Issues with social images on quarto.org 🤔 (maybe not specific though)

[mcanouil]

I don't know if it's really a bug or some kind of misconfiguration, but for both Twitter and OpenGraph cards, the image is not found or none are defined.

See for example https://twitter.com/MickaelCanouil/status/1584884666913345536.
EDIT: the search mechanism to find a preview image (or the propagation of it) seems to take longer than it usually does compared to when the image is set.

Also, there might be something wrong (or not clear at least) in the documentation: https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-tools.html#twitter-cards.

Option	Description
image	The path to a preview image for this content. By default, Quarto will use the image value from the site: metadata. If you provide an image, you may also optionally provide an image-width and image-height to improve the appearance of your Twitter Card. If image is not provided, Quarto will automatically attempt to locate a preview image. For more information, see Preview Images.

Here, the description talks about site:, is it really this option or is it website:?
It's a bit confusing because there is a site: option listed in the same table.

Option	Description
site	@username of website. Note that strings with special characters such as @ must be quoted in yaml.

If it's indeed website: and not site:, then the default image that should be taken for Twitter and OpenGraph cards should be the one in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-web/blob/4a665d2e5082a7e80a3bb566b3924673f1de7f45/_quarto.yml#L9-L11, but that's not the case.

[dragonstyle]

I think that is just wrong now - we used to look at the site wide image for the social metadata but we no longer do. We stopped doing this as we felt like the experience of using the same image for every page of a website wasn't good.

We really only use that image in feeds right now. I'll open and issue to track correcting the documentation on this, thanks for catching it.

[mcanouil]

Thanks for the answer.
I'll mark this as answered and follow on the issue.