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A public repo for discussing FeedLand at A8C.
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Facebook/Twitter metadata in the head section of home page html #79

Open scripting opened 7 months ago

scripting commented 7 months ago

When you paste a link to a page from FeedLand into a social media post, it often looks for Facebook or Twitter metadata in the head section of the home page html. You can see this in Slack for example. It's all kind of ridiculous because FeedLand isn't really an application, and the screen shot of my feed list probably has very little to do with what you'll find when you click the link.

It also points to feedland.org, and my username on Twitter, etc.

I'm inclined to reduce this data to an absolute minimum, just the product name and a link to feedland.com. But this needs a little thought and testing to arrive at a good long-term answer.

fmfernandes commented 7 months ago

I think removing the screen shot would be a great start. As you mentioned it has very little to do with what people will be sharing. The description is nice and we already have the favicon. Maybe changing the image to be the same as the favicon? Though I think we could just skip the image altogether.

In the head section you could change twitter:url and og:url to take into account the domain the instance is running, thus not forcing feedland.org.

Would be good though, to define og:image and twitter:image:src on a per instance basis, defined in a setting or something, defaulting to null.

scripting commented 7 months ago

Totally want to nuke the image. It's so embarrassing.

scripting commented 7 months ago

In the end I did make most of the things I turned off optional through config values.

I don't want to close this yet, there's still more to consider nuking as being too irritating.