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We should use Matrix Live thumbnails for TWIM opengraph preview images.
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Description
Social posts get *way* more traction if they come with good preview images.
For many years (me/oddvar/benp era) we handpicked eye-catching opengraph images for every blog post - especially for TWIM, where it would either be the Matrix Live thumbnail or the prettiest attachment from the blog post itself.
At some point (around the zola rewrite) this got lost, and now every single page on the matrix blog seems to spawn a generic boring [matrix] logo as its social graph image.
Please can we go back to at least using the handpicked Matrix Live thumbnail as the opengraph card for TWIM? As it's crazy that we take the time to build nice title cards and thumbnails for Matrix Live... but then don't use them in the socials for it.
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Research direction
The issue names no files or tests; start by locating the TWIM page generation and the code that supplies OpenGraph images after the Zola rewrite. Verify how Matrix Live thumbnails are associated with TWIM posts, then confirm that the generated social preview uses the handpicked thumbnail instead of the generic Matrix logo.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 40/100