There are two ways to insert images, which I agree should be better documented somewhere.
To insert block-level images, you can select a piece of text and press the “image” button, these images will not be resizable.
To insert inline-images you use the markdown syntax of the form (closing parenthesis omitted because otherwise it would get parsed as an image):
![Image text](ImageLink <Closing Parenthesis>
We are working on an editor rework that will make this all less confusing, as well as an editor guide that will document behaviors like this better. Sorry for the confusion.
I think that you mixed them up. When I use the markdown syntax, I get full-width, presumably inline images, not block. Whereas when I follow your other instructions...I can’t follow them. When I select text, I don’t get an image button, just (Bold, Italic, Underline, Link | Title, Blockquote). Is image supposed to be on that list? If so, that’s a simple explanation of the bug.
Re the rest: This was advice for the post-editor. For the comment editor we intentionally don’t make it super easy to attach images, since that makes it too easy to disproportionately get more attention than seems good.
We didn’t deactivate images to make it easier for us on the backend and allow arbitrary content-transfer between posts and comments, but that’s why you don’t see that button (you would see it on the post-editor).
There are two ways to insert images, which I agree should be better documented somewhere.
To insert block-level images, you can select a piece of text and press the “image” button, these images will not be resizable.
To insert inline-images you use the markdown syntax of the form (closing parenthesis omitted because otherwise it would get parsed as an image):
We are working on an editor rework that will make this all less confusing, as well as an editor guide that will document behaviors like this better. Sorry for the confusion.
I think that you mixed them up. When I use the markdown syntax, I get full-width, presumably inline images, not block. Whereas when I follow your other instructions...I can’t follow them. When I select text, I don’t get an image button, just (Bold, Italic, Underline, Link | Title, Blockquote). Is image supposed to be on that list? If so, that’s a simple explanation of the bug.
Yes, you’re right. I mixed that up. Fixed.
Re the rest: This was advice for the post-editor. For the comment editor we intentionally don’t make it super easy to attach images, since that makes it too easy to disproportionately get more attention than seems good.
We didn’t deactivate images to make it easier for us on the backend and allow arbitrary content-transfer between posts and comments, but that’s why you don’t see that button (you would see it on the post-editor).