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How to add image via url?
(media.kbin.social)
Does the option to add an image via URL not work? I have tried in both Brave and Firefox desktop browsers and the Brave mobile app - clicking the "From URL" or "Upload File" doesn't appear to do anything.
The only thing that does anything from this menu is clicking the filepath to upload a file from local.
Am I missing something?
Another possibility I was thinking about last night is when federated servers obtain local copies of comments that reference images, if the server enables the option to do so, also replicating the image and causing users viewing the comment via that server to use that instance's copy of the image.
That does mean that keeping the original comment text and maybe signature on the image around might be necessary if pubkey signing of comments or something comes into play later -- so it's a design decision that might have some long-running effects.
Given that serving images might be a significant chunk of the bandwidth that kbin instances use, it has implications for where costs lie -- on the instance where the community lives, or on the instance that has the users -- so it might be worth careful consideration.