Twitter vs x - url treatment by the forum

[jon-nyc]

I was noticing all my Twitter links were showing up as naked urls but George’s were still displaying correctly. Looking into it, I see that he was still using Twitter.com in his urls whereas mine were x.com.

Just now I edited an x link and replaced x with Twitter and it displayed.

I guess this is both a PSA and a question to the tech gurus if that’s something that can be fixed.

George - do you go back and edit your links or are you somehow still able to copy Twitter links directly from the app or web version?

[LuFins Dad]

My bet is he’s copying links from the webpage utilizing the Twitter URL

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Twitter vs x - url treatment by the forum:

George - do you go back and edit your links or are you somehow still able to copy Twitter links directly from the app or web version?

I use the web version of "X" with safari. I just "copy" link and paste it into the forum:

https://t witter.com/TomBevanRCP/status/1700114280501129301?s=20

The URL still shows as twitter.

[jon-nyc]

Interesting, do the same thing from the app and it shows up as x

[Klaus]

[Klaus]

[Klaus]

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[Klaus]

Looks like I managed to make it work for both twitter.com and x.com URLs!

[George K]

Outstanding. Now @jon-nyc can stop complaining.

[Klaus]

I'm sure you are all dying to know how I did this: I cloned the repository of the plugin and changed the regular expression that searches for twitter URLs to also include x.com URLs.

Specifically, I replaced this line of code

const regularUrl = /<a href="(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:(?:(?:mobile|www)\.)?twitter\.com)\/([^\/"\s]*)\/statuse?s?\/([^\/"\s]*)(\/photo\/\d|)".*?>.+?<\/a>/g

by this

const regularUrl = /<a href="(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:(?:(?:mobile|www)\.)?(twitter|x)\.com)\/([^\/"\s]*)\/statuse?s?\/([^\/"\s]*)(\/photo\/\d|)".*?>.+?<\/a>/g

It was important for me to let you know about this.

[jon-nyc]

That’s exactly what George was going to suggest.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Twitter vs x - url treatment by the forum:

That’s exactly what George was going to suggest.