Why don’t all URLs unfurl? @Alexanderr

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Most links posted to this forum “unfurl” into rich previews that contain title, description, image, and favicon:


An example of an unfurled link. It shows up as a preview box and not a regular URL.

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Some links don’t unfurl. Like these:



Why don’t they unfurl? How come the 2nd link shows its destination’s page’s title and the 1st one shows the address?

Programmercels can you guys post answers in this thread for webmasters and web developers who want their sites’ URLs to unfurl in forum posts?

@Alexanderr @Lorsss @tyronelite @Rift @PapiMew @Kingkellz @her @Gargantuan Unfurling is super-important. For fear of IP-grabbers, forum members avoid clicking links that don’t have previews. Are there any procedures web developers can do to ensure that URLs to their pages unfurl correctly?
 
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An example of a reaction that shows the importance of link previews:

What the actual fuck is that? :hnghn:

In that post, a member conveys a strong aversion to a link that has no preview.
 
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Just click it lol, the links right there
 
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Check that in ACP > Options > Messages that "Unfurl URL to a rich preview automatically" is checked.

Make sure that your users put URLs on a separate line - URLs that are on the same line as other text won't unfurl.

Do note that there are some URLs that won't unfurl for various reasons. You can test any URLs to see if they will unfurl or not in ACP > Tools > Test URL unfurling.
 
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Do note that there are some URLs that won't unfurl for various reasons.

This is what I’d like to be informed about in more detail. What’re the various reasons?
 
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Are you on iOS?
 
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It’s attempting to unfurl, might be a delay in the cache or a problem on the servers side, idk. Fuck xenforo this site should be a wordpress with an IRC server
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Alexxander HAmiltttton , Aleeexander Hamilton @Alexanderr :lul:
 
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