Hello Darren,

EasySocial does already have Amazon S3 integrations You can enable it under Settings > Remote Storage Refer to the documentation here, http://docs.stackideas.com/administrators/remote_storage/remote_storage

hi mark

yes i know ES has S3 for remote storage. But this still costs the site owner, as although first 2 GB or so is free, thereafter both memory and bandwidth are charged monthly per MB.

the point i am suggesting is if in each user profile setting, there was an option where user given option to :
1. use sites allocation per user ( say 500MB per user - this could also be a chargeable amount )
2. assign your own user source for media files - flickr, dropbox, google drive, amazon s3

if the site is a proactive, and say a film or photography club, then files could be large and extensive.
it also gives the user a point of ownership of their content. facebook is 'free' to use because it pays by ads.
it would be really good not to have to rely on steroid muscle pictures as a means of keeping the site going.
also, if a site fails / ceases, then all user content is not lost.

Hello Darren,

Perhaps the limiting in size could work but not sure about assigning your own source of storage. It would be insane to actually pull files from different sources and mash it up on a single section Not sure if that would even be possible