I want to be able to have a different image when people share a topic on social networks. How do I set it per page? Is there a plugin for this?

I agree regarding that. Just go to Facebook.com and paste a link to a Discourse post with no images. Is it blank?

My apologies. Just tried it and Facebook seems to have changed its behavior, now it pulls the image correctly when sharing this page. If I want a large image, though, I would have to somehow set the meta og:image Anyway… thanks for your attention!

I also wanted to say that I found the settings I was advocating are already in the Settings! Cool!

[image] codinghorror: If you link to a post, sharing uses the first image of the first post you linked to. I like the way this works, and images in social shares are very effective. However, I find that many first posts in topics don’t include images, so I have to massage my posts on Twitter and Facebook to include an image. This is a) fiddly and b) only benefits my social media shares and not other peoples’ I’d really appreciate a new feature allowing mods/admins to upload an image to assign to a topic for the purposes of social shares. We could go in and edit people’s posts to include an image, but I have found people can take issue with the content of their posts being edited, understandably so. And they may not understand why their posts are being edited to include an image.

[image] ChrisBeach: However, I find that many first posts in topics don’t include images, so I have to massage my posts on Twitter and Facebook to include an image. This is a) fiddly and b) only benefits my social media shares and not other peoples’ As already stated above, we’re going to change it so the site logo is used for topic links if there are no images in the first post, since that’s how Discourse oneboxes other Discourse instances already, see examples posted earlier in this very topic. However for deep links to individual posts, the user avatar will still be used if the post does not contain an image.

[image] codinghorror: we’re going to change it so the site logo is used for topic links if there are no images in the first post Yes, I can already get this behaviour by setting the default OG image. However, this isn’t as engaging or topical as an image that’s tailored to the topic in hand. It would be great for mods/admins to be able to upload and assign an image per topic

Yes, and they can do that by editing the first post, or changing the site’s logo. [image] ChrisBeach: It would be great for mods/admins to be able to upload and assign an image per topic This is not on any of our roadmaps for the forseeable future.

[image] codinghorror: This is not on any of our roadmaps for the forseeable future. No worries. I may see if I can reuse the image upload code from core settings, and the Topic List Previews code that @angus wrote and perhaps I can knock up a plugin to achieve this.

[image] codinghorror: I tend to agree that we should normalize behavior here, in the first case… when no image exists in the first post, go ahead and use the site logo Currently if the topic first post does not have an image we are defaulting to opengraph_image setting. I’ll modify the code to use logo if the opengraph_image setting is blank. So the priority for topic opengraph image will be: first post image > opengraph_image > logo.

Set the image used for social network sharing?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) January 30, 2019, 9:41am 18

Yes, and they can do that by editing the first post, or changing the site’s logo.

This is not on any of our roadmaps for the forseeable future.

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Set the image used for social network sharing?

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