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by gh123man 1595 days ago
I'd love to learn how you are handling media/photo storage from both a technical and practical perspective. Some questions that come to mind: are you using a dedicated service or did you build it yourself? Are you using a CDN? How do you plan to deal with abusive content and the liability that comes with storing photos?

I am also working on an app where hosting photos would be a nice feature - but the risk/undertaking without proper and potentially expensive infrastructure is daunting.

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Hey cool!

Media is encoded in base 64, encrypted in transit with SSL/TLS then encrypted at rest on our hosted servers. We're not using a CDN just a simple relational DB (but imagine at some point we will need to change that). For abusive content and data liabilities we currently comply with the abusive content standards set in place by the app store(s) and GDPR/equivalents.