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Summary | Enables title-only oneboxes |
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Repository Link | https://github.com/dsims/discourse-onebox-title-only |
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Install Guide | How to install plugins in Discourse |
If a linked webpage is missing description or image metadata, Discourse will normally leave it as a URL and not onebox it. This plugin changes that behavior to allow for title-only oneboxes.
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Cool, thanks for writing and publishing the plugin.
Maybe we should adopt this in core? Seems like a better default to me.
The description requirement was actually removed at one point (way back when it was a standalone gem) but then it was reverted a few months later, so I assume there was some reasoning not to do it.
I have only seen a handful of URLs in the wild that match this scenario, so I imagine there are some edge cases where it doesn’t look right.
@dsims it’s not clear at all why this behaviour of allowing oneboxes with no descriptions was backtracked here FIX: do not show title only oneboxes by arpitjalan · Pull Request #448 · discourse/onebox · GitHub , so we will just add this behaviour back into core, no need for a plugin. Will try for a quick PR today for this.
PR is here:
One thing I did not address is that the composer preview still has a message implying that there is an issue generating the onebox.
Ah thanks for letting me know, I didn’t see this because I posted too fast when testing. Fixing in the same PR…
Thanks! World’s fastest deprecated plugin? 
