Following on from other post which is closed
The topic tag meta description has stopped working, basically when I update the topics description it doesn’t update the meta description.
Old ones are working fine
https://www.carptalk.org/tag/Ridgemonkey
new topics stay as “topics tagged xxxxx”
can anyone help?
I’ve just had a quick repro attempt on my test site but the new tag + description onebox is working for me. But… I have been lazy and not updated for awhile (1a5377cf93).
Let me update and try again, and then if it doesn’t work on a second test then we can at least rifle through the intervening commits and maybe narrow down if something has happened in the interim. 
After updating (8f89e287d3) and attempting again (both with an existing tag + new description as well as a new tag + description) it all seems to be working fine. The tag link oneboxes on another site with the tag description included.
@Damian_Boon Is this happening for all of your new tag descriptions or only some?
Whats your site so i can test?
I’m afraid my ‘test site’ is now my family site, so it’s not public (I briefly toggled off login required for this test).
But here’s a screenshot of the tag links copied over to a friend’s test site to check:
And an extra one copying over your tag description in case there was something specific with that:
Let’s test this out here on meta. The completed tag has a description which should show up in a onebox below.
The tag onebox for completed isn’t showing for me here either I am not sure why. Same thing for release-notes apparently. Also has a description.
https://meta.discourse.org/tag/release-notes
Adding /latest seems to get us closer but an error is shown in the composer preview:
Sorry, we were unable to generate a preview for this web page, because the following oEmbed / OpenGraph tags could not be found: image, title
Still doesn’t display as a onebox.
This is my issue, its been broke for months and can’t get anybody to look into it or any of the team to respond
OK, great! So it appears there are some replicable problems here which is good. That will help engineers hopefully with finding the source of the problem!
I am moving this to Bug and slapping staff-experience on it so the staff experience team can take a look when they get a chance.
“Korda” tag on carptalk.org works correctly - the onebox description is the same as the description you see when you visit the page. https://forum.carptalk.org/tag/Korda
“Horcott-lakes” does not work correctly - the onebox description is the default, as though there is no description specified. But when you visit the page you see the description is specified. On that page though the meta description does not correctly show the description but rather <meta name="description" content="Topics tagged horcott-lakes"> . https://forum.carptalk.org/tag/horcott-lakes
Here on meta none of the tag oneboxes we’ve tried is working at all here in this topic - just the URL is displaying. e.g. https://meta.discourse.org/tag/release-notes has a description that you can see on the page.
The expected behavior is that in all these cases the onebox will show and also contain the description specified for the tag.
Correct but i don’t see why we can’t have 2 options on the tag edit page - one for Meta Title and one for Meta description - same for categories. I can prove that we would be losing out on 100k+ uniques a month traffic wise, all discourse users would benefit from this and see a huge traffic increase as tags are some of the most important when users are Googling. My other site which I showed you has literally no h1 tag or text on the page (just lists of results) on the tags and generates 20k+ unique visitors a month
I believe you but we have to take baby steps here. For this topic let’s work on identifying if there is a bug with the existing tag description functionality and try to get that fixed up.
