Every link to a web page that has OpenGraph or oEmbed fields on the page will now be posted as a oneboxed link. We used to do this only for a narrow list of whitelisted websites — now we do it for all websites by default.
So any “bare” links you post should be prettified and oneboxed, if they can be, like so:
If you’re not sure why a link didn’t onebox, it probably does not have OpenGraph or oEmbed fields in it. You can use the Iframely URL Debugger - Open Graph, Twitter Cards, oEmbed checker to verify or view source on the page if you are just that god damned hard core™.
May I ask a question? Let me see if I can word this…
My question is about copyright. I understand that one can post a small bit of something without violating copyright, right? So I assume that the oneboxes here don’t violate copyright.
Just now I posted this link: https://goo.gl/images/24ZqEi in another thread [here, if anyone is wondering]. I actually wanted to post a link to only the largest photo that you’ll see if you click that google link. But it didn’t want to just stay as a link–it would have posted the actual photo. BUT I didn’t know if I had the right to post the photo on the bbs! Any advice?
(Having the photo rather than just posting the link would have been more dramatic and would have made my point better, but again, I didn’t know if I had the right to do that.)
Unlikely, iframely will synthesize missing info. View source and see if the necessary fields are there. Checking the relevant tabs it … does seem valid though.
@zogstrip can have a look at any ones that should work tomorrow so keep the examples coming.
Any chance for a not-so-technical link about what onebox is, and why one would use it? My searching gets me lots of telephony links.
I don’t relate to those concerns at all. Working against plagiarism and forgery I can understand. But in an ecosystem of hyperlinked media, it seems that the whole point is that people experience it. If you require centralized control of your media, then why put it on the internet? That’s not what it’s for.
