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EionRobb
Support file attachments (uploads)
Any reason you would actually want this, as opposed to uploading it somewhere else and linking (possibly better for privacy as well, depending how DiscordBot behaves)?
One can't really denny that just choosing the file and uploading it in-chat is more practical, for people who doesn't have some shell script to upload from the terminal or file browser.
Sure, I can: a Pidgin plugin could intercept files and instead upload to a selected host, substituting in a link at will.
Hey, Ferb, I knew what we're going to do today!
It's a question of convenience.
I can drag a file into the Discord client (or select it as an attachment) and it will upload it to the Discord servers and post a link. It works pretty well for channels, if the file size is below the limit, and for private conversations, if the files are not treated as actually private.
I guess the most flexible solution would be to support it with an option to specify a different upload host to upload to, as @bobbybee mentioned above.
And yes, it can be done manually, but it is less convenient.
I guess the most flexible solution would be to support it with an option to specify a different upload host to upload to, as @bobbybee mentioned above.
More specifically, that this should be handled in Pidgin (or whatever people use) rather than in this prpl. I'm not even sure the prpl could implement this in a convenient generic way...
I haven't played with Pidgin/libpurple stuff in a little while; you'd have to ask Eion about that.
Maybe you could execute a script and redirect its output to the message box, having a default host be a simple one like catbox.moe which supports curl upload.
Oh and, maybe this'd be better as a standalone plugin, I don't see why have it only work on Discord.
Oh and, maybe this'd be better as a standalone plugin, I don't see why have it only work on Discord.
^^ Exactly. I'm not opposed at all to the idea -- I'd just like it to work on XMPP too. No changes required on our end! :)
Well surely its libpurple part. For example telegram-purple implements file sending thata available from pidgin. So not adding file sending support amd saying "do it yourself we dont care about fixing this bug" its not nice caus it is a bug and missing functionality.
I'm keen to see 'native' Discord file transfers too, so some of us do care about adding this feature (not "fixing this bug") :)
It'll just happen faster if someone else feels like giving it a try to add support for it.
I agree any kind of general upload-paste-link feature should be a plugin which works with all protocols - file transfers aren't supported by a lot of the plugins as it is.
Images uploaded to any host may be taken down without any notice (remember the photobucket catastrophe?). Theoretically, images uploaded to Discord should stay up for as long as Discord is up. Discord might also one day go down without any notice, but at least everyone should start moving to a different protocol instead. Also, as far as I know, Pidgin doesn't have any link preview plugins that will embed images.
Also, as far as I know, Pidgin doesn't have any link preview plugins that will embed images.
Kiiiind of, there's an ancient plugin that would embed videos and allegedly images. But I don't remember it working anymore and the outdated dependencies make it hard to compile and, frankly, are excesive. Why do I need webkit's huge dev packages when pidgin can embed simple media on its own via html tags?
Also, as far as I know, Pidgin doesn't have any link preview plugins that will embed images.
Not sure what it is, but there's something currently in use to allow for custom emojis to show up appropriately.
Pidgin doesn't have any link preview plugins that will embed images.
Google Hangouts plugin has. I don't use the plugin now (and don't know how exactly it works) but I could see preview images that was sent to me and also I could easily drop an image to chat window and send it to someone.
In the official Discord client, I use the feature of uploading images from the clipboard a lot (just crl+v on the text input). It would be wonderful to have it working on this plugin.
