How enable file uploads?

[jamestho]

Hi,

How do i enable file uploads on obsidian irc, please?

[ValwareIRC]

Hey there, thanks for the great question. So far, the only real way for file uploads to work is by using a very WIP setup which, at the moment, requires installing UnrealIRCd+mods and the ObsidianIRC backend all wired up together.

However I don't super recommend using those right now, unless you are testing, as it's quite buggy and still very early in development stages. The idea is here is that (eventually) ObsidianIRC will be able to be a fully-hosted package which itself includes the modded UnrealIRCd and the backend I mentioned before, which will be much easier for people (who wish to host a public chat limited to their own server which provides ObsidianIRC) to install.

Of course those who want to use it as a personal client will still be able to do so, and connecting to one of these servers will enable uploading photos to the actual server you're visiting, rather than some custom one. This is because we want it all "safe" rendering. By safe I mean that we can render images from the server-provided filehost with less worry, since that does not let anyone get IP-grabbed, only the server admins can see your IP, which was already the case when you chose to connect to the server, so the trust is implied.

Currently no plans to implement ability for user-specified filehosts. I'll leave this issue open as others may be interested to know this.