Posting links to comments (at Discord) results in wrong text in "thumbnail" preview

[PrimalxConvoy]

Whenever I post a link at Discord (or perhaps other sites/chat apps), the text in the preview is always for a previous/older post. This means that my links, although correct, might not be clicked on (as they appear to be the "wrong" one)?

Original link:

- https://www.allspark.com/forums/threads/the-knock-off-transformers-thread.134/post-102038

 

[Kalidor]

Looks like it just grabs the first post it sees at the top of the thread. Not sure if anything can be done about that.

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[PrimalxConvoy]

Looks like it just grabs the first post it sees at the top of the thread. Not sure if anything can be done about that.

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Thanks. Is this an issue with the Allspark or with Discord then? I might be wrong but I (possibly) saw this incident happening when I shared Allspark linkswith other social media/websites.

 

[Haze Arquebus]

Pretty sure that's just how Discord is. You can wrap your links in pointed brackets (i.e. <link goes here>) and it'll disable the auto-thumbnail for that post if you'd rather have no thumbnail over an incorrect one.

 

[Kalidor]

It might be the xenforo software. When I shared the link here it also quoted the first post. It's probably designed to just grab a page summary rather than drill down into where on the page it happens to scroll down to.

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

It might be the xenforo software. When I shared the link here it also quoted the first post. It's probably designed to just grab a page summary rather than drill down into where on the page it happens to scroll down to.

Thanks. I've never seen this happen with other sites/links though. I feel that people believe I'm spamming with "random" links or I'm using the wrong link...

 

[Kalidor]

Show me a forum link that goes to a specific post in a thread and not the first post on the page and I'll see if I can figure out how to do that

 

[CoffeeHorse]

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[PrimalxConvoy]

Show me a forum link that goes to a specific post in a thread and not the first post on the page and I'll see if I can figure out how to do that

Hi, I've been trying to share the link below to both the "Navet Line" chat app and Discord. Although the link is fine, the (flavour text?) keeps showing the first post on they page, which might be putting people off clicking the link (as they think it's wrong).

This is the link.

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