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It's on my priority list to look into. It should be possible, but I'd need to block out some dev time to work on it.

 

Running Chrome on Samsung 21 FE. Thanks.

 

Now working of its own accord

 

Hi. How do I delete my account?

 

@Jason Tate thought/suggestion - I've seen alot of sub-Reddits no longer allowing links to X/Twitter. Is there potential to do something similar here? Obviously it makes sharing news/information to the forums a touch more difficult, but it doesn't feel right to assist in generating traffic/revenue to a website run by a Nazi lunatic.

 

I would certainly support it

 

Do what everyone else does, provide a screenshot. No need to share the direct link.

 

I've thought about it, but in general I think our current implementation, with an auto embed of the content, is the best solution because:

1. It doesn't drive traffic to the website. With places like Reddit, the URL directs people to Twitter itself, with the goal of not giving them traffic/ad views. Which the auto embed already does.
2. Gives people the option here of not seeing any Tweets (turn off auto embed) and you can choose to see or not see Tweets for yourself.
3. The vast majority of sports and political information and news still comes from Twitter and those threads are updated consistently with news and breaking information. Being able to have auto embeds in those threads means people can get information without actually ever viewing Twitter itself (many do).
4. Actually 'banning links' would be relatively difficult to do, given there's hundreds (thousands?) of URL shortners, I can't programmatically stop people from posting links, and if links are going to be posted, I'd rather them actually show the post (for reasons outlined above).

Still thinking through thought on the whole thing, and may change my mind, but at the moment I lean toward our current implementation being the best available. If Twitter/X becomes less of "the" place for political and sports breaking news, my calculus may change.