videos.

Holy COW !! “OneBox” is cool. How do I enable it and make it available to all users? I am self hosted.

Recommend a Cheap and reasonable CDN that works great with Discourse. I am loving this. Completed work on Ghost Blog integration.

I’ve been happy with bunny.net .

Where are Images and uploads stored?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) July 22, 2024, 5:58pm 6

You already did. Have you tried it on your own site?

Mostly, but you can configure a CDN without bothering to set up S3.

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