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Fix Twitter embedding

Can we fix Twitter auto-embedding on this site, please? It makes posting Twitter links impossible.

I looked into this a bit, and bare links like this:

Code:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/820764134857969666

get auto-converted into HTML code like this:

Code:

<div style="display: none;" id="ame_noshow_post_1484521830_1">

        <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/820764134857969666" title="Twitter" target="_blank">Twitter</a>

</div>

<div style="display: inline;" id="ame_doshow_post_1484521830_1">

<div id="tweet_ame_1484521830_1_820764134857969666"></div>

********>(function(jQ){jQ.ajax({url:"https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/oembed.json?id=820764134857969666",dataType:"jsonp",async:true,success:function(data){jQ("#tweet_ame_1484521830_1_820764134857969666").html(data.html)}});})(jQuery);*********>

</div>

It's obviously not working because of the word filter auto-conversion of text into asterisks: ********. I believe the converted text is "script" and "/script" (with angle brackets).

I doubt this is fixable without unconditionally allowing script tags (or a lot of effort, which I think is obvious you guys don't want to put in for this site). "tweet_ame" seems to indicate that this auto-embedding is being done by a module for Automatic Media Embedder.

Can you just disable the Twitter embedding function, so that we can paste bare Twitter links without the forum completely mangling them?

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Yes please! Either make it work like it should, or kill the twitter embedding code that exists in here entirely. What it does now is complete garbage.

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They will get around to it.....In 2021

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Way too optimistic, Deftones. ;)

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Agreed, embedding of widely popular sites like Twitter should be a no brainer.

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Hi Everyone,

So I just talked to tech and unfortunately we are not going to be able to support embedding twitter links.

To enable HTML on VBulletin we had to disable scripts and this is what is causing Twitter embedding to not work.

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So how about being able to just post raw links without the link getting all garbled with a bunch of asterisks?

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^ you mean the bare minimum they could possibly provide? Come on, now.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by IBrshao (Post 12993134)

Hi Everyone,

So I just talked to tech and unfortunately we are not going to be able to support embedding twitter links.

http://i64.tinypic.com/8xpwqo.jpg

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:banana: 2017, baby! :banana:

(Seriously, thanks IBobi)

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Test:

Edit: Much better. Thanks!

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Test: Instagram photo:

I don't see it. What am I doing wrong?

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I see your post DJariya.

Also, there's a dvdtalk twitter account?

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Oh okay, I guess it was delayed. It didn't show up after I posted it initially.

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Whelp. Credit where it's due. You guys fixed something for us.

The one caveat (for users) to be aware of is that I believe both of these auto-embeds require loading of additional JavaScript, but when posting a quick reply, the page scripts have already finished loading. So when your reply is posted, you yourself won't be able to see the embed properly until you refresh the page.

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Who said the Bannon administration was going to be a bad one?

Spoiler:

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Twitter embedding works, which is great, but whenever someone embeds a tweet it doesn't show up in my browser. How can I fix that?

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^ What browser are you using? Does it work in another browser?

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Firefox on my laptop and Brave on my phone. They do show up on Safari on my laptop, but that browser is much less secure than Firefox.

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Awesome, thanks iBobi.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Supermallet (Post 13096761)

Firefox on my laptop and Brave on my phone. They do show up on Safari on my laptop, but that browser is much less secure than Firefox.

I just installed Brave.
You're right. In this thread, the instagram embeds look just fine, but the twitter embeds are invisible. Seems like something that could be fixed with a tweak. Let's hope they look into it. :)

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If I quote a post with an embedded tweet, I can copy the URL and paste it into another tab to see the original tweet, but obviously that is a pain.

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Bumping this because the way twitter embeds work here seems to be the opposite of how the actual twitter posts themselves look. Everywhere else, the TEXT appears above the picture/link. Here, the picture/link appears above the TEXT.

Any way to swap that around? It's a tiny issue, at best, but just something I wanted to mention.

Example.

This is how this looks on twitter.com, the mobile app, and pretty much anywhere else:
https://i.imgur.com/SJ2MB1p.png

This is (generally) how it looks here:
https://i.imgur.com/aoSWQg9.png