Topics that are only images have [image] as the meta description

techAPJ · October 17, 2018, 9:27am

Verified that alt image text is used in post excerpt as per:

lib/excerpt_parser.rb

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              else
                return characters(attributes["alt"])
              end
            end
          
            unless @strip_images
              # If include_images is set, include the image in markdown
              characters("!") if @markdown_images
          
              if !attributes["alt"].blank?
                characters("[#{attributes["alt"]}]")
              elsif !attributes["title"].blank?
                characters("[#{attributes["title"]}]")
              else
                characters("[#{I18n.t 'excerpt_image'}]")
              end
          
              characters("(#{attributes['src']})") if @markdown_images
            end
          
          when "a"

The post just above as seen on your activity page:

Also, based on my local testing I noticed that in some cases we were showing blank meta description. Fixed that issue via:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/42c405a8200f9e481bcd64a18beabed9a8dea8d4

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Topics that are only images have [image] as the meta description

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