element-hq / element-hq/element-web

Load URL Previews in the background

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A-Timeline A-URL-Previews O-Frequent S-Minor T-Enhancement
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Description

### Your use case

Opening a room with messages containing a URL is a pain since it takes a while until the URL preview was gathered by the homeserver. This moves all messages around a lot.
_matrix.org_ homeserver might be fast but there are a lot more slower homeservers out there.

Issue could be solved if the preview was generated in the background, right when the messages comes in and not just when a user opens the room.

### Have you considered any alternatives?

Wait a couple of seconds until message jumping has ended.

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