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Changing The Site Imagery

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James Gray
James Gray
Sr Program Manager, Algolia DocSearch

By now I have sent this site to different people over slack and I keep seeing this being shown in my message:

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I've never thought about this before but I wanted to update three things that I'm seeing

  • the little image
  • the blurb of text that is shown
  • the big image

At this point I asked myself, "Where are these pieces of information even coming from?" So I set out to learn more and found this write up: https://medium.com/slack-developer-blog/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-unfurling-but-were-afraid-to-ask-or-how-to-make-your-e64b4bb9254. I quickly learned a few things:

  • It's called "unfurling"
  • There are meta tags detailing what is being shown

Seeing that my source of knowledge was now seven years old and more specifically, I wanted to know exactly how Slack was unfurling my link, I found this: https://api.slack.com/reference/messaging/link-unfurling, which went into more detail about what was happening in Slack. Funny enough, that article then included an image from the previous article above. Must have been a good one.

That's all for today...