A couple of DU updates -- tweet/video indicators and x.com embedding

[EarlG]

Hello all,

As mentioned prior to the fund drive, Elad has just enabled Twitter and YouTube indicators by default for all Star Members. (This feature was supposed to be turned on by default when DU4 launched, but it seems we overlooked it.)

The indicators appear on Latest, Greatest, Latest Videos, and in forums. They look like this:



If you see a blue box next to a thread title, it means the OP contains a tweet. If you see a red box, it means the OP contains a YouTube video.

If you want to turn the indicators off, you can, by going to your Account Settings (My DU > Account Settings) page. Scroll down to the section titled "Social media integration" and set "Show tweet indicator" and "Show video indicator" to "No."

In addition, Elad has fixed x.com embedding, so it should now work correctly without having to use the twitter.com workaround. Using twitter.com URLs will still work, but you can now directly paste tweets with the x.com URL and they should show up.

Thanks for reading!

EarlG

[electric_blue68]

1. TY for your continued efforts to improve DU further. 👍

[lpbk2713]

2. Thanks

That will be helpful.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Kudos!

"twitter.com" was still resolving for "X.com" posts but there had been a delay to render.

[PatSeg]

4. Thank you

[SoFlaBro]

5. Nice new features to see attached content. Very cool!

[highplainsdem]

6. Thanks, EarlG!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. Thanks! Now, with all that spare time you suddenly have, can we have universeodon?

George Takei is there:
Raskin Apologizes To Fauci For Treatment Like 'Convicted Felon': VIDEO
https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/112558886057036154

memeorandum has lots of news posts:
Nigel Farage Immediately Takes a Milkshake to the Face on His First Day of Campaigning (Dan Ladden-Hall/The Daily Beast)
https://universeodon.com/@memeorandum/112559421677001124

Garland slams attacks on the Justice Department, telling lawmakers: 'I will not be intimidated' (Associated Press)
https://universeodon.com/@memeorandum/112559360563258741

[Wild blueberry]

8. Thank you!

[marble falls]

9. Thanks! There's almost too many neat features to count. I think DU pays attention to us!

[cilla4progress]

10. This is absolutely effing

AWESOME!!

THANKS EARLG AND ALL!

[CaptainTruth]

11. Thanks!!!

[CousinIT]

12. THANK YOU!

For everything re: DU. I don't know what the hell I'd do without it!

[Celerity]

13. Thanks!

[crickets]

14. Thank you, EarlG and Elad! nt

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

16. Thanks...

... eom.

[William769]

17. K&R

[hlthe2b]

18. Thank you!

[DoBW]

19. nice

[littlemissmartypants]

20. Thank you.

Regarding YouTube videos...
I asked a question and didn't get a resolution in help about posting YouTube shorts. Is there a work around for them? They don't seem to be visible by just cutting and pasting the original YT Short original link as we're able to do with a typical YouTube video. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

[2naSalit]

21. Thank you for everything!

[ificandream]

22. Dang. I liked the Twitter workaround.

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I looked at it as a “Stick It To the Cons” thing, which was especially deserving to a jerk like Musk. I'm going to keep using the workaround. If it pisses off Musk, I love it.

[sheshe2]

23. Thank you.

[underpants]

24. Love the indicators. I can't stand a video of someone's long take on sm

Something

Let’s see if this works.

Link to tweet

?s=46&t=3VBm1LJ8j8qLp6JTs_8J2A

[Oopsie Daisy]

25. I see you also fixed the width issue of the "RECOMMEND" button becoming slightly wider when *

* it was clicked. (Even though "REC'D" has fewer characters.)

👍️

[Skittles]

26. this is why I keep donating to DU

it keeps improving

[oasis]

27. Thank you

[ChazInAz]

28. Thank you.

Being very hard of hearing, clicking on a post and encountering a video with minimal, if any, text is really annoying.

[orleans]

29. thanks guys! (now i want to see the tweet nevilledog posted in the lounge!) nt

[MustLoveBeagles]

30. Thanks EarlG

[Hekate]

31. Thanks, EarlG!

[CottonBear]

32. Thank you EarlG & Elad! Y'all rock!

I am so proud to be a DUer! 😀

[happybird]

33. Thank you!

Now that I’m working again, was finally able to donate a small amount to re-up my star membership and this was the first thing I noticed! It’s great! It’s such a simple and effective way to know what you are about to click on, especially if you prefer reading articles. Thank you so much!

[SunSeeker]

35. PLEASE enable Bluesky embadding. And open a DU account on Bluesky!

🙏