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Why meta tag title and description are the same?

Just curious to know why the meta title and description are identical. In vbulletin/XF/WBB/IPB the description uses the first words from the first post, in mybb there is no meta description, in phpBB and SMF I see the same behaviour as in elkarte.
sorry for my bad english

Re: Why meta tag title and description are the same?

Reply #1

I suspect "SMF … same behaviour" explains it all. :P

But yes, it does seem like a "description" that merely duplicates the title might well be better left out completely.

Re: Why meta tag title and description are the same?

Reply #2

 emanuele feels the same
Bugs creator.
Features destroyer.
Template killer.

Re: Why meta tag title and description are the same?

Reply #3

Is there a quick and dirty way to change it and use the first 300 characters from the first post? 
sorry for my bad english

Re: Why meta tag title and description are the same?

Reply #4

I think XF also cover for FB (og:) and Twitter (twitter:) as well.