More informative onebox for forum categories and tags

When linking to a Discourse category, would be nice if the onebox image (and other related image metadata used on Facebook) could be specified at the category level. I think this topic has come up previously, but wanted to resurface.

Example category link…

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For tags, right now it even does not show the tag name.

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Good point, we should have better OpenGraph support here, at minimum similar to what we do for categories… may I add this to your list @blake?

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Hi,

I started looking into this one and noticed that there is actually very little information about tags. No description or fancier title. So far I’ve got this. Any pointers on what I should next?

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I think there’s a limit to what you can do here with tags, as tags don’t have a long description like categories do. I suppose “better than what we had” should suffice?

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While you’re at it, you may want to take a look at oneboxes for users/groups:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-user-gallery-in-a-post/47960/3?u=erlend_sh

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