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Improve social media previews #34

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lidel opened this issue Jun 21, 2020 · 3 comments · Fixed by #36
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Improve social media previews #34

lidel opened this issue Jun 21, 2020 · 3 comments · Fixed by #36
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dif/medium Prior experience is likely helpful effort/hours Estimated to take one or several hours help wanted Seeking public contribution on this issue kind/enhancement A net-new feature or improvement to an existing feature need/analysis Needs further analysis before proceeding P2 Medium: Good to have, but can wait until someone steps up topic/design-content Content design, writing, information architecture topic/design-ux UX strategy, research, not solely visual design

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lidel commented Jun 21, 2020

People share links on social media and forums. Most of places have "oneboxing" logic, which turns link into more rich preview card with title, one line summary, and a thumbnail:

shared link card on facebook

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Right now, when someone shares IPFS dir listing on social media, the card includes title, but instead of summary, we get random text from the page and no image.

Our directory listing pages should include relevant metadata in meta headers, so if someone shares a link to a directory, it looks better, provides educational information that the link is content-addressed + perhaps has an IPFS-themed thumbnail to make share more interesting.

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I beleive we should make it look good in three most popular contexts:

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cc @jessicaschilling (this is the thing I briefly mentioned it the other day)

@lidel lidel added kind/enhancement A net-new feature or improvement to an existing feature help wanted Seeking public contribution on this issue dif/medium Prior experience is likely helpful P2 Medium: Good to have, but can wait until someone steps up need/analysis Needs further analysis before proceeding topic/design-content Content design, writing, information architecture topic/design-ux UX strategy, research, not solely visual design effort/hours Estimated to take one or several hours labels Jun 21, 2020
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I think my Facebook developer account is still active. I'll play around with this.

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For my own reference - here are the ones we implemented in docs: ipfs-inactive/docs#343 (comment)

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This can be closed via #36

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