Add Discourse previews for BigFix.me links

Discourse (the software that runs https://forum.bigfix.com/ ) will make automatic previews of some URLs pasted into posts.

This is done either through a OneBox Engine that defines how to create the preview, or by getting the standard OpenGraph or oEmbed data from the site.

It seems like any of these options may work, but it seems like OpenGraph might be the most beneficial.

If this is added to BigFix.me , it would tell Discourse and other sites how to display a preview that could contain the title and perhaps description automatically. In the case of relevance, it could use the image representation of the relevance as the image preview.


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Thanks James, great suggestion,
we’ll look into this proposal and evaluate.

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