I use TheLounge as a client. It's web based and can show previews of images and videos. So my friends and I can upload images and videos to the server and watch them in the channel.

Convos also does this.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

where are some good servers?

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

I'd really like to suggest servers or networks but I host my own private server with TheLounge for my friends. We ran away from Undernet around 2010 and just stayed on our own server since.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Quakenet is where I sit

[–] littleomid@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How did you get image preview to work?

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

In TheLounge? AFAIK it's on by default. However prefetching is also disabled by default and that may cause some previews not to work.

Look for the prefetch setting in /etc/thelounge/config.js and set it to true.

So to me and the people using TheLounge on my server it looks like this

If working correctly, you can pretty much just paste URLs or images into a channel and it will display them. My only problem so far has been with YouTube, and I think it's because YouTube is blocking my host. But to go around this, I have an eggdrop to fetch the title and the thumbnails of YouTube videos to display them when an address is pasted.