Slash command embeds not displaying images

TL;DR

Slash command embeds suddenly not displaying images was a Discord-side outage, confirmed fixed by a Discord maintainer the next morning.

Steps

1. Slash command embeds suddenly not displaying images was a Discord-side outage, confirmed fixed by a Discord maintainer the next morning. If your embeds stop showing images out of nowhere, check the Discord status and recent Discord-side reports before rewriting your embed code, since there's nothing actionable on your side for an outage like this.

When to use

You are seeing this: Discord API - ### Description As of some time between 5:17 PM EST and 8:29 PM EST on Friday, May 19th, slash command image embeds seem to have stopped working. Use this skill when you run into "Slash command embeds not displaying images".

When not to use

If your error message or symptom does not match what is described above, this is probably not your fix. Search for your exact error text instead of forcing this one to fit.

Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

Sources

• https://github.com/discord/discord-api-docs/issues/6171

In gh:discord/discord-api-docs#6171 (https://github.com/discord/discord-api-docs/issues/6171), the issue reported: ### Description As of some time between 5:17 PM EST and 8:29 PM EST on Friday, May 19th, slash command image embeds seem to have stopped working. The ### Steps to Reproduce Send a slash command response with an Embed object containing an image URL or thumbnail URL. ### Expected Behavior Discord will display the image or thumbnail for the provided embed URL ### Current Behavior No image is displayed, despite the image URL being returned in the API response for the slash command response. The verified answer: Slash command embeds suddenly not displaying images was a Discord-side outage, confirmed fixed by a Discord maintainer the next morning. If your embeds stop showing images out of nowhere, check the Discord status and recent Discord-side reports before rewriting your embed code, since there's nothing actionable on your side for an outage like this.