I guess arctic supports uploading media to other places, like catbox.moe, how to choose it as the destination for my uploads, when creating a post?
Also is there a easy way to extract the media (video or image) location from my links. When I upload a video to pixelfed, I usually end up with the link to the post not directly to the video. And I heated from others, that they can’t see the video in their clients directly, but have to open the link, and watch in on pixelfed. It would be handy, if Arctic would detect such links, when creating the post, and asks be if I rather like to use the (MP4,…) source in my post. While arctic can handle such links better then most other clients, and watching videos work even if the link isn’t directly pointing to the video, I think it would be nice for others to have such an option.
For uploading to catbox.moe, you’ll need to go to (Settings -> General -> Upload Destination) from there you can choose Lemmy, Catbox, or Ask each Time. This defaults to Lemmy.
As for extracting the media url when posting a link, I’ll need to look into this a bit more. It’s a great idea, however some media links include an authentication token that expires after a predefined amount of time. This would in turn result in broken links after the time is up. I’ll see if I can’t work out a way to parse these links and see which ones are safe to directly embed. It’s definitely annoying to post links that are not easily viewable from other clients, I’ll see what I can work out on this front.
Thx 🙏
But now when I try to upload an video from my files, in the create a post form, the app crashes. I have my user has to catbox set, and catbox is the default upload location.
Oof, I must have broke something in an update without noticing. I’ll see if I can’t patch this tonight and release an update. Thanks for letting me know!
That’s some serious dedication 🌝
This was a super simple fix, I’m going to see about patching a few other issues, and then I’ll roll out an update.