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title: 'Custom images/videos on the Wall, Wall fixes 2 - Mon 8th September, 2020'
tags: [C+, Wall, filters, programmingjournal, '2020', sendingflow, customimgvid]

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# Custom images/videos on the Wall, Wall fixes 2 - Mon 8th September, 2020

I had an interesting day discussing the plan for getting custom images and videos onto feed items on the Wall, including an hour meeting with the CTO and a team meeting. 

It is clear that we need to deliver these features in some form as soon as possible. My prefered option is to add them on the C+ rebuild. The problem is that there is all the other things (filters, push notifications, security, etc) that would need to be done as well before a release.

The next option was building out the web sending flow. This would have the advantage as being properly in React, but it would mean more work in building out IA and nominations, neither of which currently have endpoints, amongst other things, which introduces further risk we won't hit that deadline.

The third option (and what looks likely we will have to settle for) is to introduce a stop-gap measure with the old (Vue based) sending flow: add a way to add custom images and videos to the current Vue sending flow, adjust the Web React Wall to display them, and add a simple as possible way to show them in the current legacy C+ Android and iOS apps. This, in theory, would then take the pressure off us, allowing us to time to properly deliver the rebuilt C+ React Native app and others.

Even with this third, "simple" option, a lot still needs to be discussed and nailed down.

I also did some tweaks to the weekly filters digest email template, and worked on minor Web wall fixes, as we are intending to turn it on for all clients soon and entirely retire the old Wall.

###### tags: `programmingjournal` `2020` `C+` `Wall` `filters` `sendingflow` `customimgvid` 