Fixed Unfurl URL to a rich preview

au lait

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Affected version
2.1
"Unfurl URL to a rich preview" dont work with
 
That's because the title tag on that page appears more than 100KiB into the HTML source... a lot more - there's over 300KiB of content before the title tag...
 
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We’ve actually implemented some improvements here so we should find now that most links unfurl:


Or not. Let me move this back. It’s possible we’ve not rolled those changes out yet...
 
The changes haven't been rolled out yet, but the system should resolve it. If it doesn't, it generally won't be something we'd make any further changes for. Note that some sites (Amazon most specifically) doesn't even output og meta tags when we request it -- it looks like they change their behavior based on either the IP or user agent -- so we can't really do anything to get additional metadata from those situations.
 
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