I noticed that a large photo is copied to the server which makes me wonder. This practice misses the point of storing the image on flickr. Can it be possible to display a flickr image without storing it locally?

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aaron commented

we could add support for this, although you then lose support of image styles. maybe it could be configurable to the admin, w/ a warning?

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joebest commented

I'm not much of a tech person. I'm building a multisite for an organization with ten affiliate sites. They would like all photos stored in one flicker pro account in order to 1) consolidate photo storage and 2) avoid or at least minimize localhost server storage. Then each affiliate would like to display their photos via media gallery. Can that be done even if image styles support is lost?

Thanks,
Jose

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steinmb commented
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+1 if it's doable. Drupal can do this, example is https://drupal.org/project/remote_stream_wrapper that does just this.

Have not looked at this module code at all (yet) but wanted to bump the issue and see if anyone else see this as an issue. If local storage could be avoided, I'm all for it. Grabbing images from remote API and store it locally also create other issues then storage blow up, keeping the image meta data in sync and so on. We store the file/id. What happen if (example) the image title change etc. Have non answers, just thinking out loud and dusting off old issue/feature req.

best reg.
Steinmb

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steinmb commented
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