Solved Unfurling

[grahamperrin]

For those of us who avoid X, alternative views of the relevant tweets (2015, 2020):

https://nitter.net/bheron/status/681348123021717504

https://nitter.net/probonopd/status/1308101818166243334

Please, is it possible to allow unfurling?

Thanks

https://nitter.net/about

 

[SirDice]

It's on by default. If you post a single URL the forum software automatically creates an unfurl URL.

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.freebsd.org[/URL]:

The FreeBSD Project

FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.

www.freebsd.org

Note that the 'unfurling' happens client-side. Why some URLs unfurl and other's don't, no idea. Probably has something to do with the site itself.

 

[grahamperrin]

Thanks, also I found this <https://xenforo.com/community/threads/s9e-media-sites.139274/page-75#post-1570745>:

… I'd love to be able to optionally use Nitter as an alternative to Twitter's own embeds but AFAIK they don't provide a way to resize the embeds to the correct dimensions.

The unfurl URLs are present, so I'll treat this as solved.

 

[unitrunker]

This might be why:

https://nitter.net/robots.txt

 

[grahamperrin]

Thanks.

Test https://twitter.com/freebsdfndation/status/1273391414483828737

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1273391414483828737

View: https://twitter.com/freebsdfndation/status/1273391414483828737

• the MEDIA tag and other code applies, automatically
• no longer presents the medium, I guess, since X did whatever it did (no longer interests me).

Test https://nitter.net/freebsdfndation/status/1273391414483828737

https://nitter.net/freebsdfndation/status/1273391414483828737

Test https://nitter.net/barefootgbs/status/1203432111966957569 (indexed by Google, contains the word unfurled)

https://nitter.net/barefootgbs/status/1203432111966957569

 

[SirDice]

Twitter, youtube, facebook, etc. have specific "media" codes. Although we have disabled several of these standard "media" links. For Nitter there's nothing, I can't enable something that isn't there.

 

[grahamperrin]

Today I realised: XenForo search does not find what's visibly unfurled. I guess that the linked title and other content is not indexed.

So, I'll probably make minimal use of furl/unfurl in the future. It's easy enough to get markup for indexable link text (I use Link Text and Location Copier).

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Incidentally (this topic was originally about an alternative front end to Musk's X): Nitter is dead

 

[SirDice]

XenForo search does not find what's visibly unfurled. I guess that the linked title and other content is not indexed.

Unfurling happens client side, i.e. inside your browser. Not on the forum's side, the forum software has no idea of the content where the URL is pointing to. It only stores the URL itself. It cannot index or search in data it doesn't have access to.