#wordpress 2021-04-08

2021-04-08 UTC
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reed I found on old posts that the comments pulled from twitter don't look good and I don't understand why ... do you see something here that can cause the issue? https://maffulli.net/2012/10/12/the-sad-state-of-free-software-collaboration-tools/
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reed recent articles don't have the issue, like https://maffulli.net/2021/03/30/fsf-should-update-its-definition-of-computer-and-user-to-effectively-defend-their-freedom/ for example
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[KevinMarks] the problem may be that twitter doesn't keep old profile images, so when people change their photo, the old ones look bad
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GWG I was just talking about the long standing idea of storing a copy locally in the webmention plugin
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reed ah, that could be the issue here
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reed so Twitter changes the URL of the profile picture when it's updated?
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reed https://twivatar.glitch.me/ these folks have solved it by building a workaround :)
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reed GWG: either store images locally or, IMO better, put an empty placeholder when the old twtiter photo URL is 404
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reed this keeps the code easier
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reed another approach, if you get a 404, is to update the object like Twitter suggests? ```Outdated profile images
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reed If a 403 or 404 error is returned when trying to access a profile image, refresh the user object using GET users/show to retrieve the most recent profile_image_url or profile_image_url_https. The URL may have changed, which happens for instance when the user updates their profile image.```
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GWG reed, we don't have code that reverifies, just the URL
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