Link previewing?

[jD91mZM2]

Should there be link previewing in the client? Should it always preview (well, maybe optional?) or using some command or button or whatever? Because remember a site could be logging IPs, so if we want it to always preview we'd need the server to act as a VPN.

[ttofis]

Link previewing? That's a discussion about your client directly. So, by link previewing you mean cards that get formed from meta tags?

[jD91mZM2]

By link previewing I mean showing images when you direct link them, or if it's not an image either nothing or the title.

[ttofis]

Can ncurses even do that? I mean show images?

[jD91mZM2]

FYI: The client is not limited to cursive. Even though, I suspect Cursive/ncurses does not strip the escape character, so it might be possible to show colors.

termplay

[ttofis]

Yeah, I say too much trouble, but if you want to do it, do it!

[tbodt]

how about implement it, enable by default, have a switch to turn it off?

[Mnpn]

^ An option for it should definitely exist.

[jD91mZM2]

Nice! But we should still have the server be some sort of proxy for the links, right? For safety:tm:?

[ttofis]

Wut no? What safety man? Its just link previewing, come on.

[jD91mZM2]

But if you don't want to click that link? It can get your IP!

[tbodt]

that can be added later...

[jD91mZM2]

Link previewing as a whole or server proxy around it?

[ttofis]

Obviously a client feature, but man, who does link previewing?? I only see stuff like this but in the form of cards like Twitter and even Discord. Meta's are what get displayed. I say make cards instead with this: http://ogp.me/

[jD91mZM2]

In other words this is a huge "No"?