Most people: The long Thanksgiving weekend is a time to relax, eat, & enjoy time with family.

Me: That all sounds great, but maybe I should migrate my site to a new host & new CDN during that time too! And completely change the build process! 😂

Completely by accident, my last test worked… but the rules weren’t right. Now I should be blocking metadata for only status posts when syndicated. 🎉

After a lot of trial and error, I think I have my settings correct so that upon syndication, this post will include a link, but won’t include an image or metadata… 🤞

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 So far today I’ve baked pies, enjoyed a delicious lunch with family, and played piano duets with my sister. And shopped (online). What’s next? 🤔

I’m disabling original post link inclusion on my syndicated posts for now… I strongly prefer to include the link back to my original post long term, but until I figure out how to disable link previews, it’s making for a poor reader experience.

That being said, if anyone has a recommendation of how to block link previews on social media only, for a Hugo site hosted on the DigitalOcean app platform, I’d love the input!