I enabled the “topic featured link enabled” setting, but I can’t quite figure out what this is supposed to do. I can see that when I create a new topic, the “Topic” field says “… or paste a link”. However, when I actually do that, the topic simply has the actual link for a title, which is hardly rea…

You can read our 1.7 blog entry about the release for a demo video.

Same doubt here :thinking: [image] codinghorror: You can read our 1.7 blog entry This is the blog post? [image] Discourse 1.7 released! Today, after four months of work, we’re proud to release Discourse 1.7. Featured link is about “Start Topic With a …

Yes. The short answer is that if nothing special happens when you try to use a link as topic, then the target website doesn’t support whatever magic sauce is needed to fetch the data. Facebook seems to be using the same thing, so if your link doesn’t show anything but the link itself when you paste …

[image] int19h: target website doesn’t support whatever magic sauce is needed to fetch the data. And that magic sauce is called Open Graph , right?

This is the original discussion: [image] Start a topic by pasting a link (like Reddit) megaphoneAnnouncements We looked over the checked in work with @neil and are going to make it work this way, which I think is much simpler – it obviates the need for some ca…

What exactly is "topic featured link"?

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neil (Neil Lalonde) May 10, 2017, 2:53pm 6

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What exactly is "topic featured link"?

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