Forum Issues

[George K]

Formatting issues mentioned elsewhere.

Is it related to the dollar sign?

[Klaus]

I know the reason for the issue. I'm merely thinking about the best way to get rid of it. Yes, it is related to pairs of dollar signs.

[Klaus]

Fixed the formatting issue for now.

[Klaus]

Some people have trouble viewing embedded Youtube videos.

I've changed the way YT videos are embedded in that a link to open the video in a separate window is always added below the video.

For instance, here's a random YT video. You should see a link below the embedded video.

Link to video

Please let me know if this solves the problem or creates any new problems I'm not aware of.

[Klaus]

For the other admins (and myself, if I forget later on): If this ever makes problems, what I changed is a rule of the "Embed" plugin. I added the part that starts with "<a href=...".

[Axtremus]

[Klaus]

I'll experiment with the Twitter support of the forum a little to make it more reliable. Tweet embedding may not work properly at random times.

I may have to reboot the forum once or twice, which means that the forum may be unavailable for a few minutes.

[Klaus]

[Klaus]

OK, this seems to work. I'm now using a different, hopefully more robust way of embedding tweets.

I've also added a "Link to Tweet" link under every embedded Twitter post, so if for whatever reason the tweet is not embedded, you can click on the link.

[Rainman]

Klaus, the "Link to Tweet" is an OK solution. The problem as far as I was concerned once I realized I could see the link if quoting, was that a new user would be confused with posts that appeared to be blank. Initially I thought a viewer had to have their own Twitter account to access anything on Twitter. Guess not!

[Klaus]

@Rainman do embedded Tweets still not show up when you use the forum?

Do they a) never show up or b) sometimes show up? What OS/browser do you use?

If you click on this link, does a bunch of computer code show up?

[taiwan_girl]

@Klaus said in Forum Issues:

@Rainman do embedded Tweets still not show up when you use the forum?

Do they a) never show up or b) sometimes show up? What OS/browser do you use?

If you click on this link, does a bunch of computer code show up?

I know I am not Rainman, but I will answer in my experience.

Embedded Tweets have always shown top
I use iMac 10.14.6
When I click on the link, a bunch of code does show up

[Klaus]

@taiwan_girl Thanks for the report. It's always very hard to fix an error without being able to reproduce it, that's why I'm trying to find out what may cause Rainman's problems and what his system is.

[Rainman]

Klaus, the embedded tweets never show up, and yes, the link did open up the page of computer code.
I'm on Windows 10 / Chrome.
But, the text link works fine for Tweets.

[Klaus]

Do you have any plugins/extensions installed? Could you check whether the tweets appear when you browse the site in "private mode" (which disables most extensions AFAIK)?

[Rainman]

Klaus, in "incognito" mode, the Tweets do show up!
I wonder if it might be Ghostery, my ad blocker?
Anyone else use Ghostery? It's excellent, as it not only blocks ads on web sites, but removes ads on Youtube.

[Axtremus]

@Rainman said in Forum Issues:

Anyone else use Ghostery? It's excellent, as it not only blocks ads on web sites, but removes ads on Youtube.

I use Ghostery Lite and Adblock Plus Control Panel with Safari 13.1.1 on macOS 10.15.5 ... embedded tweets show up fine with this combo.

Also tried Chrome (version 83.0.4103.116) with Adblock and Ghostery on macOS 10.15.5 ... embedded tweets show up fine with this combo.

Also tried FireFox (version 77.0.1) without any adblocking or anti-tracking plugin/extension on macOS 10.15.5 ... embedded tweets show up fine with this combo too.

[Klaus]

@Rainman this seems to be a known issue with ghostery. Here you can find a few things to try to make embedded tweets work,

The problem seems to be with the abblocker and not the way the forum embeds tweets. Blame shifting is wonderful!

[Rainman]

@Klaus said in Forum Issues:

@Rainman this seems to be a known issue with ghostery. Here you can find a few things to try to make embedded tweets work,

The problem seems to be with the abblocker and not the way the forum embeds tweets. Blame shifting is wonderful!

Thanks, Klaus. I deactivated the Twitter block as well as syndication on Ghostery.

[Klaus]

@Rainman but does it work?