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Slash command embeds not displaying images

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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.

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.

The fix

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.

Thread: gh:discord/discord-api-docs#6171

Evidence

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.

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