Behaviour described in title observed on Discord, where links not escaped with <url> to pages reachable by Discord's web crawler automatically generate rich media embeds which on click navigate to the linked page, minus URL fragment.
Effect
This causes confusion, as matrix.to without fragment content is nearly useless for onboarding someone to the matrix network.
Possible solutions
Add button which shows compatible clients on matrix.to root page to improve onboarding
Cause
Behaviour described in title observed on Discord, where links not escaped with
<url>to pages reachable by Discord's web crawler automatically generate rich media embeds which on click navigate to the linked page, minus URL fragment.Effect
This causes confusion, as matrix.to without fragment content is nearly useless for onboarding someone to the matrix network.
Possible solutions