Okay, I can deal with the change in the reply window not to show the preview. But it really threw me for a loop that copy-and-pasting an image now only creates a link to the observation. I just spent several minutes trying to figure out how to make it show up as an image like it used to. Was this im…

No, this was a change made by Discourse, see https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-our-new-composer-making-writing-on-discourse-easier-than-ever/369779 If you want to switch back, there is a toggle in the composer [image]

Well, that lets me see the full-width composer with preview, but doesn’t affect the link appearing instead of the image - at least not in a post already made. But by re-pasting the image, it reverted to what I expected. Thank you.

I don’t know how you’re pasting it in, but it’s definitely still possible to paste in observation images (this one is from https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/301979194 ) [image]

You commented while I was editing. The reversion isn’t retroactive. I had to re-paste thr image to get that part.

i noticed the changes, too. it’s doing all sorts of unexpected stuff to my markup and URLs. i hope the Discourse folks fix whatever they did.

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jasonhernandez74 July 30, 2025, 7:48pm 8

I don’t mind the smaller composer in itself. I’ll revert if I want to include an image, and use the new one otherwise.

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