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Allow pasting images in comments.

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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 (![]()). However, I've yet to ascertain whether that operates either, and [2] it, regardless, wouldn't be convenient, nor significantly more stable.

  1. github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/6211#issue-3553892727 ↩︎

  2. comments/thread/11190#comment-27707 ↩︎

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Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB)‭
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3 comment threads

Posting this demonstrated a bug. (10 comments)
Just to confirm, Markdown images don't work in comments (5 comments)
Alternative (not an objection to this feature request) (2 comments)
Posting this demonstrated a bug.
Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB)‭ wrote 4 months ago
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When I posted this, I observed a message that informed me that I was posting images without alternative text captions. That's obviously untrue, because no images have been embedded.

trichoplax‭ wrote 4 months ago
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For visibility and to allow voting, I recommend raising this bug as a separate Meta question.

Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB)‭ wrote 4 months ago · edited 4 months ago
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trichoplax‭, I've yet to be able to reproduce it. I should have filed it when I observed it. Apologies. (Though, is Meta Q&A the place for BRs? I expected that that would be GitHub.)

Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB)‭ wrote 4 months ago
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trichoplax‭, #comment-27720 is outdated now: your comment spurred me to confirm, and I've produced a reproducible example at posts/294873.

trichoplax‭ wrote 4 months ago
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No need to apologise. Raising bugs is voluntary, not an obligation. Thank you for putting in the time to find a reproducible example. I've done some testing and posted an answer under that bug report, narrowing down the specific case that triggers the bug.

trichoplax‭ wrote 4 months ago
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As for where to raise bugs, either GitHub or here on Meta is fine. Bugs raised on Meta will later have a GitHub issue raised.

Personally, I tend to raise bugs (and feature requests) on Meta because this allows the whole community to see them. Not every Meta user will have a technical background or be aware of GitHub and the project source code. Posting on Meta allows everyone to vote, to help with prioritising, and to discuss, helping with narrowing down causes and affected browsers and operating systems where relevant.

Discussion on Meta can also help in cases where there might be disagreement over what the correct behaviour should be.

System‭ wrote 4 months ago
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Thread renamed from "Posting This Demonstrated A Bug" to "Posting this demonstrated a bug." by Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB)‭

Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB)‭ wrote 4 months ago · edited 4 months ago
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Thanks, lots, trichoplax‭. I agree.

#comment-27766

System‭, 1 posting a comment each time I rename the thread might introduce a lot of noise. If a Meta post about removing that exists, I'll be glad to see it.

  1. posts/294917 ↩

trichoplax‭ wrote 4 months ago
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I'm not aware of a Meta post about removing or omitting the renaming thread comment (the feature has only recently been introduced). You could raise a Meta post yourself if you have an alternative to propose, or to request proposals if not.

Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB)‭ wrote 4 months ago
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trichoplax‭, thanks. I've posted posts/294924.