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[FIXED] External links embedded in images no longer load
Hamish Jan 3, 2020
So I just noticed that when I click on a posted image containing an external link embedded inside the image tag it no longer loads and instead just brings up the image itself inside a gallery. This is detrimental for posting screenshots on the forums as it means we can no longer link to pages on external image hosting websites, which often have higher quality versions than the forum thumbnails among other benefits.

Was this removed deliberately, or was it an inadvertent change?

Last edited by Liam Dawe on 3 January 2020 at 11:12 pm UTC
Liam Dawe Jan 3, 2020
Examples help.

I don't understand what you're asking. If you link to an image, it's a link. If you use an image tag, it's going to show an image. That hasn't changed.

Last edited by Liam Dawe on 3 January 2020 at 1:56 pm UTC
Hamish Jan 3, 2020
So after a little more investigation it looks like I can get the desired behaviour using the following BBCode:
[url=https://postimg.cc/5HF9qwtP]![](https://i.postimg.cc/5HF9qwtP/Quake-4-Dead-Strogg.png)[/url]

But all the old screenshots I have posted are now formatted like this:
[https://i.postimg.cc/5HF9qwtP/Quake-4-Dead-Strogg.png](http://postimg.cc/5HF9qwtP)

Not sure how that changed, but I can go back and edit them for the desired behaviour.

For reference, here is how it is supposed to work, with clicking on the image taking me to an external link to the original image host:
[url=https://postimg.cc/5HF9qwtP]
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[/url]

Last edited by Hamish on 3 January 2020 at 5:36 pm UTC
Liam Dawe Jan 3, 2020
It's been fixed.

We're moving over to Markdown because BBCode is just terrible, part of this is that all original links were moved over to Markdown but it didn't take into account images as links, it now does and it should work as normal.

For example, here is an image with a markdown url wrapped around it:

[![](https://i.postimg.cc/5HF9qwtP/Quake-4-Dead-Strogg.png)](https://postimg.cc/5HF9qwtP)
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As you can see it now works as expected.

Normal image:
![](https://i.postimg.cc/5HF9qwtP/Quake-4-Dead-Strogg.png)
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Yep, still fine.

Bigger image direct in img tags:
https://i.postimg.cc/TPtyx0vX/Quake-4-Dead-Strogg.png
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Please steer clear of [url] tags.

Last edited by Liam Dawe on 3 January 2020 at 7:04 pm UTC
Hamish Jan 3, 2020
As always cheers Liam. ^_^
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