I found one direct reference to this topic, but it was closed so I couldn’t piggyback off of it. I have some cases where the URL of an image is of minor significance, but certainly not of paramount importance. Overall, I prefer to have the nicety of locally cached images, but there’s a few cases where I’d like to escape that context especially in code blocks of specific posts.
https://meta.discourse.org/t/remote-image-download-shouldnt-touch-code-sections/13823
Might there be a way to do it on a by-post or by-topic basis? How about a tag that or html component that tells that feature to ignore the post? This is certainly not a high priority thing and I wouldn’t spend a lot of cycles on it, I just thought I’d bring it up again to see if there may have been any architectural changes that makes this an easier fix.
The best workaround I’ve found is just to screenshot the text in it’s original form, but that of course doesn’t allow for easy copying from the code blocks.