Right, and that's why I need help from those who know its workings intimately; to say whether it's a locked-in world of its own, or has a simple file structure permitting the media gallery to migrate elsewhere if need be.
Thanks for the reply! I'm not worried about keeping my images as attachments. In fact I won't even be using the media gallery for forum attachments at all.
I am trying to make a wholly independent media gallery to feature our media content. But I also want to be as independent of XF's nuts and...
One of the plugins I've been looking a lot lately is the Media Gallery. The biggest thing holding me back is the anxiety of getting too en-meshed into the XF ecosystem, in case of having to migrate my media collection elsewhere in the future.
My ideal analogy is Gmail, vs. something like the...
Thanks so much. It was just a question of permissions, in that I forgot that Facebook (and RSS) see attachments using visitor permissions. There was no problem with how the XF system serves up image attachments.
RSS, Facebook and other such things don't recognize xenforo's links to attached images as true images. I'm surprised I haven't seen more discussion abut this. Is there any way to get the full, standard old-fashioned links to the attached image (with extensions at the end)? Can we use .htaccess...
@Jake Bunce
Ok I tried it out in various configurations. It doesn't seem to actually be a fix, to be honest. Instead of an image, the system serves a <span> with the entire avatar image in the background. The problem is, it still doesn't serve you the cropped avatar. You're still trying to fit...
Hi @Jake Bunce, quick question.
Here's a sample test-case avatar.
If I set the avatar size to medium:
<xen:avatar user="$user" size="m" img="true" />
The result looks as it's supposed to:
(The bottom part of the image is cropped.)
However if I set the avatar to large:
<xen:avatar...
Umm No.
Windows 8 and Apple did that by butchering their UI. The "OSX Yosemite looks terrible!" thread has over 400 posts:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1751546
Improve within the bounds of tradition. Don't jump off a cliff like a lemming.
A feature like Discourage attempts to mask the disapproval by site owners by flooding the user with technical errors.
But all users will get wise to this eventually, and know that they're just being banned. While they're still figuring it out, they'll bombard the site with requests for...