Just bugs / missing functionality reports - no griping

Harry and Meaghan thread has just developed the fault as above of a bogus page number with no posts on it - in current affairs link below - thread slow moving anyway but just so you know- it’s only one bogus page number so far but it’s only a recent thing as didn’t have it early last week in case that makes a difference

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058166841/harry-and-meghan/p444

copra born thread now showing one excess page too - I’ll leave it with ya as obviously there’s problems somewhere - cheers and thanks for the reply

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057960593/cupra-born/p41

I have no idea anymore when I click into a thread if I'll be brought to the top of the last page, the last post of the last page or some random position on the last page of a thread.

I get the feeling the only folk left around here are the ones that are here out of habit and nostalgia, there's no way new users would continue using a dysfunctional website.

@DrZeuss I'm definitely here out of nostalgia and old enough to remember the gaming forum it sprung forth from! Even when I didn't play 'quake'.

Shared before but I use the embed links option.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/european-authorities-press-on-with-digital-wallets-for-social-media-age-verification/

Some links like above never parse. When I see that happening I delete the link and post it like below.

Digital wallets for social media age verification

But that maybe a problem with the external site not providing a parsable link?

Is that a Vanilla thing or an X thing?

Why does Twitter unfurl but not X.

Do Vanilla need to add X to list of 'unfurl' supported sites?

X links not working while Twitter links do work is most definitely a Vanilla/Boards issue.

When you paste a link, the Boards frontend sends the URL to https://www.boards.ie/api/v2/media/scrape. The Boards back-end then goes off and retrieves the details from the URL, and returns them to the front-end, which formats them into the 'unfurled' link that you see. For most sites, the backend can just use a generic workflow, grabbing the link details easily.

However, many popular sites (including Twitter/X), don't allow third-parties to simply scrape their site. You have to instead call their APIs. So when Boards' back-end sees a link containing twitter.com, it doesn't use the generic workflow to build the unfurled link. It instead constructs the details by calling the Twitter APIs [1].

But when you pass an X link to Boards' back-end, it doesn't recognise that this is a "special" link - it just uses the generic workflow to attempt to get the details. And X/Twitter doesn't allow that, so it fails.

Depending on exactly how the Boards' back-end bit is done, it's either Boards, Vanilla, or a plug-in developer that needs to make the change, but it's definitely not X.

[1] Actually, the backend just says "hey this is a Twitter link" and lets the front-end make the API calls, but that's not really relevant

@28064212 X links not working while Twitter links do work is most definitely a Vanilla/Boards issue. !?

Is it though, has X provided an update api for boards and other forums to use yet, to utilize the X url?

https://developer.x.com/en/docs/x-for-websites

This url doesn't resolve: - https://publish.twitter.com/oembed

Workaround for Boards.ie would be to used the censored words function to change "x.com" to "twitter.com"

Tip from here:- https://support.proboards.com/thread/674748/allow-urls-work-same-twitter

With the changes to page numbering it has the side effect of google search links not pointing to the correct pages of a thread and responding with a page not found. There is now only 212 pages on the below link provided by google.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058241791/so-x-nothing-to-see-here-elons-in-control-part-xxx-threadbans-in-op/p339

Bump

A resurfaced 'The Tommy Tiernan Show Thread - Mod warning, see OP' because of show starting back on Saturday has the page bug as well. New thread created which can be merged back when Blank Pages bug is fixed.

There is no point hoping new posts would resolve the issue because I have notice new pages get created and the number of pages in a thread just increases.

For (previously) busy threads affected by this, can't the mods lock them and open a new one? Temporary fix…

Looking good for me here, Mike.