Quite a while ago. I instituted a policy that disallowed using the vB's attachment mechanisms to post pictures or documents within a post. The primary reasons for this was, the perceived loss of those Photos and/or documents. They only existed in the context of the post/thread they were in. If the post or thread were deleted then the picture or document was also lost. Other reasons were:
Fear of the Photo Gallery not being used. A feature that used to be a major attraction to visit our site.
Same thing for documents and the download library.
Duplication of pictures and documents. It was easy to see our users uploading the same picture many times for use in different threads.
Since that time, the issue of files getting lost is not a real problem. The images and files are there and can be found. An example, of this is found in a add on that I found. I have put a Link to it under the Admin Menu. That add on could really be enhanced if wanted to. Also if you try to upload an attachment, you will be taken to the new "asset Manager" where all you attachments are shown and you just reuse then when appropriate.(That feature can Be turned of if desired.)
Another reason is that people seem to hate uploading to our gallery so much that many have switched to using galleries outside our site. So our gallery is no longer growing as it used to.
Anyway I have enable picture and file attachments the staff so we can play and decide if we really want to open this up.
so here is my examples.
Fear of the Photo Gallery not being used. A feature that used to be a major attraction to visit our site.
Same thing for documents and the download library.
Duplication of pictures and documents. It was easy to see our users uploading the same picture many times for use in different threads.
Since that time, the issue of files getting lost is not a real problem. The images and files are there and can be found. An example, of this is found in a add on that I found. I have put a Link to it under the Admin Menu. That add on could really be enhanced if wanted to. Also if you try to upload an attachment, you will be taken to the new "asset Manager" where all you attachments are shown and you just reuse then when appropriate.(That feature can Be turned of if desired.)
Another reason is that people seem to hate uploading to our gallery so much that many have switched to using galleries outside our site. So our gallery is no longer growing as it used to.
Anyway I have enable picture and file attachments the staff so we can play and decide if we really want to open this up.
so here is my examples.