# Should onebox fall back on mini-onebox if no metadata is available?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-onebox-fall-back-on-mini-onebox-if-no-metadata-is-available/74250
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 17, 2017, 9:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-onebox-fall-back-on-mini-onebox-if-no-metadata-is-available/74250 "2017-11-17T09:41:54Z")
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### Author: ![icaria36](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/icaria36/32/426431_2.png) [@icaria36](https://meta.discourse.org/u/icaria36)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-onebox-fall-back-on-mini-onebox-if-no-metadata-is-available/74250/4 "2017-11-20T20:50:14Z")

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For what is worth, I noted this behavior by coincidence and I wasn’t sure about what was going on - see [OneBox doesn't render boxes for Phabricator URLs - #6 by icaria36](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-doesnt-render-boxes-for-phabricator-urls/74421/6).

The space trick is simple and very useful… once you know it. I had noted that (some? all?) external URLs show the page title when placed in the middle of a paragraph, but I hadn’t made an association to exploiting this feature as standalone link with an extra space.

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