ABC News not oneboxing due to missing description

Fair enough.

It does seem weird to me that if the choices are:

OPTION A - current behavior if no description available

Hey, check out this article:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/cats-saved-gov-t-kitten-slaughterhouse-visit-capitol-purr-thank-n1034811

OPTION B - (suggested change) draw onebox even though no description available

Hey, check out this article:

Really, people prefer option A over bption B? (And more to the point-- really, folks complained that option B was ugly? It seems perfectly workable to me, aesthetically…)

Not sure I follow what you are saying here? When I post a link on Twitter, if there’s no description, it still expands fine? Here’s a test I just did with the CNN link from my 1st post in this thread.

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And here’s how Discourse currently renders the exact same link:

So glad people are taking care of the doggies…

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/15/health/gallery/coronavirus-people-adopting-pets-photos/index.html

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