# No thumbnails on Facebook Share
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-thumbnails-on-facebook-share/29194
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2015年五月24日 15:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-thumbnails-on-facebook-share/29194 "2015-05-24T15:59:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Pablo\_Macaluso](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pablo_Macaluso)
#### Post date: [2015年五月24日 15:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-thumbnails-on-facebook-share/29194/1 "2015-05-24T15:59:59Z")
I have this problem always share something on facebook, maybe with a thumbnail, looks better.
Maybe add a function to grab images from the post or video. Or a option in the editor “Upload Thumbnail”
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### Author:  [@piotrek\_lisowsk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/piotrek_lisowsk)
#### Post date: [2015年五月24日 16:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-thumbnails-on-facebook-share/29194/2 "2015-05-24T16:03:32Z")
Yes, we want thumbnails! On [topic lists](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reddit-style-picture-thumbnail-on-the-left/13089/36) and on facebook sharing. You have done for us a great piece of software. Only those thumbnails are missing.
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### Author:  [@Devanil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Devanil)
#### Post date: [2015年五月24日 20:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-thumbnails-on-facebook-share/29194/3 "2015-05-24T20:45:12Z")
The Discourse choose the first image of the topic to use as a thumbnail. When there are no pictures on the topic, it does not show.
You can manually add a default thumbnail. Add this code in ``
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### Author:  [@Pablo\_Macaluso](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pablo_Macaluso)
#### Post date: [2015年五月24日 20:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-thumbnails-on-facebook-share/29194/4 "2015-05-24T20:47:01Z")
> [@Devanil](#):
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> The Discourse choose the first image of the topic to use as a thumbnail. When there are no pictures on the topic, it does not show.
But what about the video posts?, theres another way to grab the thumbnail of the video maybe?
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### Author:  [@Rahul\_Dhingra](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rahul_Dhingra)
#### Post date: [2015年九月12日 20:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-thumbnails-on-facebook-share/29194/5 "2015-09-12T20:51:43Z")
> [@Devanil](#):
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> he Discourse choose the first image of the topic to use as a thumbnail. When there are no pictures on the topic, it does not show.
not really this is what i get in preview (first image)
And this is what it post on fb ( smiley from last reply /post)
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### Author:  [@charleswalter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charleswalter)
#### Post date: [2015年九月13日 03:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-thumbnails-on-facebook-share/29194/6 "2015-09-13T03:42:32Z")
Having similar problems trying to promote posts on FAcebook. This is the posts I wanted to share, which the user had added a number of photos for.
[http://www.helloforos.com/t/los-protagonistas-de-maria-la-del-barrio-20-anos-despues/17343](http://www.helloforos.com/t/los-protagonistas-de-maria-la-del-barrio-20-anos-despues/17343)
Instead, I just get this.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [2015年九月13日 03:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-thumbnails-on-facebook-share/29194/7 "2015-09-13T03:46:56Z")
Wow, that image is from the 10th post.
I have no idea what Facebook is doing to pick up that image, but I know that it certainly isn’t Discourse doing it.
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### Author:  [@charleswalter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charleswalter)
#### Post date: [2015年九月13日 04:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-thumbnails-on-facebook-share/29194/8 "2015-09-13T04:19:37Z")
Strange. I just tried it again when I was logged in as the page, and not my personal account. And this time it gave me the option to upload an image. Maybe since it was the first time the page was being shared, FB didn’t know how to handle it well.
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### Author:  [@charleswalter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charleswalter)
#### Post date: [2015年九月13日 04:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-thumbnails-on-facebook-share/29194/9 "2015-09-13T04:24:48Z")
Perhaps it’s a FB bug? or an issue with the first time Facebook accesses the HTML version of a Discourse page?
I just tried this experiment.
1. Share a post URL on Facebook with a photo in it. I got a link to the topic, but no photo was shown in the preview.
2. Refresh the Facebook page without posting the content. This time I saw a default photo.
 
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [2015年九月13日 13:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-thumbnails-on-facebook-share/29194/10 "2015-09-13T13:09:40Z")
@charleswalter I have to do those same steps with a non-discourse site. No idea why.
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [2015年九月13日 15:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-thumbnails-on-facebook-share/29194/11 "2015-09-13T15:49:25Z")
You can see what information facebook is getting from a URL here:
> **[Sharing Debugger - Meta for Developers](https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/)**
It seems that for a page that facebook hasn’t already scraped you need to click on ‘Fetch new scrape information’ after entering the URL. The same is true if you update the content of a page and want facebook to update its scrape information.
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### Author:  [@charleswalter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charleswalter)
#### Post date: [2015年九月13日 18:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-thumbnails-on-facebook-share/29194/12 "2015-09-13T18:28:38Z")
Thx. A little different from other sites I’ve worked on where we explicitly set an og:image. But I guess this makes sense.
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### Author:  [@Zolbayar\_Bayarsaikha](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Zolbayar_Bayarsaikha)
#### Post date: [2020年十月29日 00:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-thumbnails-on-facebook-share/29194/13 "2020-10-29T00:19:03Z")
看起来情况依旧如此。即使我的帖子包含多张图片，仍然显示 Discourse 的徽标 🤔
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2020年十一月2日 17:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-thumbnails-on-facebook-share/29194/14 "2020-11-02T17:49:52Z")
我猜帖子中的图片太小了。另外，建议为你的网站设置一个合适的较小尺寸的标志，而不是使用默认的通用 Discourse 标志。