cloud storage integration revisited

Hello CB, just wanted to bring this up again. This is a great idea/facility:

www.joomlapolis.com/forum/153-professional-member-support/229600-groupjive-images-stored-in-amazon-s3-is-it-possible#263644

Being able to specifify a path to e.g. amazon S3 would be super useful. I would use it for avatar uploading, canvass uploading for sure. At the moment I allow avatar upload, but disallowed it for canvass, instead having 5 basic custom made canvass's to select from, as all that uploading will mean I would have to expand my server storage in no time. But their logo/emblem is their logo/emblem so can't get around that.

My GJ groups don't hang around long and the data/info is deleted when a group is, so no particular worry there for my use case. Apart from fields, I guess CB Activity is the other memory/storage big user, but that can't be harnessed I imagine. So if GJ, avatar, canvass were stored in and pulled from e.g. amazon S3 our standard server capacity could be left to deal with the rest. Sounds like a scenario where all my troubles just flew out the window!

With such a facility a Joomla site with CB could be much more lean, these storage pricing plans can be pay as you use, websites would be faster, my clients could be allowed to upload instead of linking, we could charge for extra storage space options with CBSubs etc etc, the possibilities are endless!

What do you think?any ideas, feedback or intentions.

We already have plans for support for external storage. That won't happen though until we've written our API library for storage management so a centralized API can be used by any plugin to store without each needing their own implementations. No idea when that's happening though as it's rather low on the priority list at this time.

Good to hear it's still officially on the cards.

Suppose I was delicately hinting at and giving reasons why it should get more attention/get increased in priority. I mean pretty much all components and plugins work, and work very well, this is new.

Final point is that with this new inclusion, CB for me anyway, moves to a whole new level.

Waiting in anticipation for this awesome amazing feature.

Kind regards

The reason it's low on the priority is I can confidently bet only about 1%, if that, of our user base would even use external storage let alone afford it. I can't justify taking time away from something like CB Gallery, CB Activity, CB 2.1 with language override GUI, and new projects that will benefit a significantly larger amount of people for something that'd fill a niche user base.

With that said though it will be implement, but I just don't know when. We don't have the luxury of a large team of 10+ like some other extensions or a significant amount of contributors (CB is open source..) so it falls on 3 peoples shoulders to make all of this happen, which means we've to prioritize more popularly requested feature/plugins due to time constraints.

Yes, massive respect to you guys. Wish I could contribute, but my knowledge is basic enough and budget is shoestring.

Thanks for everything so far looking forward to future developments.