Backend support for activity posts with multiple media attachments

Goal

Support activity posts with multiple images to enable content creators to create content they expect to create on social media.

What needs to be done

Set up backend to support a new activity post type that contains multiple images. Some assumptions we can make:

A post can have multiple images (1-4).
All upvotes / engagements on images within the post are attributed to the post -- in other words, the activity post has one set of engagements; we do not store engagements separately for each image within the post.

Activity:

->custom_type = 'batch';
->custom_data = [
  [
     // image one
     'thumbnail_src' => < source to thumbnail 1>
  ],
  [
    // image two
    'thumbnail_src' => < source to thumbnail 2>
  ]
]

Album:

// TODO:

QA

UX/Design

Front end design of the multi-image posts is still in progress. Michael and/or Ryan can walk through in-progress designs if necessary.

Personas

Core Minds creators

Experiments

No experiment

Acceptance Criteria

The backend supports a new activity post with multiple images
Agreement on data structure
Proof of concept of working

Definition of Ready Checklist

Edited Aug 31, 2022 by Mark Harding