Journal article no longer displaying correctly

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Step 1: Go here: https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/16497-how-to-photograph-crayfish-for-inaturalist

The page used to include pictures, but now it only includes URLs of the picture locations. There may be other problems as well, like formatting.

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It is probably this issue …
Journal posts have lost formatting - General - iNaturalist Community Forum

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We recently fixed a bug with processing user text that was breaking layouts, but it required changing the way we format user text a little. The specific problem here is how we handle newlines: they’re getting replaced with <br> tags even when they’re inside of other HTML tags. We’ll look into restoring the way it worked before, but I can’t make any promises. Juggling combinations of simple text formatting, Markdown, and HTML is complicated.

Anyway, if you want a quick fix, get rid of the newlines inside of your HTML tags, so change this

<img
src="https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/17793835/original.jpg?1526058900"
width="500">

to this:

<img src="https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/17793835/original.jpg?1526058900" width="500" >
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I made the changes you suggested and that fixes the issue. Thanks!

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