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Originally Posted by snotek

It would seem as though we have a need for this, but some updates and new features would be nice - so long as vB 3.7.x doesn't allow this already. We're not going to install this until we update though. Soon.

We run an information based site and notable threads get placed in our archives. Currently the mods have to manually edit the source of every external image and upload it as an attachment before moving the thread(s) to the archives.

This mod would make this work effort obsolete.

Questions:
If two people link to the same offsite image but in different threads, does this mod track that and link to the same image? Or does it simply cache it again.

Can this mod be made so that instead of caching the images it simply makes them an "attachment" as the user that posted the thread?

Are any future updates planned for this mod or is it final as-is?

Are there options that allow us to determine which images get cached and which don't?

Is there a way to clean up the cache over time for images that are in threads that we are not archiving and are no longer relevant?

It works on my 3.7.x forums as-is perfectly well.

• If two people link to the same offsite image but in different threads, does this mod track that and link to the same image? Or does it simply cache it again? The images are cached again. However, if a user copies an already cached image, it will just copy the reference.
• Can this mod be made so that instead of caching the images it simply makes them an "attachment" as the user that posted the thread? This would create a cached image of any copy and thus raise the memory amount sensibly.
• Are any future updates planned for this mod or is it final as-is? There is an unpublished modification which retrieves also images from imageshack and many other services, together with preview icons and expanded images. However it is rather complicated to use and maintain. So at the moment it remains as-is.
• Are there options that allow us to determine which images get cached and which don't? None yet.
• Is there a way to clean up the cache over time for images that are in threads that we are not archiving and are no longer relevant? You may look at the FTP time stamp of the files and delete those which are probably out of date.