>>66107You used to be able to upload files directly up to Kemono. For example; you'd buy an art pack from Gumroad. And then you could upload the zipfile with the art, and the mods would then check your upload and if it was legit it would be listed.
So if an artist made a post featuring a picture and its alts, then instead of using the importer to get those pictures onto Kemono, you'd instead just upload a zip with them instead.
The problem came when bad actors begun to try and ruin the site by uploading many different large .zips of random pictures & shit in order to slow down the site to a crawl and make it unstable. Ruining the user experience.
It lead to the admin disabling the upload feature. The button is still there whenever you check any of the artist pages, but it only leads to a 404.