Piefed now generates human-readable post URLs instead of those random ID strings. This issue has been around on Lemmy for ages with no real progress from core devs. At this point, you have to wonder what the Lemmy dev team is focusing on.
Piefed now generates human-readable post URLs instead of those random ID strings. This issue has been around on Lemmy for ages with no real progress from core devs. At this point, you have to wonder what the Lemmy dev team is focusing on.
It’s still helpful for messages. The social share/thumbnail isn’t always available
A user is more likely to click on
https://unfamiliar.site/c/cats/192837/my-cat-napping-in-the-suncompared to
https://unfamiliar.site/post/192837I’m not saying that this should take priority over all the other things the developers are doing, but I’d still like to see it implemented at some point
Most places that matter (popular chat apps, text apps, social media) use Open Graph protocol to provide a preview of the link that’s been sent. I don’t see the issue here. Its on the site operator to implement Open Graph and it works fine on Lemmy.