Show a picture whose address was typed without a scheme

`preview.redd.it/lz4drsqh0clh1.jpeg?width=1290&...` was rendering as plain text -- not a picture, and not even a link. The bare-address rule has always insisted on `https://`, so anything copied out of an address bar, where the browser hides the scheme, fell through to nothing at all. That predates the inline images from the last commit; it just did not matter until pictures started being worth placing. The rule is deliberately narrow: a host with a dot, a path, and an image extension. Widening it to every schemeless address would be the obvious move and is wrong, because a comment thread is full of dotted, slashed prose -- `src/render/post.ts` would become a link to a website in Tonga, and `node_modules/foo/bar.js` a website in Jersey. Requiring the extension costs nothing here, since the only thing worth guessing a scheme for is a picture. https is assumed. Every host that serves these redirects to it anyway. Checked both ways: the four address shapes that should become pictures do, and nine pieces of ordinary prose that must not -- file paths, a Windows drive letter, a relative path, an email address followed by a filename, a version number -- still do not. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017nMQ2eDKnqALYhAibpTKTu
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@@ -153,7 +153,10 @@ Things worth knowing before editing:
  a key in that same comment's own `media_metadata`, so `resolveInlineImages` is one
  lookup rather than three special cases. A bare `preview.redd.it` address pasted into a
  comment is in there too, keyed by the id inside the URL. Prefer `s.gif` over `s.mp4`
-  for an animated one: a GIF moves in an `<img>` and an MP4 needs a player.
+  for an animated one: a GIF moves in an `<img>` and an MP4 needs a player. An address
+  typed without a scheme counts as well, but only when it ends in an image extension —
+  the rule wants a host, a path *and* that extension, because comments are full of
+  dotted, slashed prose that must not turn into links.
 - **Threads** — same media schema as Instagram (`src/platforms/meta-media.ts`). Its
  payloads are full of empty stub nodes, so the finder only accepts a node with actual
  candidates in it. The page ships the linked post, the author's follow-ups, other