Hey, I’m trying to add a Mastodon profile verification link to my user profile pages: Verification You can verify yourself as the owner of the links in your profile metadata. For that, the linked website must contain a link back to your Mastodon profile. The link back must have a rel="me" attribute. The text content of the link does not matter. Here is an example: Mastodon I have forked the Clickable Social Icon Links on Profile TC and it displays the Mastodon link fine on the user profile pages, but since it renders as a handlebars template, it’s not visible in the ‘html/no javascript’ version and the Mastodon crawler won’t see it. I noticed that the HTML version has the following section: bartv Is there a way to add a line with the required link to this section from a theme component?

Ah, I didn’t explain myself well: users can enter their Mastodon URL as a custom field and I’d like to add a personal link for them to their own profile pages on my forum.

Basically you are suggesting that every site can verified all theirs users. So, because I have an account at mastodontti.fi I could add tags on my profile there and get verified. Well… that is not exacly idea behind verification on Mastodon way.

Not really, all it says is that you’re also that person on another site, it doesn’t go beyond that. GitHub is preparing something similar. But anyway, I’m not really here to debate this, just trying to find a solution to my question :slight_smile:

[image] Jay Pfaffman: And if you don’t want it to show then you can add css to hide that div No need to use CSS. It is just a link, so is enough.

The thing [image] Jakke Flemming: No need to use CSS. It is just a link, so is enough. Yes, but it needs to be accessible to a crawler. Ember/Handlebars scripts won’t work as they’re rendered by Javascript.

[image] Bart : you’re also that person on another site You are missing the point. Then you could use what ever public Mastodon-server for that. And you are using quite wide definition of user of some site. [image] Bart : I’m not really here to debate this Yes you are because it dictates if your solution is right. [image] Bart : it needs to be accessible to a crawler And it is. When there is empty or nill between opening and closing A-tag it works just fine, doesn’t show to visitors and doesnät need another CSS rule.

[image] Jakke Flemming: And it is. When there is empty or nill between opening and closing A-tag it works just fine, doesn’t show to visitors and doesnät need another CSS rule. Sorry but it’s not. Take a look at the link under the Mastodon icon on my profile page here: [image] If you inspect the element, you’ll see the rel=“me” code, but if you view the page source, or load the page using wget or some tool like that, it’s not there as it’s generated client-side. A crawler won’t see that code.

[image] Bart : A crawler won’t see that code If you say so… [image]

I know I can add HTML to the page footer to verify just myself, but I want my users to be able to enter their Mastodon URL as a custom field, have it displayed on their profile pages and use that to verify themselves too.

Trying to let users add Mastodon verification links, need some help

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) December 17, 2022, 8:32pm 2

Just add it to the footer, maybe. And if you don’t want it to show then you can add css to hide that div.

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