We (few volunteers from the Krita community) have setup a discourse server for the Krita artist community. The setup is very much similar to Blenderartists.org.
Being a forum related to art software the discussions will have a lot of images. From the GDPR perspective discourse provides a way to download the user data from the activities section in profile. However I noticed that the download doesn’t include the images that user has posted to the forum. I would like to ask if there is any way to include the images posted by the users in the downloaded zip files. Is there any plugin to provide such feature?
Technically they still have the URLs so they could just parse and pull them. I worry about image heavy users ending up costing lots and lots of server time when they click the button.
Sorry if this seems a silly idea, will a predetermined time frame given to user to come back for the zip file help. During this period the zip creation can be done when there is less server activity.
I did a post export for the first time since May yesterday and see that it has been given some love, but a strange (to me) choice:
But no images in there and I still see fragments (tested with meta) with very hard to use URLs like:  (note that’s an image I uploaded after the May update).
Putting images in the archive would be a PITA. What we could easily include is the cooked post alongside the raw so images and everything else that is transformed is associated in a standard way that can easily be parsed.
How does that work with the pre-signed URLs option recently introduced? I confess I don’t know much about how that’s implemented, but my fear is that the URLs would not be stable.
If we put the cooked post in like @Falco suggests then the URLs will be /secure-media-uploads/blah. The presigned URL is only generated when the upload is requested from the secure media URL, so you should have no problems.
