Can I make rendering a new embed image fast/instant for users?

[jacksonthall22]

I want to edit the image in an embed of a sent message. Right now, I'm doing something like this in a bot slash_command:

e = discord.Embed(...)
e.set_image(url='url1')

...  # Do stuff

ctx.respond(embed=e)

...

# Trying to update the embed image is buggy for the user
for packet in stream_ndjson_data():
    e.set_image(url=packet['url'])
    ctx.interaction.edit_original_response(embed=e)

However, when I use the command in Discord, the response disappears for ~0.5s before rendering the new embed each time I try to refresh the image, causing the messages from above the embed to jump back down, which is not the effect I wanted. I want to be able to update just the image in-place. Is this possible, or is it a limitation of Discord? For example, might there be some workaround where I could upload the PNG binary as a discord.File to the response, but make the file attachment invisible, and reference it in the embed so the update speed isn't limited by an HTTPS request at render time (assuming that's the bottleneck)?

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

[JustaSqu1d]

To start off, the GitHub discussions tab is not intended for help-related questions: please ask in our Discord server, instead.

The behavior you're experiencing is a limitation of Discord. When you use ctx.interaction.edit_original_message(embed=e) to update the embed, Discord treats it as a new message and temporarily removes the original message before displaying the updated one. This causes the 0.5s delay and the jumping effect you're observing. Using discord.File as a workaround to reference the image directly in the embed is not necessary in this case. Discord handles image URLs in embeds as efficiently as uploading a PNG since they are both stored on Discord's CDN.