Cut off Extensions in media name

[Geiri]

I would like to suggest that the Extension name will be cut from the Media names for a cleaner gallery (.jpg .png. gif etc).
Name.jpg will be Name

I know this has been mentioned before but I don't see a suggestion

 

[Deleted member 184953]

I understand this suggestion but it doesn't go far enough... Many members upload photos with names like IMG-078_20220813.jpg and in this case simply removing the extension does not help much... Unfortunately it there's not much you can do about it except forcing members to rename their uploaded photos.

 

[Geiri]

@nicodak I understand you. But Correctly named photos would benefit from this. There is no reason to add to the clutter.
We could also suggest a mandatory name change..

 

[TPerry]

How about not even inputting the image name and forcing the user to simply enter the name to use?

 

[Geiri]

@Tracy Perry Might be a good Idea but somewhat delicate if users are uploading many photos at once. The interface needs to be simple..

 

[TPerry]

@Tracy Perry Might be a good Idea but somewhat delicate if users are uploading many photos at once. The interface needs to be simple..

And they can be prompted (and take the time) to give a name to each one. Image72342343, Image 23742397423, Image103283427 looks NO better than having the extension on them. At least with having the extension, you know what image format they are in.
When I refer to "naming" them.. I refer to giving them a title. I REALLY don't want to go into a media gallery and see a title of Image23423423423. I'd rather see View from the mountain of the bay, and I'm sure most viewers would do the same.

 

[StarArmy]

This is a great suggestion. I'm currently uploading hundreds of images and it would be great if "2024 Cloning Tube Scene by Wes.png" would automatically be titled as "2024 Cloning Tube Scene by Wes" instead of "2024 Cloning Tube Scene by Wes.webm" (I am using the image format conversion feature).

 

[Opus X]

it really looks ugly with putting the extension in the name.
i think it is even more apparent with the use of webp.

 

[Ferry]

That's a good idea.

 

[Levina]

Someone here suggested modification of a few templates to remove the extension. I tried it and it worked. Turned out that unfortunately it only hides the extension but it's still in the URL and if you edit the title e.g. the extension is still there too. So that didn't work.

Here's the discussion: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/some-questions-issues-with-xfmg.230694/post-1743844

I asked for more help with it but Gemma's account was deleted. So I reverted the templates back to their original state. Maybe someone else can help to get the code right?

Forcing members to replace generic camera names with a brief description isn't going to work. You will lose people if you do because members don't care about these things. They just want to post pics and don't want to be forced to rename each pic. And I can't blame them. I recently visited a site who had exactly this in place and I wasn't going to do it either so I just left.

 

[island]

Could a regex be used upon upload to detect names such as IMG-41564546546.jpg or DSC_1025.jpg -- if these are detected, do not auto-fill the title field but require the user to supply a photo title?

Then that could be combined with this to remove file extensions, so if users upload media with descriptive file names, those file names are kept but if users upload out-of-camera file names, they must supply a title for the media.