[feature] placeholder for overlarge attachments

[mirabilos]

Is your feature request related to a problem ?

I just read a post where I thought they had forgotten to attach a picture.

Turns out they attached a large video, and I didn’t know.

Describe the solution you'd like.

Put in placeholders for overlong content from external, ideally with a hyperlink to the original file on their homeserver.

Perhaps even do so for overlong posts, truncate them just before the local limit then put in a link.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

I could raise my limit, but storage space is expensive and I’d like for it to last as long as possible before increasing it.

Additional context.

No response

[tsmethurst]

I have a branch open for this :) #810

Still testing it out though.

[mirabilos]

Ah okay, so that’s also for too large attachments witrh known types? Thanks!

[tsmethurst]

Ah okay, so that’s also for too large attachments witrh known types?

Not yet, but I'll try and fold that in when I start working on that branch again (some other stuff took prio first but I will come back to it)

[firescry]

I've just come across this feature proposal and I noticed that in part it's similar to solution discussed in #2175 - putting a placeholder for attachments which were not fetched. I'm cross linking them for better traceability :)