Users are discussing an issue with Discourse’s Onebox feature displaying Facebook links in unexpected languages—German, Finnish, or even Russian—despite forum or server settings. Peter_Backgren reports that Facebook links on his forum show German login prompts, suspecting a possible Onebox bug or misconfigured OpenGraph/oEmbed tags. He notes his server is hosted in Frankfurt via DigitalOcean, though IP geolocation sometimes varies. Falco asks if server location affects language, while Canapin seeks a workaround to force English for Facebook oneboxes. undasein adds that their German-hosted forum in Spanish displays Facebook links in Russian, highlighting the inconsistency. The issue appears tied to how Facebook’s embed system interprets the requester’s location or headers, rather than Discourse configuration, and users are seeking deterministic behavior or workarounds.
A user posted some FB links on my forum but they popped up as German versions. Getting a “login request” as the link is bad enough but getting it in the wrong language is worse.
Don’t think I’ve seen this problem happen before. Haven’t updated Discourse for months either. Bad flu so will dig into this later…
Yeah, didn’t even have to post to see the difference in the preview to the right. Searching for “url link” stuff didn’t show me an easy why, so just wrote an entire post in the same go and let it fly.
So would the reason be that this is some Onebox stuff and Facebook has a messed up “OpenGraph” or “oEmbed” tag? Or is this something the actual site you visit has to do and Facebook just pops the login back anyway? Basically I’m just asking if this could be an Onebox bug where the algorithm for some reason uses the incorrect language?
Ok, flu, slow brain, should stop posting for tonight, does not improve things , sorry.
Well, it’s under DigitalOcean somewhere and most of the time it’s in Frankfurt so yes (139.59.213.172). For some reason one lookup now shows Australia .
Checked the Facebook page which has oEmbed but still, why would two pages out of a lot end up as German.
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