Any way to disable the link preview?

jvantslot · June 29, 2023, 3:59pm

In our collective there are links within paragraphs that link to other collective documents. When using simple links or link picker the link displays as the URL or the URL with a preview, breaking up the flow of the paragraph. Is there a way to control this behavior and have a link to a Collective page display as just a normal link text?

Uatschitchun · July 27, 2023, 12:57pm

Would like to know that, too!

I would like to create a wiki like collective with links to articles in sub-pages. So the link preview or the URL is disturbing

ros · July 29, 2023, 3:39pm

i am interested too

meonkeys · July 29, 2023, 4:58pm

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re: privacy … Currently there is a config option to prevent the server from trying to fetch an opengraph preview:

github.com/nextcloud/text

URL Preview is a Privacy Leak (and a major waste of screen space in most cases)

opened 07:34PM - 19 Dec 22 UTC

closed 11:36AM - 24 Feb 23 UTC

yuv

bug

**Describe the bug** When user enters a URL into a Markdown file, a preview is …automatically fetched and displayed under the URL. **To Reproduce** Steps to reproduce the behavior: 1. Go to files section 2. Create new text file 3. name it something.md 4. type in some text and a URL 5. press enter after the URL 6. watch your screen being used to display something you do not want/need to see **Expected behavior** - my preference: leave my text alone - optional: have a global setting (per server instance) disabled by default, to show URL previews. - nicer optional: have a per-user setting, still disabled by default - kind of good: a per-document setting, such as interpreted meta-data at the start of the document as used by a few smart editors to set things like tab widht. still disabled by default - wizard: automatically disable when on metered/slow bandwidth. But still, disabled by default **Client details:** - OS: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - Browser: Firefox - Version: 107 - Device: desktop **Text app version:** 3.6.0 **Operating system:** Ubuntu 22.04 **Web server:** nginx **Database:** MariaDB 10.5.18 **PHP version:** 8.1.13 **Nextcloud version:** 25.0.2

re: UI/UX … Unfortunately, the paragraph flow is still broken up:

github.com/nextcloud/text

Prevent loading spinner for link preview when `reference_opengraph` is false

opened 11:30AM - 24 Feb 23 UTC

closed 06:03PM - 04 May 23 UTC

max-nextcloud

bug 1. to develop design: papercut javascript php ux 25 feedback

**Describe the bug** It's possible to turn off the link preview by setting `ref…erence_opengraph` to false. See https://github.com/nextcloud/text/issues/3588#issuecomment-1358355490. When this is done text will still attempt to load link previews leading to an endless loading spinner. **To Reproduce** Steps to reproduce the behavior: 1. Set `reference_opengraph` to false in your server config. 2. Open a text file and insert a link. 3. See the spinning wheel that will never stop. **Expected behavior** If link preview is turned off text should neither attempt to fetch it nor include a loading spinner.

ernolf · July 29, 2023, 7:49pm

Allways then, when the text ends with the link, the preview is visable.
Simply hitting enter, so your cursor is under the preview and delete the preview backwards wil remove the preview but only as long as you are in edit mode, The preview will come back when editing is finished.
To prevent this behavior, simply continue with text behind the link, as soon as there is a space with folowing text, the preview disapears (and doesn’t come back).
So this would do the trick:

https://beautifull.link/ .

as you can see, there is a space after the link and then a single dot. That is enough, to keep the preview away.

If you want to edit your markdown syntax, like [text](link) instead of <link>, you have to use Plain text editor - files_texteditor in combination with Markdown Editor - files_markdown

Therefor you must exit the Colectives App, go to your Collectives Folder in the files App and choose . After that you have to open the text app again, which then asks whether you want to use the saved or the old version. Then you select the right version, that is the one you just edited with the plaintext editor.
Unfortunately plaintext editor doesn’t handle multibyte characters like emojis properly. So they all break, strange characters appear in their place, which then have to be “repaired” after each external processing. Yes, it’s really awful!

Hope this helps.
much luck!

jvantslot · August 2, 2023, 6:46pm

Excellent, thank you!

caos30 · August 4, 2023, 1:28am

For me is enough (probably wonderful) the trick of the final dot !! So, in this way i can control when disable de preview generation depending of the context.
Thanks!! .