feat(meta): give the site a real social preview - #130
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This site shipped no og:image, so every link to it — Telegram, Slack, a DM — rendered as a blank grey rectangle. Adds the Next file-convention card (1200x630, the size those scrapers crop to) drawn in the site's own palette. Also sets metadataBase, which is load-bearing rather than cosmetic: without it Next resolves the generated image to http://localhost:3000/opengraph-image — a tag that is present, looks configured, and is unfetchable by every scraper. The fallback is the real host, so a missing env var degrades to correct rather than to localhost. site.url also pointed at botsmann.com, which has no DNS A record — so everything derived from it (canonical URL, og:image, sitemap) named a host that does not resolve. Corrected to where the site actually serves. Pattern verified end-to-end on a sibling repo: build, render, 200 image/png at 1200x630, and og:image emitted as the absolute production URL.
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Every link to this site currently shares as a blank grey rectangle — it ships no
og:imageat all.Adds the Next file-convention card (
opengraph-image.tsx, 1200x630 — the 1.91:1 size Slack, Telegram and the OpenGraph scrapers crop to), drawn in this site's own palette fromglobals.css.Also sets
metadataBase, which is the load-bearing half. Without it Next resolves the generated image tohttp://localhost:3000/opengraph-image: a tag that is present, looks configured, and is unfetchable by every scraper. The fallback is the real host, so a missing env var degrades to correct instead of to localhost.Also corrects
site.url, which pointed atbotsmann.com— a domain with no DNS A record. Everything derived from it (canonical URL, og:image, sitemap) named a host that does not resolve.Verified end-to-end on a sibling repo before porting: build, render,
200 image/png, 1200x630, andog:imageemitted as the absolute production URL. Localtsc --noEmitclean; CI does the build.Part of a fleet-wide sweep — 10 of 15 sites shared blank, found by FleetCrown Atlas.