Alex Crichton (Feb 08 2026 at 01:28): Alex Crichton (Feb 08 2026 at 01:28):Personally I find link previews in Zulip to be annoying in that I rarely want them and a post with a lot of links ends up being very cluttered since at the end of the post is a long wall of previews. In Discord for example you can customize this per-link (e.g. link vs <link>) but I don't think you can do that on Zulip. On Zulip it looks like there's a organization-wide setting for this. I noticed recently that for rust-lang there's no link previews shown, leading me down this path.
What would others think about disabling link previews? Do others find it useful for example?
Alex Crichton (Feb 08 2026 at 01:30):An example of what I find is very cluttered is
Chris Fallin (Feb 08 2026 at 04:22):+1 to disabling this if we can
Till Schneidereit (Feb 08 2026 at 14:18):hmm, I personally do like the previews, but I can see how they can easily introduce a lot of noise.
I'll bring this up in the next TSC meeting, since it doesn't seem like a thing where I should just make a change using the Zulip admin powers vested in me ...
Alex Crichton (Feb 08 2026 at 14:39):It's a bummer this is an org level thing and not per message...
Till Schneidereit (Feb 08 2026 at 15:15):agreed, yeah. Or even a user-level setting on the receiving end; I think that'd be ideal
Dave Bakker (badeend) (Feb 08 2026 at 19:47):+1 for disabling. I find them distracting
Victor Adossi (Feb 09 2026 at 10:05):+1 for disabling
fitzgen (he/him) (Feb 09 2026 at 16:12):yeah +1 for disabling, when there are multiple previews especially it just becomes a huge amount of visual noise that overpowers the actual conversation
Ralph (Feb 09 2026 at 16:38):Disable; lots of code discussions link to multiple locations and BOY that's an explosion. If I wanna know, I can go.....
Till Schneidereit (Feb 10 2026 at 18:45):After discussing this in the TSC just now, I disabled previews
Alex Crichton (Feb 10 2026 at 18:46):Thanks!
Dave Bakker (badeend) (Feb 10 2026 at 18:47): Dave Bakker (badeend) (Feb 10 2026 at 18:48):Awesome :tada:
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