Likely but still pretty new at many thubgs with discourse. Need to read up and learn more. Would something like that fix uploaded images in posts? It also seemed to affect emojis in polder posts as well. They honestly should have talked to me about it as they rebranded the site before with the same issue arising. Imho there was no need or real benefit to change from ai to com as the site has ran for 3+ years on the .ai
Plus any user whom installed the app had become broken and the same with others using the original url yo acs the site.