The New Fourm

I'm considering using Google Cloud for attachments on The Fourm. Right now attachments are either disabled or there's a very small limit of the total files that can be uploaded. I know this is a thing that Discord provides that is really nice, and while there are free solutions that can work (I've been uploading stuff to imgur and then copying the urls into my posts), they're not user friendly and may not be reliable in the future. I think I found a plugin that would make enable this. I'd still prefer people not go Overboard with attachments since it does cost me money, but it'd be nice to share screenshots and stuff more easily, especially for people who use the forum via mobile. Would people be interested in this?

(For reference, the reason I'd use Google Cloud instead of one of the other big ones is because I'm already using them for our Mastodon instance.)

I would like this! I primarily use mobile for the form cause I'm a loser lol. So it would make it easier for me to post images when I'm live blogging a game!

Update: I'm having an interesting time trying to get this to work. The S3 plugin technically only works with AWS, but the Google Cloud XML API is compatible with S3 so I should just be able to change the endpoints in the code and get it to work. But something's crashing when I do that. Will need to delve into it further.

hatkirby wrote: Thu Jul 17, 2025 1:24 pm Update: I'm having an interesting time trying to get this to work. The S3 plugin technically only works with AWS, but the Google Cloud XML API is compatible with S3 so I should just be able to change the endpoints in the code and get it to work. But something's crashing when I do that. Will need to delve into it further.

Let me know if I can help with testing at all! Ty for looking into it!

I started looking into this a bit ago but I had to edit the extension's code so that it could use Google Cloud instead of AWS (the endpoints are hardcoded which is annoying because really the two services are compatible). I need to take another look at it and try again, I've just been not doing too well lately.

No pressure at all! Please take care of yourself! Using imgur or looking up reference images already posted on line is doing the job.