Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia
> People seem to like it — we are seeing 5,000 hits to our API a minute to serve those cards that show when you hover over any link.Uhm, no. It just means that people are hovering over links with their mouse. It does not imply any opinion about the previews.> The original idea was conceived four years agoWhen I was active at Wikipedia/Wikibooks 12 years ago, there was a user script floating around that did the same thing, except I'm not sure if it included an image. (Mediawiki allows a user to define custom CSS and JS that get embedded in every page of their user session.)I don't mean to express dislike or downplay the hard work that went into this feature, just to add some context.