[alehul]

If you click on the images, it'll open to the actual comment in text form.

While load times for images are worse, this format provides some handy advantages, namely the ability to look through that thread and see more context, read the related article, etc.

[bigiain]

No advantages that a css/html rendered version of the same thing doesn't have, with the loss of accessibility that you'd get using the alternative approach.

This is just "the easy way out". Justifying it otherwise is wrong, in my opinion...

[zerealshadowban]

This would be an easy thing to do and everyday occurrence if we had proper, first-class-citizen transclusion [1] mechanisms as part of the Web standards and their implementations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion#History_and_imple...

[alehul]

That's fair, and true from an engineering perspective. I imagine for YC it comes down to, as with nearly every other company, a prioritization problem.

With the exception of companies like FB with millions of users, the priority of creating a css/html rendered version of text to prevent people from having to click through to copy is quite low.

I suppose I'm defending the image as being the more useful of the two "easy way outs" that are likely to be implemented. :)

[jgtrosh]

It does fit easily with the (admittedly terrible) ubiquitous trend of sharing posts between social networks through screenshots.