Let's talk about pictures, quoting pictures in Discourse

We just made a small quality of life change to the new lightbox.

At the top of the lightbox is a new icon :speech_balloon:

Try it here :up_arrow:

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.

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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. That’s 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 :grin:)