Preview For “Special” Pages On OGS

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Currently links to OGS page (except for links to the forum) have the same preview, i.e., for example online-go.com looks like this here as well as elsewhere, like Facebook and probably most other places on the Web:

But there are certain “special” pages that would much better be displayed differently, like for example online-go.com/learn-to-play-go, which looks just the same:

IMO it would be much better, especially when sharing on Social Networks, if the preview were something like ”Learn To Play Go | OGS” or something similar, ideally with some nice accompanying text :slightly_smiling_face:

This applies to online-go.com/puzzles also, and probably a few other others non-game pages.

What do you think? Would it be possible to make such a change? (I for one can’t do it as I have close to zero coding skills :man_shrugging:)

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It was mentioned 5 years ago by Benjito, and then fixed by Anoek for (some) pages. So it’s very likely possible :slight_smile:

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its actually very easy to fix the preview

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Awesome … @benjito, @anoek (and maybe @SoumyaK4?) … could you please apply some of your magic? <plink plink> :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Agree i think it’s doable and straightforward, but does require access to the backend code so @anoek is the right person for it.

Some more routes enumerated here: Some more OpenGraph titles to fill in (can’t remember if these ones got fixed)

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Oh wow … I totally missed that … thanks … and no, apparently none of these are fixed.

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“Observe Games” should def. also have a more telling preview, perhaps something like this: Watch Games | OGS, ideally also with some explaining text.