Ask HN: How do you handle photo uploads in a public site?

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I'm building a public facing service that will allow people to upload a small number of photos that are visible to a limited number of people. I am aware of a number of ways this can be abused (porn or worse) and I am looking for a solution that does not require human moderation.

How have you handled allowing people to upload photos?

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The old school method is phpBB [1]. It has fine grained controls about who/what can upload, who/what can see and who has real time posting privs vs. requires moderated approval. It is the most versatile and battle hardened solution I have ever seen. If using this, steer clear of the addons. The built in controls while not super obvious at first, are very powerful.

[1] - https://www.phpbb.com/

Is there a good description of those built in controls? I skimmed around and https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3.3/ug/adminguide/atta... https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3.3/ug/moderatorguide/ seemed like plausible places but I'm not sure those cover the features you refer to. Thanks for the pointer in any case!

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