hono4kami

Lemmy.world definitely shows up a lot. But I wonder what could still be improved. The amount of content, I wonder? Not an expert on SEO, but SEO-wise lemmy is doing great, no?

Good one

That's a good idea. I'm still adding things to be clear

Should I cross post this to !fediverse@lemmy.world?

PLEASE WE NEED IT

(make a separate post if it's really long)

Not really reaching, both the song The Downward Spiral and Closer has the same leitmotif, and I like it so much. Makes me wonder why I forgot about this one

I think I know the culprit, see my comment here: https://slrpnk.net/post/16303676/12737230

The fix seems to be just merged few days ago. Hopefully this time it's actually fixed

My Lemmy instance actually can't fetch YouTube thumbnail, so I actually have to put it manually lol.

See http://www.get-youtube-thumbnail.com/

If you don't put a whopping 1MB of JavaScript in your website, you're doing web development wrong.

/s

See the other reply: seems that it was caused by Lemmy backend only fetches the first 512kb of the HTML, meanwhile YouTube puts bunch of JavaScript in the beginning of the HTML

Here's the fix that was only merged couple days ago apparently, https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5266

Crazy, right

Also, this is a good tip in general:

You can't fetch title and thumbnail for YouTube links that starts with youtu.be. This applies not only in Lemmy, but other websites too, for example Twitter (even before Elon's era).

This is, IMO due to the link doesn't really contain HTML and OpenGraph metadata. It only redirects you. If you try cURL-ing the youtu.be link, you will see that it doesn't have a response body, only some header including Location header that will tell you where to redirect. The response code itself is 301.

I'm noticing that YouTube video's thumbnail and title can't be fetched somehow. In theory this should work, right? See the post and my comment below:

https://slrpnk.net/post/16303676

https://slrpnk.net/post/16303676/12737095