I added support for uploading PDFs and a few other text formats, including Typst files, SVGs, and CSVs. I wasn’t quite comfortable with adding ZIP though. Since ZIP can contain any file, it’s basically the same as removing the restriction alltogether. One the one hand, just the fact that it’s possible and used would likely increase storage usage by a fair amount. But my main conern is that the forum could be more easily abused to host malware, illegal content, or similar things.[1] I don’t really want the mod team to have to download random ZIPs into some VM sandbox just to check whether they contain a virus or harmful content.
Of course, you can also encode such things as base64 text, but that’s much more indirect and much less likely to cause any harm. ↩︎