# Quick image resizing and markdown image dimensions

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-image-resizing-and-markdown-image-dimensions/66812
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [July 25, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-image-resizing-and-markdown-image-dimensions/66812 "2017-07-25T21:29:52Z")
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### Author: ![Tom\_Newsom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tom_newsom/32/115981_2.png) [@Tom\_Newsom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tom_Newsom)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2017, 10:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-image-resizing-and-markdown-image-dimensions/66812/23 "2017-08-03T10:28:39Z")

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I know the technical reasons so I’m not expecting an easy solution, but I do find it sad that in such forward-looking software as Discourse, computerese like this is visible to the user at all.

`![fat-city-apple-ii|690x473](//cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/meta/original/3X/e/7/e76d2a89947069f0ce624d5989fa20c47a13d383.png)`

vs.

`![fat-city-apple-ii|690x473](//cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/meta/original/3X/e/7/7v26IM9P2kmVepd7ZxuXyQ3.png)`

is neither here nor there, really.

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