# Opengraph tag refresh

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/opengraph-tag-refresh/297867>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [March 4, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/opengraph-tag-refresh/297867 "2024-03-04T19:58:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 8:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/opengraph-tag-refresh/297867/2 "2024-03-04T20:02:10Z")

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> [@jidanni](#):
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> True, but Discourse fooled me into thinking it refreshed the link preview.

Yeah. There are a bunch of cases where the browser sees one thing and Discourse sees another when it bakes the post (like if the Discourse server is rate limited). And speaking of rate limiting, how many times do you think Discourse should keep polling the remote server to see if something has changed?

Your `#` trick was clever.

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