Twitter refuses to display the nice preview card for substack links, but this a silly ban that is easily defeated with some basic understanding of how the internet works
Important thing I forgot to mention: I wanted to design this tool with a "permacomputing" mentality, with the expectation that it will fail one day
I didn't want a bunch of dead links around the web. Best I could come up with is that the proxied url contains the original URL inside of it. So you can in theory recover it even if the proxy server is down.
Is Twitter in the right in censoring substack links? Is it justified?
I didn't really delve into this too much. I think it is ultimately within Twitter's rights to do this. They are a private company. They have competitors who clone its product and want to poach its users. Twitter is doing what it needs to to survive. I think this is all true and fine.
But that doesn't mean we have to put up with it. I don't like this feature/limitation of twitter, and I don't like the competing services (they don't have the people I want to follow etc). They're well within their rights to try and clamp down on external links, just as I am well within my rights to use the affordances given to me by the technology of the internet. I just want to talk to friends about their essays, and mine, and I want it to look nice. And as long as I have the option to do so, I will take it.
(and maybe sanity check with another article that isn't already in there. Now that I've put the covid article in there it should be cached/it only gets added once)
yeah there's some bug apparently, only affects the new version!! still looking into it.. some kind of artifact of it running on my server vs glitch. Hoping to resolve that by monday. Thank you for the report 🙏
Omar - it somehow took me until now to come across this great tool. Thank you for building this. It is super helpful. Especially for someone like me who doesn't know how to code.
As I'm not very HTML savvy, to put it mildly, I cannot understand the do it yourself directions. Any chance you could re make a little app? It is appreciated.
Important thing I forgot to mention: I wanted to design this tool with a "permacomputing" mentality, with the expectation that it will fail one day
I didn't want a bunch of dead links around the web. Best I could come up with is that the proxied url contains the original URL inside of it. So you can in theory recover it even if the proxy server is down.
Is Twitter in the right in censoring substack links? Is it justified?
I didn't really delve into this too much. I think it is ultimately within Twitter's rights to do this. They are a private company. They have competitors who clone its product and want to poach its users. Twitter is doing what it needs to to survive. I think this is all true and fine.
But that doesn't mean we have to put up with it. I don't like this feature/limitation of twitter, and I don't like the competing services (they don't have the people I want to follow etc). They're well within their rights to try and clamp down on external links, just as I am well within my rights to use the affordances given to me by the technology of the internet. I just want to talk to friends about their essays, and mine, and I want it to look nice. And as long as I have the option to do so, I will take it.
Hi Omar,
Thanks for the great tool. I've been using it a lot on twitter.
I tried out the non-glitch replacement just now, and unfortunately it doesn't work. This is the error I received.
Error: SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<', "
I was trying to share this link:
https://kittenbeloved.substack.com/p/people-want-the-covid-vaccine-to
Ok, can you try again now? It should be working, here's that covid article: https://api.omarshehata.me/substack-proxy/articles/kittenbeloved-substack-com-p-people-want-the-covid-vaccine-to.html
(and maybe sanity check with another article that isn't already in there. Now that I've put the covid article in there it should be cached/it only gets added once)
Seems to work, thanks!
yeah there's some bug apparently, only affects the new version!! still looking into it.. some kind of artifact of it running on my server vs glitch. Hoping to resolve that by monday. Thank you for the report 🙏
Thanks for this! Just finding myself frustrated that I couldn't get tweets to look right for Substack.
Omar - it somehow took me until now to come across this great tool. Thank you for building this. It is super helpful. Especially for someone like me who doesn't know how to code.
Thanks for building this tool!
This link doesn't work anymore. http://substack-proxy.glitch.me/
As I'm not very HTML savvy, to put it mildly, I cannot understand the do it yourself directions. Any chance you could re make a little app? It is appreciated.
can you try this? https://api.omarshehata.me/substack-proxy/
And what about sign-up pages? It doesn't work on your tool :)
Hi, THANKS FOR YOUR TOOL. May I ask if we can shorten the link? With tools like Bitly or TinyUrl, will that affect anything?