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sean
@swabbie.eth
i really don’t understand the priorities here. why did we get profile banners before a decent link preview? if i share a link with someone not on farcaster, they are much less likely to click it, much less join, if the preview looks like shit
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
What site has good link previews in your opinion?
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sean
@swabbie.eth
twitter / x and nearly all other social media, including bluesky. here’s a messages preview example to compare to the farcaster one in the op
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
On iMessage?
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sean
@swabbie.eth
yes
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
That’s Apple not opengraph. Nothing we can do unless they choose to make ours pretty. It’s literally propriertary. Our opengraph renders media and is better than theirs, eg Signal
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sean
@swabbie.eth
no, you have control of that preview. you don’t need a white background with image and text side-by-side, making both of them hard to read. 8 years ago i had the ability to clean up Apple messages previews, and that should still be the case today
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