I’d also like to see this. Whilst it’s important to encourage OG adoption, we should have some kind of basic fallback (favicon, site title) so that Discourse users are not confused when they paste a URL into the title box and nothing happens.
Yeah, I’m about to try and encourage a “quick-fire” sharing community off of Facebook and support for previews is imho a really important aspect that needs to be solid (and one of the reasons I got involved in contributing to the TLP plugin).
Oh … I think I’ve found part of the problem … on multiple sites (even on Meta) I can reproduce this:
When I paste a link into Title it doesn’t always convert into a Title … sometimes you are left with a URL. This is an intermittent issue … is this rate limited locally or remotely, somehow? Interestingly, once it works, you can delete it and it will work again instantly … as if being cached?
Rebuilding the HTML of the first post does not fix the Title even if it’s still a URL.
NB I don’t see any javascript errors on console when this fails.
You could try curl https://private-island-tours.com | grep \"og: from your server as a quick check. If this comes back with no rows of source, you know you the page does not contain those tags or your server is being blocked from crawling.
In this case I cannot see the tags. You could reach out to the webmaster and encourage her to add them!
