The FAQ/Guidelines link in Discourse does not onebox when shared. Heather_Dudley and JimPas have tried sharing the link, but it doesn’t display a preview. According to JimPas, this is because the link is missing the required description tag or does not contain enough text to summarize the page, which is necessary for oneboxing to work. Heather_Dudley is also frustrated with the limitations of the guidelines page, including the inability to change the /faq link, which doesn’t accurately reflect the page’s content.
I’ve noticed when trying to share the FAQ/Guidelines link, it doesn’t onebox. Is there a reason for that? It seems to apply to all of the system-generated links in the hamburger menu.
Example here on meta:
https://meta.discourse.org/faq
It would seem to me that we should be able to link and onebox our own internal links!
Moving this to Contribute > UX – pretty sure it goes there.
I just tried to OneBox the FAQ link in my forum to a test category we use for things such as this. It did not OneBox. From my understanding, if the site doesn’t have certain information (data) that is related to the link, there is nothing to OneBox. We have come across several external links that have not OneBoxed. There was an explanation regarding how OneBox works, what it does and looks for in a URL. Here’s the link to the discussion.
"Please note that Discourse does require the description tag to be present and contain enough text to summarize the page, or the target link will not onebox. "
Once you’ve pasted the link, behind the scenes, onebox visits the destination page and checks for Open Graph or oEmbed tags, including:
Please note that Discourse does require the description tag to be present and contain enough text to summarize the page, or the target link will not onebox.
Here’s the link:
So we we’re updating our guidelines again, and once again I am stymied by the bizarre nature of this function. Guidelines still don’t onebox or behave with the functionality of a topic. Also don’t love the inability to change the /faq link… it isn’t an FAQ, and that isn’t even the name of the page in the templates.