You know that in the FOSS space Microsoft does not have a good standing. Asking people on a FOSS based social media to give anonymous answers about another FOSS project through a Microsoft service is a bit of an oversight.

I don’t see why the moderation tools couldn’t just be improved on Lemmy. The new moderator view has been very useful for me as a moderator. We already have Lemmy and Kbin. The Sublinks about page doesn’t say how it is going to be different/better than the existing options apart from moderation tools. On top of that it is made in Java instead of Rust? That’s just going backwards in my opinion… This post also does not state why you guys are interested in a Lemmy alternative. You could have named some issues you have with it and why something else would be better(just like the Sublinks guys could have done in their about page). I started my communities here and put a lot of effort in them. I can’t just switch instances without destroying most of the work done. The language used here really makes it sound like this instance is on borrowed time. Being able to transfer communities to another instance would be nice…

I use postimages every day so I hope it will be whitelisted.

It doesn’t seem to work on my end. There is no thumbnail, clicking on the ‘image’ icon doesn’t show it. I can only get to the image if I click on the post and then click on the title of the post and then it opens up, but by replacing the tab by the image.

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Ok, this is quite weird, your example works fine on Chromium but not on Firefox. I hardened my firefox a bit so maybe it’s my fault. It doesn’t work because Twitter put in trackers along with the image and thus it is blocked. I will avoid linking to media from twitter directly.

Thanks, your answer makes sense. Changing the regex so it does not need the ‘.’ will lead to undesirable behaviour as links with hashes in them could randomly contain something like ‘png’. Adding individual support for sites (like Twitter) might be a bad idea as it complicates things.

Interestingly, this Pixiv link ends on ‘.jpg’ yet doesn’t work still: https://i.pximg.net/img-master/img/2020/05/28/00/00/23/81902983_p0_master1200.jpg (src: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/81902983) They might have some extra protection.