URL previews have limited information about matrix.to HOT 11 CLOSED

Only way around this would be to get rid of the privacy and server-fetch data which is undesirable

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True, matrix.to will never be able to make the riot side of this happy with that restriction. The preview could at least be helpful though: "matrix.to - join a room" or something that describes what the site does instead of just repeating the title.

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I think this is pretty important - if we want to share links out of band then they need to not look... weird.

Presumably we can inspect the URL to provide a little bit of context as to whether this is a permalink to a room, a message/event in a room, a user or a community. Perhaps something like:

• Permalink to a room on matrix.org
• Permalink to a message on matrix.org
• Permalink to Matrix user @ tom:lant.uk
• Permalink to Matrix community +coolstuff:matrix.org

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The problem is that URL previews generally use a meta header, and they can't be easily calculated given most parers grep the content without running javascript.

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So we can't do that because the server doesn't see the actual thing that's being linked to to generate the meta header

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(there isn't actually a server component to matrix.to)

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Aaaaaaaand matrix.to page content is generated clientside. Boo!

Presumably we could make a server-generated matrix.to server that stuffs a more useful summary into the meta header?

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By which I mean something which honours the exact same URL scheme but generates the dynamic bits serverside rather than clientside

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We could but a key point of matrix.to is that it doesn't leak your desire to join a room to anyone/any entity. It doesn't even appear in http logs because its after a #

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I'm going to add open graph details to matrix.to that give a little more info about what a matrix.to link is. Unfortunately it seems there is no way to maintain privacy and provide better link previews.

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Duplicate of #207 -> #180

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