# Drag and drop from desktop vs other browser window
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/drag-and-drop-from-desktop-vs-other-browser-window/16901
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [Junho 26, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/drag-and-drop-from-desktop-vs-other-browser-window/16901 "2014-06-26T20:35:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@chrisallick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chrisallick)
#### Post date: [Junho 26, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/drag-and-drop-from-desktop-vs-other-browser-window/16901/1 "2014-06-26T20:35:03Z")
I noticed when I dragged and dropped an image from the desktop it auto-uploaded and showed up in the preview, but when I dragged an image from another browser window it did nothing.
1. is there a way to turn that on in settings?
2. is there a way to use imgur for image uploads?
3. is there a way to have drag and dropped images from another browser window turn into an image tag?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [Junho 26, 2014, 9:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/drag-and-drop-from-desktop-vs-other-browser-window/16901/2 "2014-06-26T21:59:13Z")
> [@chrisallick](#):
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> 1. is there a way to turn that on in settings?
Nope since it’s not a setting. Haven’t tried it but this might require some code change to handle this use case.
> [@chrisallick](#):
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> 1. is there a way to use imgur for image uploads?
Nope. Right now we barely only support S3 as external storage. Feel free to build that as a plugin though.
> [@chrisallick](#):
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> 1. is there a way to have drag and dropped images from another browser window turn into an image tag?
Why would you need that?
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### Author:  [@chrisallick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chrisallick)
#### Post date: [Junho 26, 2014, 11:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/drag-and-drop-from-desktop-vs-other-browser-window/16901/3 "2014-06-26T23:16:03Z")
So I would imagine the flow as
1. user drops image into comment
2. dropped asset comes from desktop or is url
3. either way ajax upload to s3 (or using imgur api to save space and money) and return url
4. display as img tag
I have not developed a plugin for discourse yet, just launched my server, but it would rather simple so maybe i’ll take a crack at it.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [Dezembro 4, 2025, 11:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/drag-and-drop-from-desktop-vs-other-browser-window/16901/4 "2025-12-04T11:31:03Z")