That makes sense. And I think you are right, it looks like Reddit is
also paying attention to og:image [1].
The reason JFrog gets chosen is because its actual image size is huge
(but it comes with the size CSS attributes to make it look like a normal
size.)
So I think the solution is:
1. create a even bigger Jenkins image and link it from the template
(but make it invisible to the browser.)
2. install opengraph meta tag plugin [2] to Drupal so that blog posts
can choose images to go out as og:image.
[1]
https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/scraper.py[2]
http://drupal.org/project/opengraph_metaOn 09/21/2012 04:28 PM, Bruno P. Kinoshita wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I recently worked on a web site with a requirement of displaying the right image on FaceBook. When you share a page in facebook, it tries to get the website image from the following html meta tag:
>
> <meta property="og:image" content="http://<url>/images/icon-facebook.gif"; />
>
> There are other meta tags used too (check Open Graph [1] for more), like:
>
>
> <meta property="og:title" content="bla bla" />
> <meta property="og:site_name" content="bla bla bla" />
>
> I think there are other meta tags that were (or still are) used too, but these seem to work.
>
> If these tags are not available, FB tries to get some images available in the page, but sometimes it misses one or two images. I shared www.reddit.com/r/jenkinsci, and although I could select different images, the Jenkins logo wasn't available.
>
>
> I took a look at a subreddit where I'm moderator to see if there was something in the settings, but couldn't find anything to include these meta tags.
>
>
> So here's a (dirty) trick for changing the image that is displayed on Facebook:
>
>
> - Go to FaceBook and paste
http://www.jenkins-ci.org (or a web site with image/tags that you want to display)
>
> - Wait for FaceBook to load the images from the website and select the butler headshot (or one of your preference)
>
> - Delete the web site address and now paste the right content
> - Post it
>
>
> You can also create a web page somewhere with the right OpenGraph tags for displaying the description/content/url etc, pointing to the post in r/jenkinsci. It's dirty and ugly, but it works :-/
>
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> [1]
http://ogp.me/>
> Bruno P. Kinoshita
>
http://kinoshita.eti.br>
http://tupilabs.com>
>
>>________________________________
>> From: Lisa Wells <
[hidden email]>
>>To:
[hidden email]
>>Cc: Bruno P. Kinoshita <
[hidden email]>
>>Sent: Friday, 21 September 2012 7:16 PM
>>Subject: Re:
http://www.reddit.com/r/jenkinsci/>>
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>>The JFrog image appears to come up whenever jenkins-ci.org is cited. I posted this link and it still has the JFrog image:
>>
http://jenkins-ci.org/content/come-join-jenkins-user-conference-san-francisco-september-30th>>
>>Maybe Reddit is pulling from the sponsor logos on the blog page?
>>L
>>
>>
>>On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Kohsuke Kawaguchi <
[hidden email]> wrote:
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>>On 09/21/2012 01:11 PM, Bruno P. Kinoshita wrote:
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>>>Hi Lisa! Great idea.
>>>>
>>>>+1 to using reddit, and +1 to adding a section on the jenkins-ci.org with r/jenkinsci posts
>>>>
>>>
> I have a suspicion that rtyler had set up some kind of automatic reddit posting from @jenkinsci. I'm how he did it.
>>>
>>>The other thing I noticed is that posts like [1] gets JFrog logo as the image. I'm a fan of what they do and all, but is there any way we can convince Reddit to pick up a Jenkins logo as the default image?
>>>
>>>
>>>[1]
http://www.reddit.com/r/jenkinsci/comments/yy0vv/volunteers_needed_for_juc_sf/>>>--
>>>Kohsuke Kawaguchi | CloudBees, Inc. |
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