So, whenever a message is linked on the outside internets, the profile picture of the topic starter (or messager), the first attached screenshot and a part of the message would show. Maybe different templates when something else is linked. https://andrejgajdos.com/how-to-create-a-link-preview/ guide how, it seems

it's an interesting idea, but i have a few points that i'd like some discussion first. what do we do about non-standard formatted text? that can't show up in the embeds. i guess it may be acceptable to have another parse path for babycode to create a preview for every post that will just be plain text but it'd look strange either way. i'm also not sure what to embed: the first post of a thread? linked post? there are permalinks to posts so it shouldn't be trouble to see if the requested url is a permalink or just the thread link.

the biggest problem is the sheer amount of STUFF for opengraph and twitter embeds to look somewhat ok. of course, once it's done it's done, but its a lot of boring work tbh.

and lastly, im personally not really a fan of embeds to begin with. but if peeps want this, i wont stand in their way