The links I sent are a.com, example.com, https://example.com and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_Shorthair. discobot stops replying and only sends a “checking on you” message a few minutes later (not in screenshot).
(Click on the screenshot to view whole dialogue. Can’t reprorduce on try.discourse.org because it doesn’t have discobot greeting)
Seems like a legit bug. From what I can see in the code, the onebox tutorial actually only accepts these 3 specific links, so its instructions are plain wrong. The code even mentions something about it:
# NOTE: This can be a bit brittle if people change the site text for
# discourse_narrative_bot.new_user_narrative.onebox.instructions, or if
# the user drops some other random link, but we accept that risk for now.
found_link =
@post.raw.match(
%r{https://en\.wikipedia\.org/wiki/(Inherently_funny_word|Death_by_coconut|Calculator_spelling)},
)
Now I know we’re not really investing more in the Discobot tutorial, but this is still iffy. What should we do @martin ? Could we at least add the Exotic_Shorthair link to the regex so at least the fallback works again?
(Moving this to bug regardless though.)
Crossposting this too Discobot Links are confusing in some translations
Yeah this is the fix, you can just add |Exotic_Shorthair to that post.raw.match regex
Done in