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It's an idea, Thiink... It could be done with access to forum members only. That's not too much of a problem. But from my point-of-view, uploading attachments means that it will just give me a headache months from now when i need to delete attachments and i don't know who's uploaded what. Or people uploaded files that were never linked to any post. It needs to be integrated with the forum.
But I agree. The way vbulletin stores attachments is an admistration nightmare and a PIA for users because of file size limits. If there wasn't restrictions, the daily backups would get ridiculously large very quickly. Right now, we're just trying to defer the inevitable because the daily database backups are growing exponentially as it is. I'm downloading gigabytes a month just for backups because i can't do incremental backups with the database.
The options are, either upgrade the forum to the new vbulletin that apparently has a sane attachment config, or change forums entirely. I'd prefer to go to the free and open source phpbb.
As it stands, it's ridiculous having image forums without allowing large high resolution images to be uploaded. And the actual image size should be automatically changed to a tumbnail/link if it's bigger than the forum. But this version can't do it.
I've spent some hours converting vbulletin to phpbb and it seems to work, but it doesn't have everything we need without alot of addons. So i'm waiting for the new phpbb to go stable, and then we can see if we will spend more money on ongoing forum fees with vbulletin or go with the free phpbb forum.
Stand-by. The attachements on this forum bother me as much as they bother you.
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