#wordpress 2024-09-09

2024-09-09 UTC
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[snarfed] hey GWG what's the status on "Bridgy Response" likes in the Wordpress webmention plugin?
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[snarfed] someone's still seeing it, mind helping them? https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy/issues/516#issuecomment-2337472421
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GWG [snarfed]: We never figured out a course of action. If there is no summary, it falls back on page title..and the title element is Bridgy Response. We got stalled on the question of what it should say... because if you do Facepile it never shows the text
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GWG We probably should have come up with a simple idea until we could. Maybe an emoji. We have one for each type
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[snarfed] ok!
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[snarfed] GWG is there an open issue in the webmention plugin repo tracking this?
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GWG I believe so..Let me find it
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[snarfed] aha yes https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-webmention/issues/438
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[snarfed] thx
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Loqi [preview] [dshanske] #438 Bridgy Webmentions Set Content to Bridgy Response
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GWG My emoji idea is new
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[snarfed] I like it!
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GWG Perfection is the enemy of good
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GWG [snarfed]: Maybe something in the response would help too though
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[snarfed] GWG you mean the mf2 HTML that Bridgy renders?
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GWG Yes
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GWG A summary element as fallback
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[snarfed] I had a special case in there for the WordPress plugin for many years: https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy/issues/516#issuecomment-151517255
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Loqi [preview] [snarfed] based on the info above, i have to suspect this is a problem with https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-semantic-linkbacks . cc @pfefferle @acegiak @dshanske. in the meantime, i thought of a dumb hack on the bridgy side that should fix this: specia...
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[snarfed] I left it in for 5y. the plugin finally improved a bit at one point, so I finally dropped it. https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy/issues/516#issuecomment-804952931
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Loqi [preview] [snarfed] @dshanske @pfefferle just fyi I'm undoing the workaround for this "Bridgy Response" webmention display problem in WordPress. it's over 5y old, and we thought something in in pfefferle/wordpress-semantic-linkbacks#39 or pfefferle/wordpress-webmention#...
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GWG We rewrote the code for the merge
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GWG It no longer renders a sentence because that created language issues
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GWG I think we may have missed how many people didn't like the facepile
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GWG I originally wanted to have a few preset display options that people could adopt
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GWG But design isn't my strongest point
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gRegor Bridgy has u-like-of in those responses right? Why not have the plugin translate it to text "liked this"?
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gRegor Using i18n of course
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GWG gRegor: That's what the old code did.
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GWG We were trying to simplify
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gRegor Hm, well it's already parsing the mf2
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GWG gRegor: That's the issue. It has no summary nor content..so it falls back to html title
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GWG Bridgy Response is the page's title tag
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gRegor u-like-of is mf2 :)
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gRegor And I don't think Bridgy could (easily) do i18n
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gRegor For a hypothetical summary
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GWG gRegor: Agreed
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GWG Same problem.... but converting it into an emoji reaction seems a quick and dirty solution
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gRegor i18n in a WordPress plugin is much easier though
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[snarfed] I think there's "X liked y" text in e-content in the Bridgy mf2 too. It's just "missing" title
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GWG I'm going from memory, may study the problem
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