[OT] The forum website should have more meta tags to allow other sites to embed it

WebFreak001 via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Aug 10 09:09:16 PDT 2016


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


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