Currently, there isn't any easy way to submit images inline with articles. Authors could host them elsewhere themselves or link directly to another website, but this is not a great solution in the long run as it may result in certain images going missing if the creator decides to move / change them - not to mention other problems with usage permissions; certain hosts may not like us publishing pages that fetch images from their servers. We will need to ensure that all images can be / are published under the public domain, too.
I'm not sure how to do this - we could have an images folder in this repository for submitters to put their images in, but that means that all of the URLs would have to go to /_posts/images/<image> rather than the more intuitive ./images/<image> that one would expect to use. Making a PR to add the images to another repository before submitting the article would also yield similar problems (not to mention the increased amount of work for the submitter).
Maybe a separate repository for images (with the same attribution / CLA) is the best idea? /images/<image> is at least a tiny bit more intuitive. It doesn't solve all of our problems, though.
Currently, there isn't any easy way to submit images inline with articles. Authors could host them elsewhere themselves or link directly to another website, but this is not a great solution in the long run as it may result in certain images going missing if the creator decides to move / change them - not to mention other problems with usage permissions; certain hosts may not like us publishing pages that fetch images from their servers. We will need to ensure that all images can be / are published under the public domain, too.
I'm not sure how to do this - we could have an
imagesfolder in this repository for submitters to put their images in, but that means that all of the URLs would have to go to/_posts/images/<image>rather than the more intuitive./images/<image>that one would expect to use. Making a PR to add the images to another repository before submitting the article would also yield similar problems (not to mention the increased amount of work for the submitter).Maybe a separate repository for images (with the same attribution / CLA) is the best idea?
/images/<image>is at least a tiny bit more intuitive. It doesn't solve all of our problems, though.