Re: Facebook shows Topic permalink, and not post / reply content...

Posted by mywaytoo on Nov 21, 2011; 8:39pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Facebook-shows-Topic-permalink-and-not-post-reply-content-tp6908386p7017880.html

Harvey... It seems to me that FB are doing the logical thing...

I linked to  http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/middle-east-north-africa/egypt ... which has the page name of 'Egypt travel advice'.

FB linked to 'Egypt travel advice', ie. my link as above, whilst also displaying a link to the Home page of that website (Don't know why they displayed the Home page...).

So far this is what happens with my Nabble forum reply...
http://nabble-support.1.n2.nabble.com/Facebook-shows-Topic-permalink-and-not-post-reply-content-tp6908386p6983870.html

The FB text appears to be from the meta name description given in their source code... The source code for this page shows 2 meta names... "DC.description" and "description", which both have the same content...

The Nabble text is from the content of the original text... Oh... I was testing that in case it was coming from the title or meta tags... I was hoping that FB shuffle through any subsequent changes, but I cannot rely on this, and likely they don't anyway, or do they??? Like people/websites/forums do with our profile photos? I'll check this now.

I have posted a question about this on FB's page... but I doubt that they will even get to see it along with all the other questions... and spam...

EDIT: The description is coming from my Nabble meta tag description on the original post, labelled TESTING DESCRIPTION... https://www.facebook.com/pages/knit4dolls/122061844540680

Ooooh... so is the title / page name, labelled TESTING TITLE...

So Nabble's data isn't from the same places as my other link...

EDIT AGAIN: IMO Nabble must bring back the meta tags for replies to original posts...