Hi, We have a hosted instance of Discourse and are including images from our own website. This worked fine until today, when the user “system” started to replace the URLs with links to downloaded versions. I tried turning this off globally but to no avail. Also tried to configure our domain as an e…

On my forum (also hosted by Discourse, updated about 2 hours ago) the disabled image download domains site setting still works as expected. Other images are downloaded, but those configured there are not. I wonder what changed on your forum that results in this process starting today. Are there set…

This is what I have configured: [image] The Image that gets downloaded and replaced is at https://zensical.org/assets/proposals/zap005_pruning.png Just for completeness: according to the generator tag in the HTML, we are on: Discourse 2026.4.0-latest - version 27a843fa0f7276cc5ef5e89850812f10f6…

I tested this exact configuration locally and it worked, that is, the image from zensical.org does not get downloaded. I suspect what happened in your instance is that the image with the same URL was already downloaded locally before the site setting change, and the app matches the upload based on i…

Thanks, I have created a test post and will wait a bit to see if system comes and edits it. In the meantime, is there a way to purge those images so they do not get inserted again? I asked Claude and it said I could remove the image links and a background job would tidy up after a grace period. Sou…

Yeah, removing the links to the assets is the way to go. The wait period is 48 hours by default, based on clean_orphan_uploads_grace_period_hours.

I think I’ll duplicate the images on our website, then edit the link so that the live document stays intact. Later on, when everything’s settled, I can remove the original images.

Le immagini remote vengono sempre scaricate

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pmusaraj (Penar Musaraj) 16 Aprile 2026, 9:59pm 6

Sì, rimuovere i link alle risorse è la strada da seguire. Il periodo di attesa è di 48 ore per impostazione predefinita, basato su clean_orphan_uploads_grace_period_hours.

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