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Expanding images and video
Any chance we could expand images and video within posts? It's one of the better features of reddit to not have to click away from a post.

Any chance we could expand images and video within posts? It's one of the better features of reddit to not have to click away from a post.
It all depends on the type of the post. For example, we do embed anything that embed.ly gives us the option to in posts, when the posts are created. However, if what you're posting doesn't work with embed.ly, we don't have our own overrides in place yet.
Is there something specific that isn't auto-expanding for you? Most common sites already do that, and if there's one that doesn't, I can add it to our list to look into writing some manual code to do it.
When I put a link to a youtube video or an image in the comments, you have to click through to see it.
Ah, ok, got it. So it's specifically in the comments. That makes more sense.
For images and gifs, you can display them inline by using markdown formatting:
I'll see what we can do with videos.