Linking to a topic containing uploaded images looks awful

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

Hi everyone,

When quoting / linking to a topic which contains a bunch of uploaded images I’ll be blunt here and say, it looks awful

(sorry, you know I love you guys!)

eg:

I’m not sure what the solution is but two suggestions spring to mind.

Suggestion one: A better user experience would be to either skip/ignore uploaded images completely, thereby providing a cleaner “preview”.

Suggestion two: Thumbnail the images so something more meaningful is displayed in the preview.

Open to more suggestions of course

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

OK let’s try this. Here are some images.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

I pressed the “full quote” button and got the above. I can’t repro @Richie?

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

test:

Linking to a topic containing uploaded images looks awful

Hi everyone, When quoting / linking to a topic which contains a bunch of uploaded images I’ll be blunt here and say, it looks awful (sorry, you know I love you guys!) eg: [Screen Shot 2021-08-22 at 21.34.25] I’m not sure what the solution is but two suggestions spring to mind. Suggestion one: A better user experience would be to either skip/ignore uploaded images completely, thereby providing a cleaner “preview”. Suggestion two: Thumbnail the images so something more mean…

Do you think the images mentioned in the excerpt should be completely removed (would be a bit confusing in my example, with an “eg:” followed by… Nothing), like the excerpt shown outside Discourse? Here an example on Discord:

Or replaced by something shorter and more readable like [image]?

Do you think the behavior should be different in an excerpt that contains a lot of images (like your example), and one that doesn’t (like my example)?

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But I like the idea of having tiny, inline thumbnails embedded in the excerpt with linking a topic on Discourse though., and like you, I don’t really like previews of messages with a bunch of [unclear_image_link] [unclear_image_link] [unclear_image_link] [unclear_image_link]
[unclear_image_link] in the preview.

[JammyDodger]

@Canapin

Or replaced by something shorter and more readable like [image]?

I name mine so they look okay/are useable in the Search and onebox links:

Replied post doesnt display as such

Is it when you reply to the post directly above? That normally hides the little avatar ‘in-reply-to’ in the top right corner. You can change that by using the suppress reply directly above setting: [suppress reply directly above] There are a couple more ‘suppress reply’ settings too: [suppress reply]

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

A good habit I guess!
Most people don’t bother and just upload a bunch of pictures with non-user-friendly file names of their vacation through their smartphone though
They won’t even know how to change the display text.

[JammyDodger]

This is very true. It would be good if there was a way to target ‘nonsense’ image names from ‘intended’, as I find it quite a useful trick.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Oh wait, he’s referring to a link to the post from a different topic? My bad, I misread.

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

Sorry Jeff @codinghorror I should have been clearer. Yes, exactly that