Broken images with 'embed truncate' disabled

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@f1r4s and @craigconstantine this is caused by the bug best described at

Markdown rendering issue with image surrounded with HTML

Related to Thumbnail generation & markdown rendering issue When discourse downloads and replaces an image HTML with its markdown syntax – in our context, this results as: [...]<a href="<link_here>" target="_blank"></a>[...] Discourse is unable to render the image

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[image]

To fix the issue, you need at least an empty line above: [...]<a href="<link_here>" target="_blank"> </a>[...…

The workaround we have is documented at

Fix broken images for posts created by the WP Discourse and RSS plugins

There is a case where images published to Discourse through the WP Discourse and RSS plugins can be broken. This can happen when the full post content is published to Discourse with the WP Discourse plugin and the WordPress Classic editor is used for publishing the post. It can also happen with posts pulled to Discourse with the RSS Polling polling when the Truncate the embedded posts Embedding setting is not enabled. The problem happens when Discourse attempts to download images that have been…

For example @f1r4s, adding https://reconshell.com/wp-content/uploads/ to the site setting disabled image download domains will leave the post as: