Unfurl - domain exceptions (blacklist)

[cwe]

I enjoy the XF unfurl feature for the most part. External links usually look nice in posts when it works. External links look fine (raw URL) when it doesn't.

However, there is one domain that vexes me terribly - msn.com. All links to news items on msn.com "unfurl" to a simple link with "MSN" as the anchor text. Those links look horrible in the forum and are less informative than having the actual URL displayed.

I would absolutely love it if the XF ACP allowed us to define a list of domains that should be ignored by the unfurl feature so I could add msn.com to the list and never have to manually edit another post (to set unfurl="false" for msn.com links).

 

[briansol]

testing as i've never seen this:

MSN

www.msn.com

Yup, looks bad

Seems to be that the body is all js-driven from react or angular/next/whateverjs so there's not actually any content available to the ping to get the data.

perhaps the unfurl script could account for this somehow instead of a manual blacklist (although, that could be a nice to have for other use cases)

 

[Old Nick]

Those links look horrible in the forum

So horrible…

 

[KensonPlays]

That would be nice, I agree. Upvoted.