We kept hearing from folks that sharing clips into chat apps had gotten unreliable — links that never turned into previews, previews with no picture. We've made a bunch of fixes on our side. Here's the honest rundown of what to expect now, app by app.
One thing worth knowing up front: chat apps remember links they've tried before. If an app gave up on a Yarn link back when sharing was broken, it may keep showing that old bare link for a while. A clip you haven't shared before is the fair test.
The full experience: paste a clip link and Discord should show the card and play the clip right in the channel, sound and all.
Unfurls with the clip's title and its animated GIF preview. Slack doesn't play our videos inline — the moving picture is the GIF, and clicking through gets you the clip with sound.
A tappable preview card with the clip's picture. An older link still showing as bare text is iMessage remembering a past failure — try a clip you haven't sent before.
Recent versions of Google Messages show the clip's title and preview picture. Older versions vary — if you get a bare link, the link itself still works.
Posting a clip link should attach a preview card with the clip's picture. Each app decides the layout (and occasionally changes it), but the preview should be there.
Both should show a link preview with the clip's picture. We've had fewer reports here, good or bad — if a preview doesn't show for you, we'd genuinely like to hear about it.
We can't control what each app draws — every one renders its own preview card, and they cache old failures. But if a preview is missing where this page says to expect one, tell us: the app's name and a link to the clip is all we need.