Stream: general

Topic: previews of websites

view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin (Sep 19 2024 at 21:10):

Can we please turn off previews of website? I find them a bit noisy. Here's how: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/help/image-video-and-website-previews#configure-whether-website-previews-are-shown

Image, video and website previews | Zulip help center
Zulip displays previews of images, videos and websites in your message feed. To avoid disrupting the flow of conversation, these previews are small. You can configure how animated images are previewed, and organization administrators can also disable previews altogether. | In the desktop and web apps, you can configure previews of animated images to always show the animation, show it when you hover over the image with your mouse, or not show it at all. You can always see the animated image by opening it in the image viewer.

view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin (Sep 19 2024 at 22:24):

Whoops, I meant to link to the generic documentation: https://zulip.com/help/image-video-and-website-previews

Image, video and website previews | Zulip help center
Zulip displays previews of images, videos and websites in your message feed. To avoid disrupting the flow of conversation, these previews are small. You can configure how animated images are previewed, and organization administrators can also disable previews altogether. | In the desktop and web apps, you can configure previews of animated images to always show the animation, show it when you hover over the image with your mouse, or not show it at all. You can always see the animated image by opening it in the image viewer.

view this post on Zulip Jerod Santo (Sep 19 2024 at 22:49):

I prefer them, at least for our episodes. Is it something we can do by domain or can you turn them off personally?

view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin (Sep 20 2024 at 00:14):

I don't see a way to turn them off personally. No worries. If you like 'em, keep 'em!

I'll be looking forward to this: Remove preview for a specific URL in a message #16231

Remove preview for a specific URL in a message by hashirsarwar · Pull Request #16231 · zulip/zulip
The pull request adds the support to allow a user to remove previews for any URLs in editable messages. Note: This is based on @punchagan's old PR #12816 with some required updates. GIF:

view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin (Sep 20 2024 at 00:18):

Ah, and this one: Add display setting for hiding/unhiding link previews by default #21767

Add display setting for hiding/unhiding link previews by default · Issue #21767 · zulip/zulip
Some users generally want link previews, while others generally prefer not to see them. We should therefore make it possible to control this as a display setting. Setting location: Settings > Displ...

view this post on Zulip Jerod Santo (Sep 25 2024 at 13:24):

Now that I'm setting up @Logbot to post about new episodes, I'll just have it include episode summaries in the text of those messages, which means we can turn link previews off. I do think they're ugly/distracting often.

Ultimately, that personal setting is where it's at though :100:

view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin (Sep 25 2024 at 22:52):

Great solution!

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