Multiple times I haven’t been able to attach a file to the devforums because it’s not a supported file type. I’ve had to link engineers to various debugging files via dropbox because the forums don’t allow those file extensions, for instance. There’s a concern that zip files can have malicious contents in the event someone compromises a devforum member’s account, but they too could just link to a dropbox/etc file and the result would be the same. Unless there are any other issues I’m missing, for convenience’s sake it’d be great if we could upload zip files to the forums.
do we allow .tar?
Doesn’t look like it. When you go to upload a file, it has a list of supported files, and .tar isn’t on there:
What about .rar also because that’s more advanced while we’re at it.
.zip should be the preferred archive format, all archiving tools will support it which isn’t that obvious for .rar. .zip can also be opened on most operating systems without installing any additional tools.
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Also, can we allow .ai or .svg files too? Would help a lot
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Of course it should be preferred for that reason but I just thought .rar in addition because it’s normally a fair bit smaller and I would think a good healthy chunk have WinRar or something.
My wishlist:
pdf: For sharing papers etc
svg: For distributing/editing vector graphics
tiff: For editing raster graphics
There are a lot of useful file types that would have to be manually whitelisted. The benefit of zip is that you can put any kind of file in a zip archive – with relative ease – and it only needs to be whitelisted once.
Wouldn’t that confer the same benefit as removing the file extension restriction in the first place?
And emphasis on the fact that it just restricts the extensions, not the actual file types. This is actually a zip file if you remove the .rbxl: hello_world.zip.rbxl (120 Bytes)
'course, that’s just a silly workaround that shouldn’t be necessary.
Yeah, if Discourse allows it, that would be another option. Though, that would allow uploading executable files directly and change the text, for instance: OnlyTwentyCharactersFirstDayAtPrison.png (10 Bytes). Depending on the browser used, the file extension may be easy to miss, or the user may have desensitized themselves to it.
Uploading as a zip prevents any sort of trickery like that.
Bumping this because I would like to see this happen, I sometimes do business through devforum DMs and it’s tedious that I can’t just pass certain roblox-related files / documentation.
Wishlist for me that I currently have to work around:
- .zip (/.rar / .tar / .tar.gz)
- .lua (Roblox defaults saving of scripts to .lua instead of .rbxm, also makes more sense than .rbxm for scripts)
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This would be nice to have