# Enhancing appeal with image previews

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/enhancing-appeal-with-image-previews/345130>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [January 1, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enhancing-appeal-with-image-previews/345130 "2025-01-01T13:35:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![lindsey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lindsey/32/318210_2.png) [@lindsey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lindsey)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 10:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enhancing-appeal-with-image-previews/345130/13 "2025-01-02T22:54:51Z")

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> [@Canapin](#):
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> Will it be a standalone library that can be integrated into other projects than Discourse?

No, we aren’t building this as a standalone library. We are utilizing ProseMirror 's library to build the composer specifically for Discourse to support our unique features and formatting.

> [@Seel](#):
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> Hope wysiwyg will live alongside current approach of having two separate windows for markdown and preview. I really dislike inability to see the actual markdown and syntax of a complex post.  
> Not-optional wysiwyg can be detrimental to users who are fluent in markdown and sites that allow bbcode and html in posts.

For now, we are building this editor as a new “mode” of the existing composer. Both modes will support Markdown — the new one just automatically renders it. The current editor will remain available for the time being, and we’ll figure out any long term changes we want to make there based on feedback from users like yourself.

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