Chat: Make Images Clickable / Expandable

We've been having a great experience with chat in our community and by far the #1 reported issue is that there is no way to click on images to expand them / make them downloadable.

Discourse already has this feature in the forums (see screenshot example below). Is there any way this same functionality can be copied over for images uploaded in Chat?

Every other chat app out there (whatsapp, discourse, slack, you name it) allows you to expand images so users think this is a bug with discourse chat. > 80% of our chat users are on mobile and most image uploads are screenshots with text so it's a big usability / accesibility issue for people not to be able to expand them.

Any help appreciated.



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