I am considering Discourse for a small, private community where file sharing might be required. I know people can attach a file, but it there any Library function that groups files together? Either inherently or as a plugin or integration with an outside thing (Dropbox, Google Drive) Thanks, Rob.

It’d be best to set up those areas in a dedicated file sharing site, then provide links to them. Discourse just isn’t built with the idea of being a file sharing tool as a primary use case.

[image] RobOK: Library function that groups files together? Can you explain what you mean by this, perhaps with an example?

Thanks for the reply! That users could have a link and go to a “File Area” that then had folders where like documents are grouped and organized. So it would be like a Google Drive but much more limited, just an area to collect reference documents that are of use broader than any one thread. (Not to…

Thanks, that was what i was thinking but thought maybe there was an extension or a specific integration of one of the services.

It seems to work for images only, but something like this might be related to your request https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-previews/101646/660

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) July 28, 2020, 6:04am 3

Can you explain what you mean by this, perhaps with an example?

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