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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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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)
Alternative (not an objection to this feature request)
trichoplax‭ wrote 4 months ago

Even if images were available in comments, I would also recommend adding those explanatory images to the question so future readers can avoid the confusion that the commenter mentioned.

This isn't an objection to allowing images in comments. I would say the same about written explanations in comments - it's generally better to improve the explanation in the post and mention in a comment that this has been done, so that understanding the post does not depend on reading the comments.

trichoplax‭, yes; thanks. I had forgotten to, because it required a little rework of the question. Remediated in posts/294839/history#2.