For some reason it keeps making a link out of the URL string instead of embedding the picture. I double checked the syntax, and tried it a couple of times. Did something change or am I having a senior moment? Here is the section with the problem. I've done this with every other section of the story successfully previous to today. https://chyoa.com/chapter/Applying-Oneself.1813714
Some of the syntax characters are escaped. (You probably won't see it if you have RTE activated.) So it looks like Code: !\[\](https://www.deadlyrelations.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Applying-Oneself.png) instead of Code:  I suggest copying the whole syntax and adding it a few lines below. Or type the syntax again and then add the link. If that doesn't work, I can try it for you.
I'm having the same issue, it just seemed to stop working at some point today. I tried the fix and unfortunately that didn't work either, I think it could be a site technical issue?
No, it appears to be escaping those characters automatically, and there doesn't seem to be anything I can do about it, unless the editor has another mode I don't know about.
Thanks for the report. Image embeds should work again as expected. The issue was related to the Rich Text Editor automatically escaping certain Markdown characters, which caused the ![]() syntax to be treated like a normal link. Please try again now. If anything still looks off, feel free to reply here and I’ll take another look.
I've been experiencing an issue over the last couple of weeks with getting images from PH to display at all. They were working before but now something's changed and I'm not sure what's going on. The gifs are still there, I can see them but only through their html5 and not as gifs anymore. And when I'm on Chyoa and logged out I can see the spots were the site is saying images are but I need to be logged in to see them, instead they disappear outright when I do log in. Please help!
I suspect I know the answer to this, but is there a way to link to images stored on Deviant Art, Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Images, etc? The links don't end with the file name/image format so they're not pulling up.
https://photos.fife.usercontent.goo...BYlmvgcNw4t36V97o9A=w739-h947-s-no?authuser=0 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PHnB86BmJXPXb1iVxcT-Y_fHobfFRmGk/view?usp=sharing https://app.box.com/s/mbwsezydn603jws5fnhlse8bzaoshk2z
Deviant Art's links are just insane https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca8...0.rkrlXJI2oaGCsY9VfXn351JfaNeQCu5AVDArigWf6YY
They are probably doing that on purpose to stop hot linking, but yes, none of that will show up as pictures. You will need to save them somewhere else to embed them here. Without the link ending in a known mime type HTML doesn't know what to do with it.
The web server provides the MIME type to the browser through the content-type HTTP header (with the value 'image/jpeg' in the case of bigdamnvillain's last link).
In that last link yes, the rest of them it opens the file in a new window because it doesn't recognize the type.
That DA link may well work. Embed it in the story and see. TheLowKing is right about that, the URL itself doesn't need to end in .img or jpeg, the information does have to be transmitted that it is an image though. The problem is the first three you posted were from file sharing sites, not image sharing sites, and even though that one file was a .png there was no way for this site to know that. I'm using my wordpress site to serve mine, those are pretty cheap and easy to set up. You can direct link to anything in the media folder. It also gives you a place to showcase your own work.
I didn't check the Google links, but the problem with the box.com link is that it's not a link to an image. It's a link to a webpage with an image on it. You can do right click -> copy image link to get a direct link to the image, but whether that's a permalink (ie. one that will still be accessible tomorrow or next month or next year) I don't know.
