Pictures are embedded as a picture, not as a hyperlink for downloading

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Ok so let me restate to be sure I understand your specific requirements:

  1. You must upload the image HERE, to Discourse, not somewhere else
  2. You must have the image appear as a link, not as an image

Here’s how:

  • I pressed the upload image button on the editor toolbar

  • I get ![hardrock|600x142](upload://hQp9APpwvC0hk45t7gEaFLf7j9o.jpeg) in the post

  • right click that image (in the preview, on the right hand side), and select “copy link” or “copy image address”

  • delete the ! and replace that text and URL in the link, like so

    ![hardrock|600x142](upload://hQp9APpwvC0hk45t7gEaFLf7j9o.jpeg)

    becomes

    [link to image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/d/7d117d4b713cc3bc7f98f5cb9801df93acd484aa.jpeg)

Here’s what it looks like in the post:

hardrock
hardrock600×142 22.2 KB

and

link to image

To be honest Discourse isn’t really designed as a general purpose image linking host, so this is an unusual thing to do from our perspective. You are better off using a third party image host like imgur.com and linking the image that way:

https://i.imgur.com/a4ggkyk.png

Then all you need to know, is to put the < and > around the link so it doesn’t embed.