Fiddling with improved Open Graph support for hosted blogs. I’ve never liked how most social platforms use Open Graph previews. Sometimes they’re great, sometimes they’re redundant, and sometimes they’re plastered over a timeline like ads. But bloggers need more control over this.
@manton actually, it may be my favorite part of the excerpt feature is it was pulled in as the open graph … description? or whatever.
@manton hooray, love it when your work brings you to revisit items I’ve wanted improved :-) thank you in advance
@manton Agreed. Curious to see what you come up with. Currently, Facebook (as much as I detest using it, it’s where my friends & family are) doesn’t show any preview for my site, insisting it be connected to a Facebook page.
@moonmehta The way they’re doing it is what I mean by redundant, though. It’s the title in an image when the title is already there in text. Feels like a waste of space.
@manton True. Although the title may not always be in text if someone shared the link with other text of their own. I was mostly thinking of it as being better than images as cover, which as Jim Nielson pointed in o(m)g:image are rather pointless.