Use filesystem to store uploads
alx opened this issue · comments
Hi,
thanks for this app, it looks really great (as simple as etherpad-lite for img upload).
Do you plan to use filesystem to store the uploaded file if Amazon S3 has not been configured?
I'll check the route/index.js and submit a pull request if I've got some time this weekend :)
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Alex
Yeah, that should be quite easy to do, since the files are already stored on the filesystem temporarily before they are sent to Amazon S3. Might be useful for local testing.
This also makes me wonder if it might be worth packaging an offline version of this for the Chrome Web Store and other browser marketplaces, with the option of saving images back to your harddrive or uploading them to the service. Could be useful for saving clipboard images or quickly cropping images that you have. If I were to add more image editing options, this would actually make a lot of sense.
i have another idea (dont know how to code it sorry :/)
to make it connect to ckeditor , tinyMCE.. and more and make it the image upload system instead of the default one they give
I also see that this tool could be used by my dev team to share images without having any hosting skills.
In order to use this tool with this features, could we store files to local repository?
Couldn't you just use http://pasteboard.co/ for that, instead of running your own version of it?
That's the main point of the web app, to share images with others. You shouldn't have to set up and host your own copy of it. While you could of course do that, that's not my main reason for keeping this open source. I've open sourced this for people to learn from the code and possibly contribute to it, not for everyone to run their own version of the app.
I just tough using this tool for confidential files for our projects, not for hosting beautiful photos taken from my camera.
If not possible, I can understand that, I'm not blaming it. Anyway, Github is for me a sharing tool and everything I manage to achieve in others tools is shared.
Sure, I can see how you wouldn't want to use the site at its current state for sharing confidential images. I'll make sure to add the feature of falling back to using the local filesystem instead of Amazon S3 if no credentials are given.
I would like to add features to Pasteboard that give users more control of their images, and that might involve better privacy control. At the moment, any image that you upload will be visible for anyone, but unless people know the URL to your image, they won't find it. This is how most image sharing services work.
Oups, might have messed with the issue numbers, current pull-request on this issue is available in #4
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