Internal inline oneboxes in the Discourse preview feature (on discourse.gnome.org only)

[Thomas_DC]

Hi

Could someone help for this pb which does not occur on meta.discourse.org please?

Internal featured-links in the preview feature

Internal featured-links in the Discourse preview feature (#1433) · Issues ·...

Need you me to copy/paste here what I said there?

It seems that it’s not a recent fix, which would be available on meta.discourse.org since not long ago, but not still on gitlab.gnome.org.

Could you confirm that, please:
gitlab.gnome.org has Discourse 3.3.3 yet. meta.discourse.org had an older version in april 2024, isn’t it?

[Thomas_DC]

Hi @Moin

Why did you replace featured-link by onebox tag?

I used one-boxes in this msg, but that was not a demonstration.
And I just checked it, there is no pb on discourse.gnome.org with one-boxes, only with featured-links.

[Moin]

Sorry, maybe I misunderstood your problem. I had the impression you were talking about inline oneboxes.

Quote from the second link:

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a new Topic on https://discourse.gnome.org/.
2. Type some text, and without going to the next line, add an external link, like Automatic cross-links. In the preview pane, it should appear as Automatic cross-links - feature - Discourse Meta.
3. Still without going to the next line, add an internal link, like Flag posts as a solution in the Community category - Site Feedback - GNOME Discourse. In the preview pane, it should appear as https://discourse.gnome.org/t/flag-posts-as-a-solution-in-the-community-category/20236.

A featured link is added to a topic when you paste a link into the title field of a topic before writing anything else. Then the link is added next to the topic title, which is also visible in topic lists.

@Discourse

When you post a link in the same line as text and it is replaced by something more readable than the URL, it’s an inline onebox.

@Discourse

Inline Oneboxing

With the enable inline onebox on all domains site setting enabled (this feature is enabled by default), pasting the link inline with the text will replace the raw link with the title of the page, like this Understanding Discourse Trust Levels

like this https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/

Because your steps to reproduce mention typing text before posting the link, I changed the tag. I will gladly change the tag back if you meant featured links and not inline oneboxes.

Then the answer is probably simple: Featured links don’t work for internal links. So you cannot create a featured link for the forum you are currently posting to.

@Discourse

Limitations

• The ability to use featured links depends on the site’s settings. If you don’t see the option, it may not be enabled for your community
• You cannot use a link from the same Discourse instance as a featured link

[Thomas_DC]

@Moin

I had the impression you were talking about inline oneboxes.

You were right. I didn’t have the right vocabulary.
Maybe I was misled by the First Onebox badge.

Thank you for the correction and for all the explanations.