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Most attractive way to share game page, devlogs, community posts and developer profile for messaging applications.

A topic by LoveraSantiago created Sep 02, 2018 Views: 680 Replies: 4
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Good Morning

I would suggest a feature to share the itch io pages (game page, devlog posts, community posts, developer profile and etc) in a more interesting way than currently in messaging applications like whatsapp and telegram and in future other networks.

For small, beginners and indies developers whatsapp and telegram are also ways to publicize their respective games.

Today when sharing (game page, devlog post, community posts, developer profile and etc), this only appears as a shared link, it would be interesting that these pages could be shared with Rich Previews.

Which in my opinion would increase the interest of the people who receive the sharing link. For it would be visually more attractive than just a simple link.

The Itch.io main page when shared is displayed with Rich Previews.

I think the cost benefit is also interesting. Implementing this functionality is relatively simple. If you try to add the meta tags of the html page and in some cases make them dynamic. Or even allow the developer to configure as an option within the distribute menu near the custom widget section.

I am willing to help with this functionality if you wish.

A page that comments on the subject 

https://medium.com/@richardoosterhof/how-to-optimize-your-site-for-rich-previews...

A page to test the Rich Preview


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You mean like all creator profiles and games come with Twitter cards? Arguably it would be nice if there was OpenGraph metadata instead or in addition to that. Many services however, like Discord (or indeed Twitter itself), seem to read both. Do WhatsApp and Telegram need some other format?

You mean like all creator profiles and games come with Twitter cards? 

It would be nice.

Do WhatsApp and Telegram need some other format?

I looked at the tags "meta" of a devlog page.

I did not know, I just saw now.
Plenty of them are present.

The funny thing is that on a test at http://test.richpreview.com/ the results appear perfectly. However as I showed in the image of the previous post in whatsapp does not work correctly, so I thought that this functionality that I suggested was not present.

As a result, this site displays the following:


Another assumption according to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19778620/provide-an-image-for-whatsapp-link-... might be the image dimensions or the file size.

I am willing to help in whatever it takes.

Tested on Telegram works perfectly.

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Do directly link to the game's page work okay, or is it missing as well? (Sorry I don't have whatsapp at hand to test)

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