The discussion revolves around the appearance of links to topics containing multiple uploaded images in Discourse. Richie finds the current display of such links to be awful, suggesting two possible solutions: skipping or ignoring uploaded images for a cleaner preview, or thumbnailing images for a more meaningful display. codinghorror tests the issue but can’t reproduce it, while Canapin agrees that the current display is not ideal. Canapin also suggests replacing images with a shorter and more readable format, such as [image]. JammyDodger likes the idea of using tiny thumbnails, but notes that users often don’t give their images user-friendly names. Canapin agrees that most users don’t bother with descriptive image names, making it difficult to target ‘nonsense’ image names. codinghorror clarifies that the issue is with linking to a post from a different topic, and Richie confirms this.
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:
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.
It would be good if there was a way to target ‘nonsense’ image names from ‘intended’, as I find it quite a useful trick.