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Allow pasting images in comments.
Recently, I posted electrical.codidact.com/comments/thread/11173#comment-27698, which cites two images from Wikipedia, and another from elsewhere.
Although citing versioned MediaWiki URIs from Wikipedia isn't problematic, because they'll never become 404s, I've been forced to cite szapphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/usb-c-pinout-diagram.webp, because I am unable to paste images into comments, which may well become so.
A workaround may exist: to post an image to an external hoster, [1] then embed that image with a CommonMark hyperlink ( [2] it, regardless, wouldn't be convenient, nor significantly more stable.![]()). However, I've yet to ascertain whether that operates either, and
Embedding images in comment threads could take up a lot of space (particularly for the inline view, below posts), but as …
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Optional per community I can imagine communities that would welcome images in comments, and communities that would pre …
11mo ago
Comments are not for content. Actually that's up to each site, but there seems to be consensus to avoid the messy comme …
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Embedding images in comment threads could take up a lot of space (particularly for the inline view, below posts), but as I read the question, the concern is primarily about durability of external resources. What if we had some way to upload an image while writing a comment that would become a link rather than a displayed image? Something like the image upload for posts, but with different rendering?
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