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Meta titles and such

flushedpancake - 8-17-2025 at 12:21 AM

So, when linking to a thread/post/forum/user profile, shouldn't we set the meta description of the page to something more relevant? This makes it easier when sending a URL over a social media platform that allows embedding, such as Discord.

Key things I'm curious about would be making sure that unnecessary data is not included within, as well as handling "blank" entities, like posts that only contain an image or YouTube tag.

miqrogroove - 8-19-2025 at 03:47 PM

Is Discord using the page title? I've never tested that.

flushedpancake - 8-27-2025 at 03:48 PM

It doesn't have a preview at all.

IMG_0386.jpeg - 89kB

There's no meta description, so that's probably part of why.

miqrogroove - 8-28-2025 at 10:02 AM

Better explanations in here: How does Slack/Discord generate a website preview when you paste a URL into a message?