[FOSS4G-UK] update default img when linking to conference website

[Barry Rowlingson]

According to this metatag meta tester, it might look a bit nicer now, but
the title and description are fixed:

https://metatags.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuk.osgeo.org%2Ffoss4guklocal2023%2F

I think ideally one's content management system would have a field for
title and description and the build would pull these out into the meta
tags, but for what we're using that would probably mean everyone writing
some things into the markdown headers. I don't know if the social media
sites were extracting text from the page in absence of a description meta
tag...

Whatever! Thanks Wendy for the clues!

Barry


On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 10:41 AM Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've just tried something with the meta tags, hard to test on a dev site
> though since it seems to need an absolute URL for the preview image, and
> you'd have to post a dev link to a social site.
>
> I don't know if this will magically fixup already-posted social messages
> or only affect new ones - maybe it depends on if the platform has cached
> it...  Anyway, that change is now live and let's see if it helps. I've only
> set the preview image meta tag, its possible it needs a description or
> other text too...
>
> B
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 5:16 PM Wendy Mak <wwymak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> maybe this https://stackoverflow.com/a/65631817 info about how to set
>> meta tags on the site would help?
>>
>> Wendy
>>
>> On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 17:06, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Ugh no idea. Maybe there needs to be some invisible-on-site PNG version
>>> of the logo... But also hard to test without pushing and posting links....
>>> and is it on all social media? Hmmm...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 4:41 PM Sam Franklin <mr.samfranklin at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey list. Not massively urgent but would be nice to fix (Might be a
>>>> question to @Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at gmail.com>) ?
>>>>
>>>> I've just noticed that when you link to the conference site from a
>>>> social media site (just saw this on linkedin and mastadon).
>>>>
>>>> A malformed version of the addresscloud logo is previewed, which
>>>> doesn't look great, I have nothing against addresscloud obvs ;-) See
>>>> example below.
>>>>
>>>> I'd guess that the addresscloud is the first png/jpg that gets crawled
>>>> over and bypasses the .svg that Barry did. Is there a way to get a nice
>>>> version of the conference logo/identity that fixes the social media
>>>> previews.
>>>>
>>>> I just hand-crafted a png to get round this for a linkedin post.
>>>>
>>>> I'd offer to fix this on the site but am not sure how/the best way.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> S
>>>>
>>>> Example of the current preview:
>>>>
>>>> [image: image.png]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> Sam Franklin
>>>>
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