Metamirror for XF2 (rehosting of linked files, documents as attachments) (1 Viewer)

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The popular addon metamirror is unfortunately not set to be upgraded to XF2 anytime soon:

Unmaintained - MetaMirror ​

This is currently a ONE-WAY conversion of image links from external to local, there is no undo. Make sure you understand this before you install this add-on The ability for users to externally link images is very useful, but can lead to problems...

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What it does is:

1. Fetch linked files (images, documents, etc) and add those as attachments to posts.
2. Replace dead links with text.
3. Throttling in order not to overload the server with thousands of processes.

It would be very nice to see a quality coded addon with similar functionality in the XF resources section for XF2.

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