[newman8r]

Your service seems pretty useful in the context of e-books (which seems like your primary market based on your website) - I'm not sure why the medium article starts off with wikipedia as an example, seems like a weaker use case (just my opinion though, I may be wrong)

What happens when the content of the wikipedia article changes substantially - where will it lead to, or will it show a warning that the target content has changed?

seems interesting though

[bukio]

Thanks for good feedback. Wikipedia keeps versions on its content so that the URL will be still valid, leading to old version of the article that was what it was at the time of quote. The platform doesn't work on blogs where no versioned data is kept.

[newman8r]

that seems like a reasonable solution. I'd like to be able to do this in slack conversations - I haven't used slack in a while, but the auto-generated descriptions were always a distraction, would be nice to select the text I want for the link preview.

[bukio]

I agree. So, I made link preview from buk.io platform the quote itself. Here is one example. Try to put it in slack, facebook or twitter to see how it looks. https://buk.io/@ea1149/5/9704~9850

[newman8r]

I signed up and gave the wikipedia feature a try, it works, but is there a way to link to any website of my choosing, or is it limited to wikipedia/books?

[bukio]

Thank you for your trying out the service. We may be able to wrap around the other sites only if we know the details of the system e.g. how it keeps versions and so on. Otherwise, chrome plugin like tool is necessary. The goal of the platform is to use just web browser and web URL scheme so that plugin approach is in the back burner yet. Please try out searching for public domain books as well. We started the service with Wikipedia and Gutenberg project ebooks so that users may cite from then. Thank you again.