I think the EA Forum should allow authors to pick one of the images they attached into their post as the “preview image” when the post is shared on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
I don’t think this feature currently exists, and I think it would help drive traffic to the EA Forum whenever posts are shared. I’m assuming that the authors would link an image that is more enticing than the standard EA forum logo, which would result in slightly higher click-through rates. Medium.com and most other CMS’s allow you to pick a preview image. I think Medium.com’s UI for picking a “featured image” is a good example of how to design this feature.
Adding to the better preview image for twitter, I notice other sites have top quotes from the article as a cover image, which I think is pretty interesting.
(probably not worth implementing, but just for inspiration really)
Hm I tried linking a recent EA Forum post with an image (image is at the bottom) just now on Facebook, and the EA forum photo is still the one showing up. I tried running it via the Facebook sharing debugger and pressing “Scrape Again”, but it still shows the same photo.
I think the EA Forum should allow authors to pick one of the images they attached into their post as the “preview image” when the post is shared on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
I don’t think this feature currently exists, and I think it would help drive traffic to the EA Forum whenever posts are shared. I’m assuming that the authors would link an image that is more enticing than the standard EA forum logo, which would result in slightly higher click-through rates. Medium.com and most other CMS’s allow you to pick a preview image. I think Medium.com’s UI for picking a “featured image” is a good example of how to design this feature.
Adding to the better preview image for twitter, I notice other sites have top quotes from the article as a cover image, which I think is pretty interesting.
(probably not worth implementing, but just for inspiration really)
Thanks! No worries about suggesting “inspirational” features.
I am reasonably confident that we use the first image that is used in a post as the preview image, so you can already mostly do this.
Hm I tried linking a recent EA Forum post with an image (image is at the bottom) just now on Facebook, and the EA forum photo is still the one showing up. I tried running it via the Facebook sharing debugger and pressing “Scrape Again”, but it still shows the same photo.
Huh, you’re right. I will look into it.