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Las Vegas Mixx

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5. Facebook problem with FIX

Reply to LVZ (Original post)

Sat May 31, 2025, 01:42 PM

May 31

The redirect link works great except that Facebook does not add a thumbnail image to the post.
This may not be important but if it is, I have a fix (Facebook hack) that restores the post thumbnail.

Note that post #1 has no thumbnail image but post #3 has the image with the same redirect link.
The trick is to post the original link (#2). Then edit your post to erase the original link replacing it with the redirect link. Facebook will keep the old thumbnail image even though the link URL has changed.

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