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    This comment perplexes me. A direct link to the image? Why not either embed that link so the image appears here on Lemmy without clicking a link, or link to the comic page which has both the comic and the title text?

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      Neither of those is a good approach, because part of every xkcd comic is the hover text.

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        part of every xkcd comic is the hover text.

        Yes…that would be why you would link directly to the comic…?

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          I was referring to the image-only link and the embed that you suggested. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.

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            Of course, with an embedded direct link, you could put the title text in as alt text:

            Her daughter is named Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory.

            Unfortunately that won’t always show up in the same way title text does.