Does anyone use Xenforo as a photo sharing site where people can upload photos and comment on them? Any examples?
Using Xenforo as a Photo Sharing Site?
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On ZooChat, we have a large collection of photos (nearly 650,000) from zoos around the world - currently still running on XF 1.5, but I hope to upgrade to XF 2.x by the end of the year once I've finished migrating my custom addons.
I am looking at making some fairly major changes to the way we display and manage images - I'd like each photo to have its own dedicated discussion thread, kind of like how resources do - because we do often get very lengthy discussions about an individual photo. But that's a longer term project.
Thanks for sharing your site! Looks great!On ZooChat, we have a large collection of photos (nearly 650,000) from zoos around the world - currently still running on XF 1.5, but I hope to upgrade to XF 2.x by the end of the year once I've finished migrating my custom addons.
I am looking at making some fairly major changes to the way we display and manage images - I'd like each photo to have its own dedicated discussion thread, kind of like how resources do - because we do often get very lengthy discussions about an individual photo. But that's a longer term project.
I just did this for a client a few weeks ago that wanted associated threads for each media item instead of using comments. So simple to knock out a Thread Type and Forum Type just like XFRM. Works great and they love it
Are they still using XFMG to store the media - or is it completely independent?
I'll still need the bulk-upload capabilities of XFMG because users typically upload images in batches of 50-100 photos at a time - each time they visit a zoo.
XFMG
I implemented a Forum Type and Thread Type (same as XFRM and dozens of addons of mine) for the purpose of having associated discussion threads for Media Items. Of course, there is a bit more than just implementing Forum and Thread types, but the point is, what you want to do is easily doable in XFMG (just as it is in XFRM). You will have no problem knocking it out 
Based on what I see in the thread, the tendency is usually to create an image gallery as a complement to the forum. In my case, I have started a new project that completely dispenses with nodes and relies solely on XFMG. It's a very specific local niche that aims for the cultural preservation of photographs, so user interaction is not a worry for me.
No, but if I did, I would have the forum sitting on the server and all images are uploaded directly to R2, converted into webp and cached for a year, add a {UUID} to each one so you never have to purge a cache for image delete and lock the bucket to a sub-domain which CF will handle SSL and such for automagically. Cheap way to do it compared to buying storage on your server, and every image is already in a CDN at the edge globally, you aren't fighting storage costs nor bandwidth.
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