Red Mosquito

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:Alright, so what's broken?

Insta?
Twitter?

Give me the list and examples so I can fuck around with shit

Ta

Garbage Dump could use a reboot.

Hey, look, this is cool

Any chance you could update the site's SSL certificate?

The insta code doesn’t seem to be working.

It works, it's just very strict. You have to do it exactly the way the code shows when you hover your pointer over it.
Which means:

- http, as opposed to https
- no www in the URL
- must end with a trailing slash

This means you can’t just paste the share link Instagram gives you, because that usually looks like:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DN1nMG6UCzR ... _copy_link

But if you do it the right way, it works:

I’ve been editing it that way for ages and it was working, but yesterday it did not. I’ll check my work again.

spike wrote:I’ve been editing it that way for ages and it was working, but yesterday it did not. I’ll check my work again.

I assure you, anyone who has the skill to make changes to RM's code has been MIA for some time.

not to be that guy, but can’t AI do it?

Jorge wrote:It works, it's just very strict. You have to do it exactly the way the code shows when you hover your pointer over it.

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[insta]http://instagram.com/p/DN1nMG6UCzR/[/insta]

Which means:

- http, as opposed to https
- no www in the URL
- must end with a trailing slash

This means you can’t just paste the share link Instagram gives you, because that usually looks like:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DN1nMG6UCzR ... _copy_link

But if you do it the right way, it works:

Here’s an instance where I did all that originally and it resulted in a broken link. Maybe you can try:

http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 5#p2202865

Being able to embed YouTube shorts would be cool. Maybe Jorge can figure it out.

Easy

Same principle applies. Every YouTube video has a unique ID, shorts aren't any different. Just grab the ID from the video URL and use the YT code

Yer a fuckin' wizard, m8.

Jorge wrote:

Huh, that’s an entirely different code suffix. Did you post that from a laptop? Maybe it’s an iPhone app thing.

This is what it gives me (before I make the edits you mentioned above):

https://www.instagram.com/share/_24gi4Hxp

Here’s yours (after edits):

http://instagram.com/p/DPMca-vkVvC/

I figured this out. If using the Insta app, click the share option but select open in Chrome. Then copy that link and edit appropriately.

There’s of course ways to streamline this process on a board such as this, but I shant hold my breath.