forum attachments

I do not know what forum software this forum runs on but if it supports forum attachment then i think it would be good to allow forum attachment. i mean like images and maybe level file or something if they do not upload to the site in other way. it will be useful because i do not understand how image embed can work on the forum, it does not work when i test with image.

GREETINGS ^_^

These forums effectively run a custom software at this point, so it would need someone to implement it. But I do not feel the desire to implement the ability to upload files directly to the site, I would rather skip the hassle of dealing with that.

You can embed images from other sites here, but principia-web employs a CSP for security reasons that restricts what domains a browser will connect to. Currently Github and Imgur are part of the image whitelist, but I can add others such as Postimages upon request. To embed an image, you use typical Markdown syntax, like such:

![](https://files.voxelmanip.se/misc/iso.webp)

Posted by ROllerozxa

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Currently Github and Imgur are part of the image whitelist, but I can add others such as Postimages upon request.

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I had apparently ended up adding Postimages to the whitelist after writing. I would recommend it over Imgur nowadays IMO. Simply pasting an image from your clipboard when going to postimages.org should be able to upload it, and on the resulting page you can find the snippet to copy for these forums under the "Github-Reddit markdown" section:

Third-party image hosts can be bad to rely on, since it has shown time and time again over the years that running a service where everyone can stuff images onto your server to hotlink from for free is not economically feasible. Sooner or later it will go under, turn images into advertisements, or worse, and the fallout will be thousands of broken images on forums and other websites. Imgur has slowly been transforming itself from a image hosting site to a meme site (I mean it literally) and using it for the original intended purpose of hotlinking is against their ToS now.

Postimages has been around for a long time now and seem to be stable throughout it, but their monetisation strategy remains questionable and I have no idea how long it will last. However the hope is that images that get posted will be scraped and archived in the meantime, by me or by other archivists.