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A little ironic: I tried to share this article on the #offbeat Slack channel at my work, but the automatic preview image Slack generated for it (from the top c
by murftown 9y ago
A little ironic: I tried to share this article on the #offbeat Slack channel at my work, but the automatic preview image Slack generated for it (from the top cover image of the article, which you can't really see most of, unless you view the image separately) is a (pretty NSFW) fake front-of-the-box for a "We-Vibe" IoT vibrator: "We can see how kinky you are". Not what I was planning to share with my coworkers. I'd recommend the author to change the cover image, or at least feature the whole image prominently front-and-center if that's really what they want to do, so people don't accidentally share it inappropriately like I did.
Good article though, and I definitely agree that these issues with IoT devices should be made more prominent.
- teekert 9y agoHaha, same on FB, tried to see how to change it, in the end just went for the vibrator image without any text around it (because it is cropped of). Living on the edge.
- Bartweiss 9y agoI sort of wish Slack had a way to disable the preview image feature; I've run into this several times where a reasonable, work-safe article was processed into a picture not-so-suitable for Slack. It mostly seems to be cases like this one, where the first image is concealed or contextualized in the article but treated like a normal header image by Slack. I think one that got me worst was a piece responding to someone else's content. Slack simply pulled the quoted text and picture at the top - which looked like sharing the original article, instead of a response to it.
- scott_karana 9y agoAn X shows up next to the preview/unfold when hovering, and allows you to delete the preview, at least in the full desktop app.