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colin @vogon7/3/2023, 10:18 PM

liffy 💜@lifning

liffy 💜@lifning7/3/2023, 10:16 PM

there sure are lots of people still posting twitter URLs even though we all know ad nauseam at this point that they don't work. i'm kind of confused as to why? if you've still got an account there and you wanna share the post i think your only recourse at this point is to take a screenshot of it, right? otherwise you're just pointing people at their sign-up flow

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colin @vogon7/3/2023, 10:18 PM

I actually didn't realize that twitter embed cards only worked if you (the viewer) were logged into twitter until now, lmao

gonna go back and edit some posts I made today

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2 mello @MelloMakes7/3/2023, 11:24 PM

To someone who doesn't have an account anymore, it's made looking at discords almost pointless

🌊@wave7/3/2023, 11:49 PM

last bit was a little rude but my snicker refused to be stifled

liffy 💜@lifning7/4/2023, 3:56 AM

i genuinely think sometimes the "omg, they said what?? that's outrageous!" part of the brain and the part of the brain that processes how to actually behave get out of sync sometimes

noted ear-haver @rachelmae7/3/2023, 11:51 PM

i think fx/vxtwitter have been updated with workarounds but honestly it's probably best to just move away from posting tweet links in general, unless there really is no other source for whatever it is you're posting about

or at the very least, yeah, provide a screenshot and description of what you're linking to

@ocaeon7/4/2023, 9:03 PM

the unwarned, unexplained, and unapologised twitter links have been the most laughable behaviour i've seen from people pretending to be done with that place. and i'm not talking about now, this has been ridiculous since the first flood of cohost signups.

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Remi Erin Autor the remeranAuthor @remeranAuthor7/3/2023, 10:20 PM

You can sort of still post links to vxtwitter or fxtwitter or whatever you wanna use but it's not worth it when you can paste image data into cohost now.

@cofruitrigus7/3/2023, 10:24 PM

I don't have a Twitter account but the embeds on your post earlier were working for me. It's just so unpredictable at the moment.

Misty @dog7/3/2023, 10:34 PM

lmao what

@keithzg7/3/2023, 10:55 PM

Last I checked embeds were still working without needing to be logged into Twitter. Ex. https://keithzg.ca/tmp/tweet_embed.html

andi @mcc7/4/2023, 12:41 AM

I am not logged in to Twitter but I can see Twitter embeds successfully on my Cohost front page right now.

However things that don't work include

Clicking on any Twitter embed
(So I am told) Twitter embeds in Apple iMessage, for some reason

colin @vogon7/4/2023, 12:43 AM

yeah, per your + keith's experience it seems like maybe it's just twitter's availability on their embeds being garbage? either way seems like there's a significant number of embeds that just don't work reliably

andi @mcc7/4/2023, 12:44 AM

Baffling

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