Dealing with images/videos in shared 'forum'

[KevLoui]

Hi All,

Fantastic workshop today, everyone! As always! I currently have a thread open with an existing conundrum and would really appreciate some help! But after the workshop, I’ve come up with another.

Using an example from my existing thread:

@KevLoui

public type Quest = {
    questName: Text;
    questGiver: Text;
    questReward: Text;
    questStatus: Text;
    questAcceptors: [Guild];
    questComplete: Bool;
};

I have a Quest here that has a questStatus characteristic. But what if questStatus could also be an image, video, text or collection of all? I have used the Text type temporarily as a placeholder, and I heard DHT mentioned by @enzo today. Would that be how to use them all? If so, how? Also, is it necessary that Quest has its own type? Could Quest somehow be a characteristic of a Guild that still contains all of its information?

[cryptoschindler]

an easy way would be to host them somewhere else and just save the url which javascript then embeds. i could imagine that you‘d be able to somehow encode an image or video to binary in a way that js understands it and then load it?

[KevLoui]

That sounds like a good solution, and probably the way I’d end up doing it, but I wondered if there was a way you could do it internally? Maybe to reduce the amount of outside dependencies? I understand if that isn’t ideal though.

[cryptoschindler]

what do you mean by „internally“?

[KevLoui]

I was thinking that it would be hosted somewhere, and that called in with Motoko, then use javascript to embed the Motoko call? I may be interpreting this very wrong, and this method is probably not worth it.

[paulyoung]

@KevLoui

I have a Quest here that has a questStatus characteristic. But what if questStatus could also be an image, video, text or collection of all?

Use a variant:

type QuestStatus =
  { #collection : [QuestStatus]
  ; #image : Url
  ; #text : Text
  ; #video : Url
  }:

type Quest
  { ...
  ; status : QuestStatus
  ; ...
  };

[KevLoui]

This looks like exactly what I’m looking for! I’ll use it and let you know how it goes! Thank you!

[emmawatson]

To handle images or videos efficiently in shared forums, you can also consider compressing images to maintain quality while saving storage space. Tools like Image compressor are useful for this. For videos, hosting externally and linking is a reliable approach if internal hosting isn’t feasible