My og:image URLs were broken for months. baseURL was the culprit.
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Paste one of my post links into a social preview and the card comes up with no image. The site itself renders fine, every page, every browser. The culprit was one character in `hugo.toml`: `baseURL = "/"`, which quietly turns every absolute URL the site emits into a relative one that only a browser can love. 🧪 Tested with Hugo 0.163.3 · Blowfish 2.104 The symptom # Share cards without images, that was the visible part. View source on any page and the metadata told the fuller story: