Question thread #139

[pauamma]

It's time for another question thread!

The rules:

- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer and in this comment thread.

Comments

[watervole]

How do I put photos that I've uploaded to DW into my posts!

It's driving me crazy. I'm getting the feeling that it may have worked at one time, and is now totally kaputt!
(Only some people can see photos I link to in Google photos, so I've been trying to upload some to DW instead)

I'm not entirely sure if this is the right place to ask, but there's nothing to tell you what is the right place...

[teres]

Are you using Rich Text or HTML? (Or, if you are using the beta version, either of these or Markdown?)

[watervole]

rich text (I've no idea what 'beta version' is)

[teres]

Once you can see your pictures at dreamwidth.org/file/list, I'd say the easiest way is to copy the name of the picture you want to have (like 11727.png for the first one I see on your journal). Then, in the RTE, you can use the "insert image" functions and type in "https://watervole.dreamwidth.org/file/" and then paste the name of the file. If you insert that, it ought to appear in the entry, in full size.

If this doesn't work... my first suggestion would be to go to the beta page (https://www.dreamwidth.org/beta), and turn on the top flag. (This page is for testing new things for Dreamwidth, and the new create entries page and inbox will eventually become default.) The reason I suggest that is that the RTE works a bit differently in the new page, and I know some bugs resolve there.

Hope this helps!

[pauamma]

For this question specifically: see https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=225 and https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=248 . To ask questions related to using Dreamwidth itself (including if the above 2 FAQs don't help, or to help you troubleshoot if you still have problems), go to https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/submit and fill in the required fields, while logged in to Dreamwidth if at all possible. And to get oriented to the site if needed, you can use https://www.dreamwidth.org/site/ (the site map).

Sorry... Revisiting OpenGraph

[ornoth]

I know it has come up multiple times in the past (e.g. https://github.com/dreamwidth/dreamwidth/issues/2206), but I need to ask... What's the likelihood of getting OpenGraph tags -- especially og:image -- implemented properly?

My main irritation is getting no hero images when sharing my DW posts to F*c*book, which worked fine back in the day on LJ. Even when FB scrapes a DW post itself and picks a suitable preview image, the broken OG:image:height|width tags in the entry still seem to cause FB to post entries without any image. E.g.:

<meta property="og:image:width" content="363"/>
<meta property="og:image:height" content="363"/>

with no actual og:image tag accompanying it, and no image anywhere in my post that is 363x363px, which seems to be a hardcoded value.

Sorry if I'm flogging a dead horse. Please let me know if this is somehow specific to my blogs, or if I'm missing some community consensus about it. And thanks so much for the questions thread!