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digitalmars.D - [OT] The forum website should have more meta tags to allow other sites

reply WebFreak001 <janju007 web.de> writes:
For example right now if you post a forum link on some social 
media network or in some chat like skype or discord it will most 
of the time don't show any additional info to the link or just 
the meta description tag.

(For example on discord it looks like this right now: 
https://i.webfreak.org/ftDPWs)

It would be much cooler if it would show the post that the URL is 
pointing to with the title, content and author + profile picture. 
Google would probably also rank the forum pages higher then and 
they might even stop with suggesting golang over dlang (ok maybe 
that's a bit too unrealistic)

I don't know which specification discord is following but to 
support multiple providers the forum website should probably add 
a few head¹ tags for SEO and implement a few more formats for 
social networks/modern chat clients².

This would make it much easier to share forum urls without 
getting confused which url was what and it would improve the 
ranking on search engines.

¹: https://github.com/joshbuchea/HEAD lots of head tags, 
especially for SEO
²: https://github.com/joshbuchea/HEAD#social some formats to 
allow getting some information about the url
Aug 10 2016
parent Seb <seb wilzba.ch> writes:
On Wednesday, 10 August 2016 at 16:09:16 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:

 For example right now if you post a forum link on some social 
 media network or in some chat like skype or discord it will 
 most of the time don't show any additional info to the link or 
 just the meta description tag.

 (For example on discord it looks like this right now: 
 https://i.webfreak.org/ftDPWs)

 It would be much cooler if it would show the post that the URL 
 is pointing to with the title, content and author + profile 
 picture. Google would probably also rank the forum pages higher 
 then and they might even stop with suggesting golang over dlang 
 (ok maybe that's a bit too unrealistic)

 I don't know which specification discord is following but to 
 support multiple providers the forum website should probably 
 add a few head¹ tags for SEO and implement a few more formats 
 for social networks/modern chat clients².

 This would make it much easier to share forum urls without 
 getting confused which url was what and it would improve the 
 ranking on search engines.

 ¹: https://github.com/joshbuchea/HEAD lots of head tags, 
 especially for SEO
 ²: https://github.com/joshbuchea/HEAD#social some formats to 
 allow getting some information about the url


Very valid point ;-)
Issues/enhancement request for the forum should go to DFeed.
(if you send CyberShadow directly a PR, it should land live a lot 
faster).

https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed

BTW I made a similar enhancement request for the D Blog quite 
recently:

https://github.com/dlang/D-Blog-Theme/issues/19
Aug 10 2016