Feature Request: Ability to attach files to PM's

[jrgp]

Yeah, might help small sending files back and forth between members. Takes away the need of using file hosting sites for this purpose.

Opinions?

[a-4-year-old]

attach feature is for the community, not passing around your nudes

[Lapis Lazuli]

jrgp you use like every god damned messenger ever invented, why don't you use any of the myriad of file-sharing services they provide to communicate with your fellow forutards?

Edit:

Just stick with IRC and IM buddy lists.

[echo_trail]

Wouldn't all the data be stored on the sf.com server? I mean, you have to pay for stuff like that, right?

[jrgp]

Wouldn't all the data be stored on the sf.com server? I mean, you have to pay for stuff like that, right?

This server can handle more threads than these forums will likely ever throw at it.  As for speed, SMF is designed for speed and should not need to be purged to keep speed up.

Key points :

• The soldatforums pages and content (including attachments, avatars, images, etc) only takes up 846MB.  824MB of that is attachments.  This is after over a year of being used.
• The forums database (that stores all of the settings, users, posts, threads, PMs and everything else) uses 377MB of space on the server
• The server's main directory where everything is stored, /home, is currently only 3.7GB used.  This includes all of the website and database data for Soldat, Crimson Glory, R, Link-Dead, and everything else for MM's projects
• /home is 137GB in size (three uberfast 73GB hard drives in a multi-disk array for redundancy and extra performance)
• The CPU usage on the server rarely goes above 2% total.  The server is a dual dual-core machine, so it has 4x2.4GHz and 4GB of RAM. 
• For those of you who are initiated in Linux/Unix, the load averages are 0.03 0.08 0.08 right now.

I built this server with future expansion and load in mind.  If we ever run out of disk space, I have room for 4 more disks to add to the /home array, and that can be done with minimal interruption to the server's functions.  The Soldat forums are not a resource concern, and they won't be for a long time

edit: http://sysinfo.wizard.u13.net/

Yes, it most likely would, but I really doubt the addition of PM attachments would exhaust Flies' server's resources.

[echo_trail]

Depending on what people attach, right?

[jrgp]

Depending on what people attach, right?

Of course, but there would be a file size limit

[echo_trail]

Right right... Personally I would never use this, but I imagine it could be usefull to some of you peops out there.

[Lapis Lazuli]

To privately share your crack romz you mean?

[urraka]

I would use this to PM myself files I want to host for free somewhere

Can I PM myself?

I won't bother to try.

[Blue-ninja]

I need this feature so I can attach soldat maps in PMs.

[ElSpec774]

Anyone who bashed this idea is a ****face.

This needs to be added, I wouldn't doubt that other forums have this feature.

[a-4-year-old]

This needs to be added, I wouldn't doubt that other forums have this feature.

other forums also have image macros racism star hunting and karma, but all of them are bad ideas.

[Keron Cyst]

^^ Really? I'd like to get the name of one of those! Seriously, I don't know of any forum software that has this feature. I could imagine it getting really tedious and legally annoying for staff to track abusers of the system since it's all private, in comparison to publoic post attachments. It'd just be too much of a hassle to implement when you already have filesharing websites, or e-mail/IM/those other methods.

Don't be lazy, now

[ElSpec774]

Quake III Arena forum has this feature.  Although I don't check it, I never see any threads that relate to the feature's abuse.