Tweet link previews not working anymore

[robster7674]

Both in Desktop as in iOS preview links for tweets stopped working recently. I thought it was a Twitter issue at first, but for example in Telegram, for the same tweet link a preview is generated fine.

[Bilb]

Seems fine to me, since when did you get this issue?
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[robster7674]

@Bilb : actually, what you're showing is not a preview of the message, just for the account.

I used https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1643873905113722880:

Session Desktop:

Telegram:

I'm unsure when this started. I noticed it a week or two ago.

[KeeJef]

Are you saying that the link preview does not appear when sent from a desktop device and received on iOS device? or that the link preview is not generated on the desktop device?

[robster7674]

Both: there is no preview generated on the sending device nor is it displayed correctly on the receiving device, whether sender and receiver are Desktop or iOS or vice versa.

[robster7674]

@KeeJef : just had the same issue on Desktop with an Odysee-link: no preview generated for https://odysee.com/@drsambailey:c/Reiner-Fuellmich's-'Coronaviruses':8, while in Telegram the preview works fine.

[robster7674]

I noticed in another application where I wanted to share this link that it was split at the ":" at the end, so it became:

https://odysee.com/@drsambailey:c/Reiner-Fuellmich's-'Coronaviruses'

When taking that link and putting it in Telegram I see the same general preview as I see in Session Desktop. Could it be that Session parses the link different from Telegram (and others) and splits it for whatever reason at the full colon?

[robster7674]

@KeeJef previews for YouTube links on iOS and desktop also stopped working, example https://youtu.be/bRj3Sa-Q41A.

[Bilb]

When taking that link and putting it in Telegram I see the same general preview as I see in Session Desktop. Could it be that Session parses the link different from Telegram (and others) and splits it for whatever reason at the full colon?

Hey,
So about that Odysee link issue, it's actually part of the same issue I've already opened 15 months ago on the linkify-it repo at markdown-it/linkify-it#100

You can reproduce the link not being matched correctly with this page:
https://markdown-it.github.io/linkify-it/
If you paste "https://odysee.com/@drsambailey:c/Reiner-Fuellmich's-'Coronaviruses':8" on the left, you can see the last 3 char are not linkified as they are believe to not be part of the link.

Signal desktop has the same issue signalapp#6334 as they are using the same library.

[Bilb]

About the

previews for YouTube links on iOS and desktop also stopped working, example https://youtu.be/bRj3Sa-Q41A.

Do you mean that a preview send from desktop to ios does not work or desktop to desktop is broken too? I think this might be a iOS issue as they appear to be working fine desktop to desktop with that link