A way to monitor user-uploaded files 🖼️

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

For moderation purposes, it would be useful to be able to see and browse files uploaded by users, especially since users can upload files in personal messages.

Currently, the only ways to see these files, as far as I know, are:

• Browsing the /uploads/ folder

• Using the search with the with:images or filetypes:ext1,ext2,ext3 filters

• Using data explorer

Those are not very practical ways to monitor files uploaded on the forum.

I talked about this feature idea somewhere else but it’s better if it has its dedicated topic.

@Canapin

I remember a site that allowed users to upload images. They had trouble because someone uploaded illegal stuff, and police was involved.
For this reason, they closed their site, and decided to completely prevent image uploads on their other platform for years.

So the idea here is only to monitor and be more proactive, as illegal stuff could still potentially involve legal intervention. Deleting a picture doesn’t mean it never existed

@RGJ

I can’t even imagine that in 12 years of Discourse nobody built a media library plugin that’s similar to what Wordpress has. It would be so cool!

Even without going as far as a media library, being able to monitor these files would be great.

For example, a new admin route that displays all recently uploaded files, with a few filters:

• Dates

• Users

• File types