Manage Attachments - User Based

[Stinky666]

How about the feature so individual members can manage their own attachments.
When you  click "add attachment" it would then have another option for "manage attachments", then it shows a list of all attachments you (the individual member) have previously uploaded to your posts.

Maybe if that is too heavy, then perhaps just have it show the last 5 or 10? Perhaps even make that as an option for Admins to set as..

[Ryan Roos]

A member can manage their own attachments directly from their posts. They can view their own posts and even filter using keywords to narrow it down (ie. search the word '[attachment' to bring up all posts with attachment tags). We're currently building the admin management page for attachments. Giving members control over their own attachments is only going to create a false impressions of how attachments work. Attachments belong to the forum, not the member. They are uploaded to the forum and managed by the admin from the forum's attachment page. They are not a "member's attachments" they are literally a pool that contributes to the forum. The amount of storage available is forum based, setup from whatever storage plan is being used. We provide a lot of space for free. But there will be forum plans to upgrade the storage (and file size and amount of files per post). The admin will manage this. That makes them in charge of all attachments. They decide what to keep or delete if storage is getting tight, etc.

Here's a quick issue I see with this for example. A member has an attachment page in their profile, let's say. They have 20 attachments today. Tonight the admin goes in and start cleaning out attachments for space. Tomorrow the member notices 4 attachments missing from their profile. A dispute arises. The member is mad the admin deleted "their" attachments. When in reality the attachments are on the entire forum's data plan. they aren't the members at all.

I gave a way for you to currently find all your own attachments. I explained why attachments don't belong to members. And hopefully I explained why this wont be a feature. Thank you for the idea though.

[Stinky666]

Just to pick up on that last note though, surely if an admin was to do such a thing, and were aware that it could delete/remove a persons attachment(s), they would make some form of topic saying "Doing some cleaning. All attachments uploaded before X date are going to be removed. All attachments in X board will be untouched", or you know, people would be responsible.


But it's ok, it's not something I think is a must, I just honestly know of other forums that have it as a feature and figured it is indeed useful.
But the only main use for it is so you can see all your own attachments as a user, but if we can do that via search, that's great.

[Ryan Roos]

Yeah it just really isn't how attachments are set up conceptually on ProBoards. It's possible in the future that we can/will add something like you requested. But for now members can just search for '[attachment' to see all their attachments. And the admin will manage the storage space for the forum.