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So it used to be that when I would announce the podcast at facebook, the new logo would show up:

Now it doesn't show up.

It seems to make a huge difference at facebook. I thought the pig-in-a-day podcast could have done really good at facebook - but facebook is sorta picture centric.

And now, the next podcast is really good too. But I don't want to post it until the facebook problem is fixed.

Anybody have any ideas on how things got broken?

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Fscebook normally just grap the 1st pic it see on a page that you link so if you put that image higher up on the page or make it the only image on the page it might work?
I have never seen the facebook announcement. Can you provide a link to it.

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http://www.facebook.com/PaulWheatonFans

It used to be that I would post and it would say "I found 12 pics - which one is the thumbnail you wanna use?" Now it says there are 3 pics and none of them are the podcast logo.

I'm trying to find examples, but .... WTF - a bunch of podcasts aren't even showing up. ??

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.[.img] https://permies.com/t/logo.png .[./.img]

It doesn't seem to regonise the .[.img] picture.[./img] tag. to facebook its just text.
so I would just use a 2 links.
a regular https://permies.com/t/logo.png for facebook and
a .[.img] https://permies.com/t/logo.png .[./img] for inline display on permies.com

It could also be the .png format, try using jpg/jpeg/bmp/svg

When I go to https://permies.com/t/20358/podcast/Podcast-Review-Pig-Day and inspect the picture/logo in my browser it shows up as just a regular <img>...</img> tag.
However based on what facebook is showing .[.img] https://permies.com/t/logo.png .[./.img] vs <img>...logo.png</img> they are doing a deeper inspection.

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I just tested this and I think it works:

Use the link from the post itself, https://permies.com/forums/posts/list/20438#169974 (right-click the tiny page symbol next to the date at the top of the post), and then it let's you choose a photo from that post, in addition to photos from the main site.

I recently noticed that posting a link to a thread no longer let's you choose photos from within that thread. Choosing just the one post in a thread is a bit awkward, but I think it will still work.

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Except fo following a link to a specific post in the poster's listing or to the latest post of a thread, how do we get a link to specific post? Is there a way?

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Right-click the tiny page symbol next to the date at the top of the post and choose Copy link address.

Here's a pic of the page symbol for the URL.

post-URL-symbol-image.png

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Wow! that was a well hidden feature.

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Adrien Lapointe wrote:Except fo following a link to a specific post in the poster's listing or to the latest post of a thread, how do we get a link to specific post? Is there a way?

I dont quite understand what your question is.

But if you scroll through a thread/post you will see something that is similar to "posted Today 21:52:21" right across from the poster name if you right-click on it it will give you a specific link.
and every person who replied will have a different one.

Each link will show you the entire thread at most it will scroll you 1/2 way down the page/thread, but you can still scroll up or down to see the rest

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Seems like FB is creating more problems.

Any embedded code such as will show up on the link preview. Anybody knows how to get around this new problem?

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I don't have a Facebook account. Last time I helped Paul with something similar, I created a dummy account, the credentials for which I no longer remember. Adrien/Paul, there's a way all of this can be tracked down via a Facebook provided webpage but that requires a Facebook account. I'll send you more details about this in a mail so that we can figure out what's going on.

I've read about this kind of thing at the checkout counter. That's where I met this tiny ad:

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