Public link previews - video and sharable folders

[andzejsp]

I like the app, very very well polished. Great design.

What im missing is when you share a file lets say image, in matrix chat, you get link preview of the image .. a thumbnail. but when you share a video there is no preview, just a download link to .mp4 file.

It would be nice to have a video thumbnail when we post a link to the video file.

Also it would be cool to be able to share a folder but with write access, anybody that has link can drop files in, then you just close the acces when it expires or when you shut it off or folder max space limit is reached or something. This would be cool, atm i have to use nextcloud but nexcloud have garbage link previews.

[diced]

Video thumbnails should work when you have the thumbnails feature on. As far as I know video embeds work in discord which just use the opengraph tags (a standard for SEO and "embeds" ig) so I can't do anything if it doesn't work on other apps. the short answer is that they probably don't support the tags fully, if i'm wrong please let me know, i'll be happy to figure out a fix later.

Also it would be cool to be able to share a folder but with write access, anybody that has link can drop files in, then you just close the acces when it expires or when you shut it off or folder max space limit is reached or something. This would be cool, atm i have to use nextcloud but nexcloud have garbage link previews.

Good idea, make a new comment on the v4 discussion.