drop og: meta tags as FB appears to not use them anyway

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drop og: meta tags as FB appears to not use them anyway #6

Closed tantek closed 10 years ago

tantek commented 10 years ago

Let's drop all the og: meta stuff from the indiewebcamp site/wiki since they don't seem to be used by FB at all in link previews, and just add to page weight.

pfefferle commented 10 years ago

That's because some of the fields are not set correctly. for example:

og:url has to point to the actual url and not to the root url
og:site_url is for the root

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Findiewebcamp.com%2FPrinciples

aaronpk commented 10 years ago

Thanks for pointing me to Facebook's debugger. I've removed the "url" property since I can't figure out how to retrieve that from the MediaWiki skin. It seems to be somewhat happy now.

I tried removing all the tags and running it through the validator. That ended up having their parser find all the sponsor logos as the image for the page, which would not look great when posted to Facebook, so I figured it was better to leave the tags in.