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Re:Examples of Great URL Design (2023) by namrog84 on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @10:03AM (#41246207)
I dont know if I'm in the minority but I really dislike link previews the vast majority of the time. They take up too much space and offer to little value. In discord I often x out of the preview and I know lots of others who do too.

Maybe on some sites it's fine but I feel like link previews need more modularity on size or something. Perbaps even configurable both host and client

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Re:Examples of Great URL Design (2023) by xyzzy_plugh on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @10:47AM (#41246744)
You're not in the minority.

The information density of the preview has to match, if not exceed, that of the context in which it is provided. Most of the times it's a placeholder image with less text than the URL itself.

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