So. it appears that the tool generating the html isnāt generating those parameters.
Discourse, Imgur or Roonā¦.
Itās discourse as I can paste the link fine into WhatsApp and it works. Another discourse forum it doesnāt work. On avforums which is none discourse it works. So something must have changed in the way discourse handles them?
@benjamin - this is a Discourse issue. It began when Roon Labs last updated the version of Discourse used for the forumā¦ The forum software was last updated on June 2nd, and this thread started reporting the issue on June 5thā¦
https://i.imgur.com/W0czDiV.png
The issue is still presentā¦ 
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Sure is
https://i.imgur.com/K3dAfFV.png
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Thanks for the heads up on this everyone! Weāll get moving on a solution asap. 
Hi All,
After investigating this issue further, it seems discourse is being blocked from Imgur directly, which is unfortunately out of our control. Here is some additional reading on the subject:
Ah, bugger. How tiresome of Imgur.
https://i.imgur.com/MfaozCB.png
the workaround is to add a few html characters to the link:
<img src="https://i.imgur.com/MfaozCB.png"> - which will then display the image correctly:
But for non-technical members of the community this is probably a step too far.
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Hi Benjamin, is the situation, blocking discourse, that straightforward?
Imgur links are still working for many users which suggests that something else is happening?
From your link, and my limited knowledge of html, it appears that Discourse isnāt generating valid html tags to enable image previews as described by rahim123ā¦.
Nope, itās Imgur who have imposed a rate limit on calls to their service. If you happen to make a call to the service (by posting the link in Discourse) while the rate is under the limit, then the image will be displayed correctly. If itās over the limit, Imgur returns an error, and Discourse canāt display the image directly.
The workaround is to manually change the HTML in Discourse, bypassing simply pasting the copied link as shown in the post (and as I demonstrated in my previous message).
The suggestion in your quoted post is for the developers of Discourse to insert extra code into Discourse to test for the 429 error and bypass this rate limit halt when it occurs. I wonder if that is legal for a commercial service, and what Imgur would think about that? It smacks of the Ad-blocker arms race that YouTube and Ad-blocker services are wagingā¦
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@benjamin, I am back home and the issue is still there:
Thereās nothing Roon can do about it, see here.