# Again with the image issues. Has something changed?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-image-issues-has-something-changed/987130
**Category:** Site Feedback
**Created:** [July 16, 2023, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-image-issues-has-something-changed/987130 "2023-07-16T23:40:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2023, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-image-issues-has-something-changed/987130/1 "2023-07-16T23:40:03Z")
After a struggle, mostly due to the fact that I never imagined it could be so easy, I learned how to add images to a post. It seemed that all I had to do was paste the link from the image hosting site into my post, and it would work. And it did work, for awhile.
Just now, though, I tried to post an image, and now it throws an error message saying that I can’t embed a media object. What’s going on? Aren’t we allowed to post images anymore?
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### Author:  [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2023, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-image-issues-has-something-changed/987130/2 "2023-07-16T23:45:22Z")
Image URL:
[ ](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/4/48/Chewbacca_TLJ.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/500?cb=20221108044917)
Image URL with everything after “.png” removed:
[ ](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/4/48/Chewbacca_TLJ.png)
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### Author:  [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2023, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-image-issues-has-something-changed/987130/3 "2023-07-17T00:58:58Z")
Wow, so every image shows up as Chewbacca?
That _does_ sound like an issue we should address.
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2023, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-image-issues-has-something-changed/987130/4 "2023-07-17T01:55:36Z")
> [@Moriarty](#):
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> Wow, so every image shows up as Chewbacca?
Only if you use the .rrrawrrrrowr extension.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2023, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-image-issues-has-something-changed/987130/5 "2023-07-17T02:41:42Z")
Can you give us the URL of the image that won’t post; that is, break the link if need be.
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### Author:  [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2023, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-image-issues-has-something-changed/987130/6 "2023-07-17T04:17:24Z")
Moved to Site Feedback (from ATMB).
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### Author:  [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2023, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-image-issues-has-something-changed/987130/7 "2023-07-17T04:25:43Z")
You are allowed to post images, as long as they are hosted elsewhere. As noted, just paste the link from the image hosting site.
This is probably a variant of the same bug that is being discussed here.
> [@Have links to YouTube been disabled?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958):
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> I just tried posting a couple of YouTube links in and got the message An error occurred: Sorry, you can’t embed media items in a post. What’s going on?
We don’t allow users to upload their own videos and images to our server (we’re not a hosting site). A few months ago, the Discourse folks made some sort of software change, and now when Discourse generates its preview for a link, it gets confused and thinks that the link preview is somehow you trying to upload an image, even though you aren’t.
The Discourse folks have been made aware of the bug, but so far there has been no fix for it.
There are some workarounds for youtube videos in the other thread.
Since the other thread is focused on youtube videos, please post video issues and workarounds in that thread so that we do not have duplicate thread topics, even though this is probably the same bug. Use this thread to test images and post workarounds.
As was already suggested, please post the link that you are having issues with. You can break the link by adding a space between the http at the beginning of the link and the rest of the link. If all else fails, send me a PM or an email with the link.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2023, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-image-issues-has-something-changed/987130/8 "2023-07-17T12:36:39Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#):
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> As was already suggested, please post the link that you are having issues with.
Be advised that the Discourse software has a history of not liking links which use underscores.
> **[Links broken with (at least) two underscores in URL](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-broken-with-at-least-two-underscores-in-url/72976)**
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> i don’t know if this is an issue regarding Discourse exactly or if it’s coming from twitter API but I wanted to share this little bug, when we share a tweet from a account that has a underscore in its username, the link is broken on Discourse,...
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### Author:  [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-image-issues-has-something-changed/987130/9 "2023-07-17T17:23:51Z")
Here’s the broken link, which is a Flickr image.
(In quotes to prevent parsing)
“[https://flic.kr](https://flic.kr) /p/2oPVxE6”
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2023, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-image-issues-has-something-changed/987130/10 "2023-07-17T17:31:35Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#):
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> [https://flic.kr](https://flic.kr) /p/2oPVxE6
[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/78538399@N00/53050864181/)
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2023, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-image-issues-has-something-changed/987130/11 "2023-07-17T17:31:57Z")
Is that the one? Worked fine for me with your link unbroken.
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2023, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-image-issues-has-something-changed/987130/12 "2023-07-17T17:33:57Z")
> [@Moriarty](#):
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> Wow, so every image shows up as Chewbacca?
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> That _does_ sound like an issue we should address.
That’s a feature!
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### Author:  [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-image-issues-has-something-changed/987130/13 "2023-07-17T17:47:04Z")
Should make the SDMB photo competition a more level playing field. 😀