Automatically downloading/hosting images is nice, but there needs to be a way to opt out for some images.
For example, this gif is dynamically generated as a countdown to a specific date: http://gifcountdown.com/america-chicago/1431176400/141414/0f0f0f/aaaaaa/fdfdfd/faedad/true/counter.gif
[edit: if that link gets cached as an image, here:
http://gifcountdown.com/america-chicago/1431176400/141414/0f0f0f/aaaaaa/fdfdfd/faedad/true/counter.gif
]
If I embed it with html tags, Discourse will download and cache the current version, making it outdated when people come back and look at it later.
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Is there some property in the tag I can add to tell Discourse to keep the external reference?
edit: Didn't realize simply pasting the image link on its own line would embed it -- testing to see if that's cached as well.
Also, I'd love a Discourse plugin that would let you post auto-converted time/dates like that. ![:wink: wink]()
edit2: It seems to cache images even if they're just posted as links, whether or not they're on their own line (if they weren't on their own line, they change from a link to an embedded image, which changes the post's formatting -- is that intentional?).
edit3: found the remote download whitelist, which helps, but it'd be nice for users to have that ability on a case by case basis. The formatting change still seems weird to me.
edit4: I can't get the remote download whitelist to work ![:sweat: sweat]()