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QuikSand
11-19-2003, 09:47 AM
Now that our board has been stripped of the capability to post attachments, I'm wondering if there is a fairly easy way to accomplish the same sort of thing. We've been spoiled by this feature recently -- it has been very nice for things like the GroupThink career, as posting filed directly here was *far* easier than anything else we used before.

Is there a fairly easy way to accomplish the same sort of thing? Might there be another board somewhere that we could use just to post attachments, and then link to there from here when we have them?

I'm not asking for a volunteer from the FOFC community to make a great sacrifice - I don't really now what's involved. I just know that I already miss that capability, and would like to find some way to accomplish something similar if it's painless to do so.

Any clever ideas?

JW27
11-19-2003, 09:48 AM
we need like an upload center, let me look into it

Subby
11-19-2003, 09:54 AM
Quik - I would think the best solution would be to finally leave GameSpy and pony up for our own web host. That way we can run vBulletin AND allow attachments...

Anything else seems like it would get messy.

Daimyo
11-19-2003, 10:56 AM
Well, there was that free (for two years) hosting company someone posted a few days ago. I think they agve 5GB of bandwith per month with each additional GB costing $.99. I think they ony gave 100MB of storage though.

I guess someone could probably set up an account with them and install some free forum software to use (or just use regular ftp uploades and http downloads), but it would probably only be enough for small focused groups and not for the entire fofc community.

QuikSand
11-19-2003, 10:58 AM
Back with the original GroupThink Wyoming Wildfire, I recall that we found such a free webhosting site, shared the password to give everyone save/load privileges, and that was clumsy but okay.

It was damned easy to just attach files here, though. *sigh*