I see an "Ultra preview" tag next to some posts, but I have no idea what this feature is. Does anybody know?
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It takes the text from the article and lets you read it without opening the link, saves you from annoying ads
Huh, interesting. I'm finding it a bit difficult to tell which parts of the text are being pulled in.
Thanks!
Edit: actually, I'm pretty sure that's not it. It doesn't seem to have pulled out any of the text from this links in this post:
Post in question: https://derp.foo/post/207682
Sometimes whatever tool it's using doesn't grab the text right and messes up. Here's what it should look like.
I think that's the "Summary" button. LJ confirmed above that Ultra Preview is just fetching the large image for the page.