I’m not a frontend guy by any means so all of this may be nonsensical, but hold my beer…
AI upload modal
I propose that there could be an “AI doc” button in the composer’s toolbar which launches a special AI upload modal (via which the user can select standard or enhanced processing and some other settings). Then the topic/post can either be (and perhaps there could be a site setting to determine this behavior):
- Greyed out and invisible to others in the thread except to the user posting until the processing is completed — after which, it becomes publicly visible. OR…
- The post could be saved as a draft and the upload continues in the background. When opened it shows that AI upload modal with the upload progress. Essentially disallowing publishing until the AI upload is either finished or canceled.
- In both cases, there could be a setting which allows sending a notification to the user when their upload has finished.
Keeping track of uploads
In regard to tracking the uploads throughout the topic, a list of the files with their associated post number (plus perhaps size, etc.) could be injected in this location under the topic stats:
