# OneBox doesn't render boxes for Phabricator URLs

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [20.Ноябрь.2017 12:58:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-doesnt-render-boxes-for-phabricator-urls/74421 "2017-11-20T12:58:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![epriestley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/epriestley/32/82937_2.png) [@epriestley](https://meta.discourse.org/u/epriestley)\
**Post date:** [22.Ноябрь.2017 22:48:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-doesnt-render-boxes-for-phabricator-urls/74421/18 "2017-11-22T22:48:14Z")

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Phabricator is a collection of software development applications similar to the Atlassian suite (code review, wiki, repositories, bug tracking, etc).

All the content is user-generated, so we can’t generate a useful synthetic description in the general case: we have no idea what a particular wiki page is for, or why a user didn’t add a description to a bug, or why a commit message is blank, why a cluster topology record exists, or why a blog post is just a picture of a cat. In many cases, these resources are still useful and relevant in context.

I imagine users posting or reading links to Phabricator are likely have a good understanding of that context. It’s unlikely that you’d go to `discourse.digimon-enthusiasts.net` and post a link to a Phabricator install, and more likely that you’d go to `discourse.seriouscompany.com` and post a link to, e.g., a bug in that company’s bug tracker or a page in their software documentation which might be hosted on Phabricator, which most users reading the discussion would understand.

In fact, OneBox already generates a similar box for GitHub issues with no description:

[https://github.com/epriestley/poems/issues/4](https://github.com/epriestley/poems/issues/4)

And for commits with no message:

[https://github.com/epriestley/poems/commit/da741f11202f505ead4514591d837b729bb8ce63](https://github.com/epriestley/poems/commit/da741f11202f505ead4514591d837b729bb8ce63)

So maybe this is a bug with many existing OneBox integrations instead, where the implementation fails users when resources have no natural description?

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