I used to regularly put images in comments by using ![](). Suddenly that does not work anymore, help!

It stopped working for me (and also another user) a few days ago. Until I post the comment it is fine but when I post it, the url of the image is getting automatically changed into a format that does not work.

Before posting it looks like this:

![](https://i.imgur.com/yFXLOOY.jpg)

However, posting it changes the url into this (non working) url

![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FyFXLOOY.jpg)

I will post the same image as a comment in this thread from two different accounts to illustrate.

How did this suddenly change, I never had problems posting images in comments before?

What can I do to fix this? I like posting images in comments and would be very happy if I could go back to it?

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It’s occasionally breaking for us due to imgur rate limiting the lemm.ee server. I am planning to disable proxying for a few well known image hosting sites (including imgur) soon - it requires some additional development, but I think I’ll be able to do it in the next few days. Sorry for the inconvenience!

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I see! Alright then, thank you and keep up the good work!

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I’ve changed the logic now to no longer proxy imgur images, so their rate limits should no longer affect us!

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Nice! Thanks man!

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Tested again just now. Still seems busted.

Still this code added in, breaking image-linking attempts:

https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=

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Please link me the image you were trying to post there, so i can try to reproduce the error.

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EDIT: Non-polite, frustrated words.
Old man ranting at clouds, basically.

Sorry folks, sorry.

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Thanks for this thread and the replies, and I just wanted to add on that there are additional issues going on, related or not. For example:

Our community (“lemm.ee/c/eurographicnovels” no longer shows up in “Lemmy Explorer.”

For example, we were the #2 listing for a long time, until ten days ago, when these three issues first manifested.

See:
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=graphic+novels

“Graphic novels” is literally our title, and the wording routinely occurs throughout our posts, but we’re now invisible?

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