2. Ability to upload video or other multi-media to posts.
Realistically the only way any additional features like this are going to be supported is if they are available as SMF add-ons. The alternative, customizing the SMF
software, would be too expensive, as would be self-hosting videos.
However, there is an "Auto Media Embedder" add-on for SMF 2.x that would go a long ways towards this, and potentially add to user engagement. What this add-on does is automatically convert URLs you post pointing to multi-media content into an inline (
aka embedded)
part of your post. It supports dozens of source web sites, including YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Imgur, Flikr and
Google Drive.
So, to include your video/etc you'd upload it to one of the supported sites (
Google Drive is an interesting option, since it doesn't require a social media post) then just include the URL in your post, and the video would display/play directly in your post. Video does seem to be increasingly used for
ancient coins - some
auction sites now including video as well as photos.
What's cool about this is that it'd of course also
work for existing content, so if you find an interesting video somewhere you could just post the URL and it'd show up in the post rather than users having to click-through to an external site. I wonder how much ancient coin content is on TikTok ?
Ben