Hi, I remember there were attachments supported while posting.
What happened?

No, Attachments never were supported.

neverendingo wrote:No, Attachments never were supported.

They were: viewtopic.php?f=221&t=101336#p219150

And I am teaching my users to use them because content placed on external sites sometimes disappears what would make the value (and idea) of forums degraded.

Must have missed a memo... Anyway, it should be fixed now.

The reason i remember why we initially didn't have attachments enabled at all was that we have nice servers, but not enough disk space to serve files over years. Once started you soon have way too many attachments.
But no, the primary idea of forums is to communicate and not to leave files. There are even better providers for such cases out there.

Aaanyway, memo missed, issue fixed.

We had a discussion and based on our original plan, we have disabled attachments again and we don't plan to enable them for security reasons. Please use third party hosts for your files and images.

sayakb wrote:We had a discussion and based on our original plan, we have disabled attachments again and we don't plan to enable them for security reasons. Please use third party hosts for your files and images.

I understand. Any chance to provide some automation in this area like pre-selecting image hosting site in the [Img] button?
Without easy way to include screenshot of actual problem on General Help forums we may see usage redundant systems like email or wikis or similar means. At least bugzilla has attachments but it's not user friendly and definitely is a developer-only tool.

But now I wonder: without attachments it's a problem to consider the forum as real (real) replacement for mailing lists. The latter supports any attachments, like small binary files. I know no photo sharing site that supports that.

We shouldn't probably make any suggestions in that direction, but there are various file hosts around, pretty much like text or image bins. And not forgetting all the cloud spaces you can have these days.

That reminds me, would be a nice addition to the pastebin widget to also support such services...

As a sidequestion, out of curiousity, what are you trying to replace? The user mailinglist or the develop mailinglist? For the latter there are possibly also better fitting places in this forum area.

I am trying to replace both user mailing lists and contributors mailing lists. Note, I did not say developer lists. Contributors are people involved not necessary in core programming but testing, bug triaging, planning, marketing, documentation, i18n, web pages, graphics, templates, examples, demos, and what not. If we count them all, far more people than 'real' developers. Many many of them do not have very technical technical background (e.g. to maintain large amounts of unstructured untagged emails in their inbox), it's even better when many of them do not have the background.