Forum Issues

[George K]

Looks like the "shoutbox" killed the twitter embed.

[Klaus]

Here's a random tweet.

Here's a random video.

Link to video

[Klaus]

OK, goodbye "Shoutout" plugin.

[George K]

@klaus I really didn't see the advantage to it.

[Klaus]

Well, I thought every once in a while it may be fun to play around with some new forum feature - there's a quite active community - and see whether we like it.

But if they break other stuff, then it isn't fun.

[Axtremus]

I support experimentations, they help us keep up with the time and they keep things interesting. Nothing we discuss here is mission critical, so no big deal with this site “breaks” once in a while. The underlying architecture of this system allows for fairly easy backup/restore, so we can recover from a system issue fairly easily when our experiments occasionally go sideways.

[George K]

"Undefined?"

[mark]

"undefined" at the bottom of the Unread Post page.

[Klaus]

Indeed, I can replicate the error.

Since the error doesn't seem to cause any real problems, for now I'll just wait whether it gets solved automatically in the next release of the forum.

If it starts to make any real problems, I'll try to debug it (e.g. see whether it depends on a particular plugin).

[taiwan_girl]

Not sure if it is just me, but I dont see the emoticons any more. When I click on the symbol, I get a tab for "legal information" on emoticons.

(Just a very minor inconvenience)

[Klaus]

@taiwan_girl said in Forum Issues:

Not sure if it is just me, but I dont see the emoticons any more. When I click on the symbol, I get a tab for "legal information" on emoticons.

(Just a very minor inconvenience)

Working on it...

[Klaus]

@taiwan_girl Try again now.

[taiwan_girl]

@klaus

[mark]

Twitter links vs embeded tweets.

[mark]

Apparently Duck Duck Go Privacy Essentials was the culprit. I deactivated it on this site and embedded twitter is working.

[Axtremus]

@mark said in Forum Issues:

Apparently Duck Duck Go Privacy Essentials was the culprit. I deactivated it on this site and embedded twitter is working.

The DuckDuckGo browser app does not appear to let me disable it, so Twitter embedding just won't work in the DuckDuckGo browser. (Not really a complain, just an observation.)

[mark]

This is weird.

Embedded Tweet shows up but, scroll down and they do not.

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[Klaus]

I think in the particular examples, the tweet that was supposed to be embedded does no longer exist on the Twitter website, so it's not a problem with the forum itself.

[mark]

@klaus said in Forum Issues:

I think in the particular examples, the tweet that was supposed to be embedded does no longer exist on the Twitter website, so it's not a problem with the forum itself.

That makes sense.

[Klaus]

Official support for our Ubuntu version runs out in 2022, hence I'm upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04.

This can take a few hours in which the forum will likely not be accessible. I'm sorry about that.