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Ask HN: Would Inline Images On HN Comments Ruin Quality?
How does embedding pictures relate to comment quality? On most other communication platforms, inline media is supported, but it's non-existent on HN. Just wanted to get the communities thoughts on whether or not it's a good idea.
- amirmc 13y agoI think it's a bad idea. It's already possible to have clicky links to elsewhere and seems sufficient. I don't see what value inline images would add.
- krapp 13y agoI personally think it would be fine, although an argument, perhaps, could be made that inline images might bleed off the bandwidth of servers which aren't meant to handle it, so I'd suggest only allowing inline images from sites like imgur if at all. I see no difference in "quality" between linking to an image and embedding it. Apropos of whatever, here's a userscript I wrote last week which embeds imgur image links inside posts. It's not terribly complicated and doesn't cover all of the API or anything but it does work: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/471215 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/471215
- lutusp 13y agoThe issues are server bandwidth and storage. To support images the server would have to store more data and handle much more traffic than it already does. You can already link to an image hosted elsewhere.
- sharemywin 13y agoI'm not sure most of the content benefits from images?