As you may know I am flowing all my links through a Slack group. If you want to receive my links that way, you can request an invite following the instructions on this page (scroll to the end). #
It's all working well except it's hard to predict when Slack will be able to scrape metadata from the post to present it with an image, title and description. #
I find if I paste a link to one of the pieces hours or days after it initially appeared, then Slack finds the metadata. But if I post the link immediately after the piece is posted, it doesn't. I know the metadata is there, Twitter and Facebook both pick it up properly.#
I tried searching for any techniques to work with this, does Slack require some kind of ping? Is there a cache that only updates so often? Is it possible there's some kind of bug in here? I'm anxious to get this working, so any help would be appreciated.#
You can message me on Twitter at @davewiner, or send email to dave@smallpicture.com. #