Images from dev.to are not displayed on discord

[Mcdostone]

Bug Report

Current Behavior

I wanted to share my joy to see dev.to open sourced. I posted this link https://dev.to/ben/devto-is-now-open-source-5n1 on a discord developer channel (grafikart.fr For those who know) . The problem is no image is displayed in the thread.

I don't know if the issue comes from dev.to or the discord app but links from other websites (youtube for instance) are displayed properly on discord...

Expected Behavior

When you post a link on discord, you should see the image attached to the dev.to article.

Screenshots

Additional Info

Ubuntu 18.10 Discord 0.0.5 (august 8, 2018)

[rhymes]

Mmm this may or may not be an issue with the app, Discord. The dev.to posts use open graph to describe metadata, the one related to the image is og:image which, in the case of the post you linked is the following:

<meta property="og:image" content="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--DXkV9vkl--/c_imagga_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,h_500,q_auto,w_1000/https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/o6fs3rdrz51u0sn32efg.png" />

which renders the title image:

Have you tried with other posts?

[Zhao-Andy]

Hey ya, @rhymes you’re on the right track with the <meta> tag. I spent some time on this a few weeks back since I use Discord and it bothered me that our images don’t show up. :upside_down_face:

I think the conclusion that I came to was that Cloudinary sends a 401 Access Denied response when Discord’s image servers tries to fetch our images. Whoever takes this up, feel free to follow where I left off if you’d like.

[Zhao-Andy]

Not sure what happened, but I'm seeing image previews for Discord messages! Let us know if you aren't seeing them.