We just made a small quality of life change to the new lightbox.
At the top of the lightbox is a new icon 
Try it here 
When you click it you will quote the image you are looking at and insert into the composer.
Makes it super easy to discuss a particular favorite picture somebody posts!
Enjoy.
Is it really a good idea to be quoting images? Seems like it would be much better if quoted images were forced to be thumbnails.
We retain the original size, but I hear you, this is what happens when you click magnifying glass twice, maybe we should auto shrink, not sure
It was just the first thought I had since Discourse fairly agressively polices what you can quote to the point of editing something you have already submitted. Thatâs why it occurred to me that keeping in that vein, it would make sense to default quoted images to something like 30%. The user could always of course change it. But personally I find quoting images more obnoxious that quoting whole posts (Which i admit is also obnoxious, just not so much 
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Nice little QoL update, thanks @sam
One quick observation though; the quoted image loses its extension.
If the original image markup is something like this:
the quote it becomes:
It obviously works, there is no problem with it.
However, if ever need to process raw text, do a find & replace, or something similar, omission of the extension may cause a bump, maybe?
Yeah it is certainly not on purpose, I think we can retain the extension.
@lindsey / @chapoi any thoughts about the size of the image quoted. Should we thumbnail it, or leave it in the original size, I can see arguments either way. (for example if you use it on a grid you probably want to call out an image so keeping it full size by default feels more correct)
IIRC our implementation doesnât respect the dimensions or the scale, just the ratio, when building the masonry.
I also can see it either wayâŠ
I believe weâre just talking about the defaults though, right? If we keep original size, someone can zoom out in the composer; if we thumbnail, someone can zoom in in the composer.
@chapoi what do you think?
Are there any plans to hide the button for users who are not logged in and hence cannot quote?
great catch @moin, will fix.
Yeah sorry ⊠this is kind of what I meant here:
For example when quoting one of the robots, kind of makes sense to quote it in big.
Also when quoting further up in the topic calling out big makes sense.
This fixes both with an added bonus that if you highlight an image as part of a quote we will also maintain the extension.
how about a thumbnail that when tapped / clicked is linked to the original picture in the original post?
just a thoughtâŠ. throwing it out there
I think @one1 is 100% correct, the giant quotes images annoy me too; the use case of the quote is to refer to it, not show it again.
While this is true:
I believe that might be the lesser used form.
So I would optimise for what I believe is the most regular usecase: quoting in the same topic.
Scale the quoted image down to our smallest size
There is always the arrow button to easily go view it in its original context and size:
Or you can just click on the âthumbnailâ image and see the full size again in the lightbox.
Exactly my thoughts. In so many ways Discourse is already designed to make the quoted image as a thumbnail work really well.
And as has been mentioned, the post writer can always just change the size.
