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July 17, 2023, 10:41am
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@DavidLaw this sounds very interesting.
But please understand that Discourse forums are not a file store for arbitrary files. You can upload photos but not Excel and not zip files. See my recent reminder about this a couple of days ago.
Ask people to PM you if they want copies from you.
Hello @casinir64 . Many users of Discourse forums, of which there are thousands (of forums, that is), often request the use of the forums as a file repository and storage mechanism. The Discourse developers stress that Discourse is not a file sharing application and never will be. We allow images - crucial - and audio, but not general files. That’s why zip is not supported. A very good reason for this is disk space. How much space to provide? And it’s never enough. An issue is that add on disk space volumes at most of the cloud services, including one I use (DigitalOcean) have quite high monthly costs, and are most certainly not free.
The standard answer to this is to find a storage service and provide a link there. Dropbox for example is a simple solution. Alternatively, let people PM you if they are interested and you can send them the files.
Some Discourse admins ban PDF uploads (for reasons which are too technical to detail here) but I allow them.