I made a topic in the DevForums, but I’ve encountered this:
and I have questions:
- Why they automatically download local copies of images?
- Why it always start with
upload://and ends with.png? - What is it meant to be used in Discourse?
I am sure there are many but in checking the Discourse settings for a site found
download remote images to local
Convert remote (hotlinked) images to local images by downloading them; This preserves content even if the images are removed from the remote site in future.
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Because downloading images from other web sites is unreliable (they might get deleted) and rude (you’re using their bandwidth).
Unless images are really small (there is a site setting defining small) they get processed into a .png to save space. They start with upload:// because that’s the way to refer to those uploads in markdown.
I don’t understand this question.
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I mean “why is it meant to be used in discourse”
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