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I dont know if I'm in the minority but I really dislike link previews the vast majority of the time. They take up too much space and offer to little value. In discord I often x out of the preview and I know lots of others who do too.

Maybe on some sites it's fine but I feel like link previews need more modularity on size or something. Perbaps even configurable both host and client



You're not in the minority.

The information density of the preview has to match, if not exceed, that of the context in which it is provided. Most of the times it's a placeholder image with less text than the URL itself.




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