Hey guys,
For our forum, we are currently considering a feature that would require a plugin, but we are not sure if it’s feasible.
Our use case: We have a lot of diary/log topics, and we would like to be able to keep track of which topic the image was originally uploaded to and by which user, so that we can give attribution to the original creator of the image.
Idea for solution: When an image is uploaded for the first time, we want to use the upload_references table to define the post containing the image as the "original” source and expose that information via the image lightbox to the user.
When the same image (same upload ID) is reposted in a different topic, we want the image lightbox to point to the original post.
(Edge case: When the image is downloaded and re-uploaded, it would probably require some hash-based matching to use the topic ID of the original image.)
Is that kind of feature of value or even on the roadmap? Is it even feasible via plugin?