State of the Brontos

[Upthorn]

Did beatbandito's avatar disappear for everyone else, or just me?

Still showing up for me.

I guess it must still be in your browser cache. Tried opening the image in new tab and got

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This brontoforum.us page can’t be found

No webpage was found for the web address:
https://brontoforum.us/download/file.php?avatar=95_1618187414.gif

HTTP ERROR 404

[beatbandito]

spooky

[Yoji]

Scene: Kiddo 01 and I, looking over the #Tell Friday thread for silly cat pictures, as we do

Kiddo 01: (pointing at the forum wallpaper) "what is that?"
Yoji: "Oh, just the wallpaper for the Brontoforums." (opens background image) "Just cool dinosaur bones and stuff."
K1: "why are there girls there?"
Y: "I... don't know. I thought she was a shaman or something? Come to think of it, I've wondered where that came from for a while now."

This seems as good a place to ask as any: Where did that wallpaper come from, anyway?

[Mongrel]

Mothra found it online (DeviantArt?) years back and asked the artist nicely if we could use it for our forum background.

[Mothra]

Scene: Kiddo 01 and I, looking over the #Tell Friday thread for silly cat pictures, as we do

Kiddo 01: (pointing at the forum wallpaper) "what is that?"
Yoji: "Oh, just the wallpaper for the Brontoforums." (opens background image) "Just cool dinosaur bones and stuff."
K1: "why are there girls there?"
Y: "I... don't know. I thought she was a shaman or something? Come to think of it, I've wondered where that came from for a while now."

This seems as good a place to ask as any: Where did that wallpaper come from, anyway?

Yep, it was used with permission by the artist, "Yana Moskaluk", back on 2014.

You can see it on their website, here: https://yanamoskaluk.com/

If you scroll down, it's listed under "Dino Pattern" around the bottom.

[Lady]

you saw nothing

[Lady]

I assume I fat-fingered moved some phpbb install file while dicking around in the online file manager. You all got a free upgrade to phpbb 3.1.12 as a result.

[Mongrel]

Have Twitter embeds completely stopped working for anyone else on the board? I'm on Waterfox and don't have anything relevant blocked, I think.

[Thad]

if i say yes, will you stop posting them

[Mongrel]

if i say yes, will you stop posting them

Probably going to do that regardless, but like, I think you know that I've been barely doing that anyway and at this point others are posting more Twitter links than I am.

Y'KNOW

[Upthorn]

Have Twitter embeds completely stopped working for anyone else on the board? I'm on Waterfox and don't have anything relevant blocked, I think.

It's an ad-block issue. I have to turn off Vivaldi's default blocking for the embeds to work, but oddly enough they work fine with uBlock Origin still on.

(Sorry, Thad)

[Mongrel]

Have Twitter embeds completely stopped working for anyone else on the board? I'm on Waterfox and don't have anything relevant blocked, I think.

It's an ad-block issue. I have to turn off Vivaldi's default blocking for the embeds to work, but oddly enough they work fine with uBlock Origin still on.

(Sorry, Thad)

Weird. Pretty sure Waterfox has no inherent blocking and uBlock Origin isn't blocking anything (turned it off to test anyway) and I don't use any other adblocker in conjunction with uBlock. NoScript isn't the culprit either.

EDIT: Looked in userchrome and about:config, didn't see anything obvious. Hmmmmmmm

EDIT2: Turned out to be Waterfox's inherent tracking protections. Annoying that I can't carve out per-website exceptions... maybe there's an extension for that.

[Mazian]

As a semi-related feature request – which I don't know the practicality of – when an embedded tweet has been deleted, is there a way to display a failure message inside the post? At the moment, it just doesn't display anything at all, which makes some old posts confusing unless you quote them to see that there's an invisible embed inside.

[Mothra]

As a semi-related feature request – which I don't know the practicality of – when an embedded tweet has been deleted, is there a way to display a failure message inside the post? At the moment, it just doesn't display anything at all, which makes some old posts confusing unless you quote them to see that there's an invisible embed inside.

Well, here's the code for the current Twitter embed.

If you (or someone else) knows how to add that into the code here, I'm happy to replace it:

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<script type="text/javascript">
function loadx(data) {
  document.write(data.html);
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/oembed.json?id={IDENTIFIER}&callback=loadx"></script>
<div class='twitter' onLoad='loadx().html'/></div>

[Mazian]

Not my expertise, but as an unrelated modification, appending &dnt=true to the api.twitter.com URL will prevent* the embedded tweet from being used in personalized ads/suggestions**.

* Supposedly.
** Assuming anyone here both still has a Twitter account, and didn't disable personalized ads immediately upon creating it.

[Thad]

This is back-of-the-napkin and I've never looked at the Twitter API, but I'd probably start by changing

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  document.write(data.html);

to

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  document.write(data.html.length ? data.html : '[Error displaying tweet]');

and see if that does anything.

It's going to depend on what's in that data object, whether data.html is defined, what value it's returning when the tweet isn't found, etc. I've got a hunch that if it's empty it just returns an empty string (I think if it were returning null or undefined we'd be seeing "null" or "undefined" in place of the tweet), hence my checking its length, but of course it could be something else.

[Mothra]

Okay, I have replaced the code with this:

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<script type="text/javascript">
function loadx(data) {
  document.write(data.html.length ? data.html : '[Error displaying tweet]');
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/oembed.json?id={IDENTIFIER}&callback=loadx&dnt=true"></script>
<div class='twitter' onLoad='loadx().html'/></div>

[Mazian]

I've got a hunch that if it's empty it just returns an empty string (I think if it were returning null or undefined we'd be seeing "null" or "undefined" in place of the tweet), hence my checking its length, but of course it could be something else.

Turns out it's "something else": just a little JSON blob with none of the glue that displays a regular tweet.

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{"errors":[{"message":"Sorry, that page does not exist","code":34}]}

...but I know exactly zero JS, so I don't know where to go from there. Certainly not a big deal.

[KingRoyal]

It looks like the api call to twitter results in the loadx callback getting invoked with the result of the call. This might work

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function loadx(data) {
  if(data.error || data.errors) {
    document.write('[Error displaying tweet]");
  }
  else {
    document.write(data.html);
  }
}


[Mothra]

Guys, I need you to write out the whole thing, I have no idea what any of this is.

I've put this together in what I'm guessing is the right order, and I've pasted it in.

If this is wrong, please correct it and paste the whole thing so I can copy/paste it.

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<script type="text/javascript">
function loadx(data) {
  if(data.error || data.errors) {
    document.write('[Error displaying tweet]");
  }
  else {
    document.write(data.html);
  }
}
{"errors":[{"message":"Sorry, that page does not exist","code":34}]}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/oembed.json?id={IDENTIFIER}&callback=loadx"></script>
<div class='twitter' onLoad='loadx().html'/></div>