Imagine Twitter or Facebook without link preview, it's much harder to use and overall reduces the change I'll click on a link. Do you think only Twitter and Facebook should be allowed publish previews?
Half the time the link preview picks the wrong picture and sometimes even the quote. Twitter and Facebook would both be improved by disabling it. Hell, it might even stop people from thinking they need a hero image for their 2 paragraph medium shitpost.
I'd place that blame towards website owners. Both Facebook and Twitter are pretty open where they read that info from, and an owner can pretty easily pass those fields (it's just some <meta> tags in the <head> element).
So, I should have to include twitter specific meta tags even though I personally don't care about twitter? Maybe twitter should make it clear which tags they read? Maybe it's SEO bullshit I don't care about? Maybe even even the OG: tags don't work all the time and result in dumb previews?
If you don't want to fill them out, don't... Filling them out lets you customize your link preview on twitter. If you don't care about Twitter, why would this affect you at all?
That's exactly what I'm saying. Either I care about what that person thinks might interest me or I don't. The link preview abstract is shit anyway. Does the site title and the 2 sentence abstract really sway you? If someone wants to send traffic my way, writing an interesting abstract is not too much to ask.
>it's much harder to use and overall reduces the change I'll click on a link
Maybe you should re-evaluate who you follow on twitter? I frankly could care less about facebook.
>Do you think only Twitter and Facebook should be allowed publish previews?
I think previews are worthless regardless, I thought I made that clear. Either you care about me linking it to you or you do not.
*EDIT: And just for fun, here is the link preview stuff from my latest skype call with my brother: https://imgur.com/a/yO5OP36
Imagine Twitter or Facebook without link preview, it's much harder to use and overall reduces the change I'll click on a link. Do you think only Twitter and Facebook should be allowed publish previews?