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[JammyDodger]

Is it the same as this issue?

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

There doesn’t seem to be a solution yet, but it may be worth a read?