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Asked: 2026-05-23T21:59:15+00:00

I believe this is a problem with my forum board site. If I’m trying

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I believe this is a problem with my forum board site.

If I’m trying to share a link from my forum board to my site, the link info/link thumbnail looks weird. No page title, no description, no thumbnail-nothing at all, only bad-looking link. Here’s an screenshot:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/TEUg8.png

That’s not the way it’s supposed to show, right? Oddly, if I share a link from my main homepage (not from the forum board), it will display correctly. Like this one:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/2ekL3.png

The most weird thing is that only happens in my forum board. It’s perfectly normal on my main site. Why does this happen? I once read meta tags and meta description affect this stuff, but my meta tags and meta description are fine…

EDIT:
I’ve just remembered. A few months ago (about early 2011) there’s nothing wrong with my forum boards (the description appears properly). It’s only recently (about March 2011) it starts to behave weirdly.

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  1. Editorial Team

    FB’s share mechanism pulls a lot of data from your meta tags. Make sure they’re set right, e.g.,

    <meta name="description" content="your_site_description_here">

    FB also follows the opengraph protocol, so you can use that to set the images, etc that show up on the share window. (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/), ex:

    <meta property="og:image" content="/your/site/image.jpg">

    would make whatever image is at your/site/image.jpg show up when you hit the share button for that page.

    EDIT:

    On further investigation, the FB linter shows that your site returns a 403 forbidden, which means that it’s filtering out FB’s spider for not being in an approved IP list, or something similar. This URL may contain some helpful info: (http://www.invisionmodding.com/topic/47252-how-to-let-facebook-spider-to-visite-my-forum/)

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