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I just discovered the forum has a new feature:

You can now add attachments to your posting. I tried it out and it fucking works!
Fuck yeah!

I just uploaded my mods treasurer and conveyor_belt as forum attachments.

Finally no silly external hosting! Finally no “TROLOLO WE ARE OMPLOADER! US HAD EATED UR FILEZ!!! HURRRR DURRRRRR!” anymore (well, at least in the future). Thank you!

But there could be some improvements though, because:

Sadly, it did not allow me to upload my two JPEG images for my experimental conveyor_belt mod because of the extension “.jpg”. Both were about 30 KiB small each. Come on, 30 KiB should not be a problem because that’s about just twice the size of my treasurer mod. :D

I think filtering solely based on file endings is stupid. File suffixes are unreliable to determine file contents. The filter can thus easily be fooled by using an allowed suffix and asking the users to change it manually after download. But for images, this is just extremely inconvenient, of course. I think you should bother about raw file size and not care about the file contents.

Speaking about file sizes: How large (maximum) may/should the uploaded files be? I don’t want to clutter the disk storage right now. ;-)

Still GitHub is better for files etc.

Wuzzy wrote:Sadly, it did not allow me to upload my two JPEG images for my experimental conveyor_belt mod because of the extension “.jpg”.

Attachments should be used for hosting files, not images.

Wuzzy wrote:How large (maximum) may/should the uploaded files be?

IIRC there is a limit of 30 MB

sfan5 wrote:Attachments should be used for hosting files, not images.

This does not make sense to me because images are files. If files are acceptable to you, then images should be acceptable, to you. And I don’t see what’s so bad about images.

sfan5 wrote:

Wuzzy wrote:How large (maximum) may/should the uploaded files be?

IIRC there is a limit of 30 MB

OK that’s enough. :-)

I noticed another thing: It is not possible to get rid of an accidently uploaded file, even if the thread is not even posted yet. Even if I close the browser window before posting and start over, the file just appears again. Here is the result of this: https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=7498
playertools_1.0.zip was not intended to be uploaded. I wish to get rid of it.

Dan Duncombe wrote:Still GitHub is better for files etc.

No. Github is good for for git repos, nothing else.

PilzAdam wrote:

Dan Duncombe wrote:Still GitHub is better for files etc.

No. Github is good for for git repos, nothing else.

So, what if you do about 5 updates in an hour? Apparentlyyou can't remove the links,so poop. Also, what about if people want to do pullrequests etc? Then what?
And afaik you can't do things like git clone forum uploads.

Wuzzy wrote:

sfan5 wrote:Attachments should be used for hosting files, not images.

This does not make sense to me because images are files. If files are acceptable to you, then images should be acceptable, to you. And I don’t see what’s so bad about images.

Use sites such as [url=imgur.com]Imgur[/url] or Minus for hosting images, not the forum.

Wuzzy wrote:I noticed another thing: It is not possible to get rid of an accidently uploaded file, even if the thread is not even posted yet. Even if I close the browser window before posting and start over, the file just appears again. Here is the result of this: https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=7498
playertools_1.0.zip was not intended to be uploaded. I wish to get rid of it.

That is intended

BTW: I deleted the file for you

Not being able to delete files is meant to avoid users ragequitting and nuking the mods out of existence, like has happened in the past.

There should be a way to request a delete when you hit the delete button.

kaeza wrote:Not being able to delete files is meant to avoid users ragequitting and nuking the mods out of existence, like has happened in the past.

I confirm this.

Wuzzy wrote:Sadly, it did not allow me to upload my two JPEG images for my experimental conveyor_belt mod because of the extension “.jpg”. Both were about 30 KiB small each. Come on, 30 KiB should not be a problem because that’s about just twice the size of my treasurer mod. :D

http://irc.minetest.ru/minetest-dev/2013-10-21#i_3385391

File size limit is set to 30 megabytes.

jojoa1997 wrote:There should be a way to request a delete when you hit the delete button.

Better approach than deleting files would be to mark them as deleted so that users don't see them but administrators can still access those files. It's not really surprising the extension we use now doesn't support this. It's punbb, after all.

xyz wrote:

kaeza wrote:Not being able to delete files is meant to avoid users ragequitting and nuking the mods out of existence, like has happened in the past.

I confirm this.

Wuzzy wrote:Sadly, it did not allow me to upload my two JPEG images for my experimental conveyor_belt mod because of the extension “.jpg”. Both were about 30 KiB small each. Come on, 30 KiB should not be a problem because that’s about just twice the size of my treasurer mod. :D

http://irc.minetest.ru/minetest-dev/2013-10-21#i_3385391

File size limit is set to 30 megabytes.

jojoa1997 wrote:There should be a way to request a delete when you hit the delete button.

Better approach than deleting files would be to mark them as deleted so that users don't see them but administrators can still access those files. It's not really surprising the extension we use now doesn't support this. It's punbb, after all.

well I met removing it from public view

kaeza wrote:Not being able to delete files is meant to avoid users ragequitting and nuking the mods out of existence, like has happened in the past.

Okay, this is indeed a strong argument. I can remember seeing some posts from an user here which only consisted of a period (apparently the post’s content was wiped out by editing).

I would hate it to see things like this to ever happen again.

sfan5 wrote:BTW: I deleted the file for you

Thanks.