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@staff

hey folks! we're changing the innards of the code that renders posts on our way to turning on inline attachments; the post composer still isn't capable of creating posts with attachments inline, but we're working on that right now.

this change has a big risk of subtle bugs so we're starting by rolling it out to 10% of users; please keep an eye out for any posts that look weird in a way that you think might be unintentional, and let us know. we'll finish rolling it out hopefully within the next week or so.


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This is fairly tangential and not particularly important, but are there any plans that for gradual rollouts in the future, we can get some place to confirm if the change is active for our account? I know there's times where it's pretty much required to not tell people if they're being grouped into a tests, but being A/B tested without being able to even check if it's happening feels a little frustrating in the context of a site that's intentionally avoiding a lot of other website and social media dark patterns. Anyways, looking forward to improved inline attachments in the future!

excited to see this completed!

question in the meantime: with the approach people have been using, where you upload an attachment, copy the uploaded image URL, remove the attachment, and paste in the URL in markdown or an image tag – does that risk the image getting deleted at some point, because it no longer belongs to any post? or does garbage collection take into account images that are linked in chosts, even if they've been removed from the attachment list?