Quote from: PowerGlove on July 21, 2024, 11:28:40 PM

Quote from: ChiBitCTy on July 19, 2024, 05:13:38 AM

Would a btalk app be a realistic possibility.

(I'm just kidding, I know you said you're only asking from the perspective of technical curiosity.) Wink

That's a really tough question to answer. From my point of view, the short answer is yes...

The long answer involves all sorts of shit that you and everyone else would probably find incredibly boring. But, basically, I can see a path to eventually getting Bitcointalk to a place where the database remains as-is, but it's "wrapped" in a way that makes it possible for it to service multiple frontends. In that universe, there'd still be the tried-and-true "legacy" frontend for the diehards that want to keep using SMF, but there'd also be one or more "modern" frontends that would be more feature-rich and would be much easier to develop on (right now, adding features to the forum involves way more work/thinking than it really should: SMF is a security-incident minefield; a saner architecture/codebase would allow for development to happen at a much quicker pace). Another way to state my perspective is that I think SMF's database schema and invariants could be maintained (at least, to the extent that the "legacy" frontend wouldn't break), and that, with clever enough engineering, non-SMF frontends could be erected on top of the existing database, allowing a modernization effort to progress without ever actually having to "migrate" anything or anyone.

Quote from: ChiBitCTy on July 19, 2024, 05:13:38 AM

Built in photo upload option. This would be freakn sweet. Not having to use imgur and those of that ilk would be lovely.

Yup, that would be nice! But, like Loyce mentioned, I can't imagine theymos wanting to deal with the hassle of hosting the images directly. I've been thinking for a while now about some kind of distributed image hosting, run on a volunteer-basis by interested forum members. I've also been thinking about a new BBCode tag to specifically reference content-addressable images that are being hosted in this way. If that project ever gets off the ground, then I can see a way to make uploading images feel like a completely built-in feature (but without getting theymos tangled in administrative/legal issues).

Thanks PG!! I appreciate you addressing the app question, have always been curious about this particular topic!

“I've been thinking for a while now about some kind of distributed image hosting, run on a volunteer-basis by interested forum members”. If there’s anything I can ever do to assist, I’m happy to do so, whether on a funding basis or learning to do some basic coding if that’s what’s needed here (I have no clue what this would entail, which will come as no surprise to you lol). This would be such a big deal for us in collectibles who are constantly posting imgs. The other day when using an image upload service it got me to thinking , when I give the service access to my photos , are they able to see all my images instantly , and are they potentially scrapping / saving them as well Huh

Just another privacy concern out of about a million of them atm that I have as I try to clean my act up online.

Cheers