s9e Media Sites 2.18.3

[Chromaniac]

Yeah I have been facing this issue for a few days. Most of the time tweets don't load on both of my connections. But they work on vpn.

This is from X side. You can verify by loading the embed page of a tweet.

I do wonder if it's possible to use xenforo's internal oembed based code for Twitter alone coz it fetch post content and shows that when embeds don't work. But that implementation is jerky and creates too much page shift

 

[JoshyPHP]

I can confirm that I can't load tweets on my home connection. I can load them through a VPN.

I dug into it and the reason they don't load is that the service that's supposed to return the tweet's content (it's retrieved in JavaScript as JSON) is misconfigured. Their SSL certificate is bad. I haven't been able to check in what way the SSL certificate fails the verification. That's the kind of service that's geographically distributed, so depending on your IP you may hit a "good" server or a "bad" one.

503 hostname doesn't match against certificate

 

[Deleted member 184953]

Works fine here...

Senegal.

 

[Estone]

If I look at the network tab of the browser I see this error:

https://cdn.syndication.twimg.com/tweet-result?id=1846139938170916916&lang=nl&token=4h3tiae8l9x&unfwoj=l8zoj106ow2&mev43e=gu8bsaca9mu&e7bs8l=1ai8gvo9ofsd&cliovf=d49f8d3ot4ki&2hk85n=1epac856yqyq&4irljd=4j8d27mw8kbw

It says "Error 503 hostname doesn't match against certificate"

Does anybody understand what is going on here?

 

[Estone]

I can confirm that I can't load tweets on my home connection. I can load them through a VPN.

I dug into it and the reason they don't load is that the service that's supposed to return the tweet's content (it's retrieved in JavaScript as JSON) is misconfigured. Their SSL certificate is bad. I haven't been able to check in what way the SSL certificate fails the verification. That's the kind of service that's geographically distributed, so depending on your IP you may hit a "good" server or a "bad" one.

503 hostname doesn't match against certificate

Ah, sorry, missed your reply...
Thanks for your update.

So, who offers this service? Is it a third party or does it belong to x?

 

[JoshyPHP]

AFAICT some of X's internal servers/services are misconfigured. The public HTTP servers (the caching servers that X uses, which may belong to a CDN provider) work fine but their authoritative source (the private servers, owned by X, that have access to X's database) is unavailable.

 

[michalcabala]

All tweets are not available. Czech Republic

 

[Estone]

Any news on this?
Is it mentioned (on X) somewhere? Are they working on it?

 

[JoshyPHP]

I haven't even looked for information. The errors I'm seeing are the kind of errors that automatically floods the Site Reliability Team with warning emails. If they have any Site Reliability Engineers, they're already aware of it and they should be working on it.

In the meantime, you can try refreshing this icon to see what kind of failure rate you're getting in your region: https://cdn.syndication.twimg.com/favicon.ico

 

[aLDi_KT]

Tweets still not available. Seems it concerns to sites in Europe.

 

[Estone]

So... any solution(s)?
Doesn't seem like they are in a hurry to solve this.

Is there a workaround maybe to embed tweets some other way?

 

[Chromaniac]

they have more or less stabilized for me here in india. haven't seen a dead embed in last 24 hours or so. so i guess someone noticed the issue and some fixes have been issued or maybe it's just a random coincidence happy accident!.

 

[JoshyPHP]

No, not really. It's working reliably for me now, so I'd expect it to be fully back in a couple of hours.

 

[Estone]

Oh, wait... it's working again! (for mow)

 

[StryGuardian]

I've just noticed this thread. @StryGuardian What exact versions of XFMG and s9e/MediaSites do you use? Make sure you have the latest version of the add-on, and if you're still experiencing that issue, describe the exact steps to be able to reproduce it. I've just tried on my test boards and I couldn't reproduce it.

I am running 2.16.8, which I believe is the latest version. I've done further testing and it seems like this only happens when "Enable full-width embeds by default" is checked. If I uncheck it, then the issue resolves itself. So it has something to do with that setting. But it doesn't seem like that setting should affect the Media Gallery addon.

 

[JoshyPHP]

So it has something to do with that setting.

That's correct, I can confirm I see the same behaviour on my local test board with full-width embeds, on XenForo 2.3.2 / XFMG 2.3.2. I'll look into this ASAP.

 

[vicos]

Hi, I'm at PHP 7.2 for the moment, so I can't install the latest MediaSites. I have v 2.7.11. Is there someway I can patch that version so it works with the Twitter.com to x.com url change?

 

[nodle]

@JoshyPHP do you know of any issues with uninstalling your add-on? I removed it this morning and now I can no longer auto embed Twitter tweets.

XF 2.3 Thread 'Twitter (X) no longer auto embedding?'

Nov 9, 2024

Just wondering what I am missing here. I was using S9 media sites for my media, but uninstalled it this morning and removed the files. Then I rebuilt the caches for embeds. But when I copy and paste a link from Twitter it only shows the link and no longer auto embeds (I did check auto embeds under the admin and it is enabled). But when I make a test post on Xenforo's test forum it works just fine. What am I missing here?

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[JoshyPHP]

Hi, I'm at PHP 7.2 for the moment, so I can't install the latest MediaSites. I have v 2.7.11. Is there someway I can patch that version so it works with the Twitter.com to x.com url change?

I think you'd need to enable development mode on your board, edit the media site and also edit the Parser.php file to modify the regexps so they support x.com. So in theory (I can't actually verify it) yes.

@JoshyPHP do you know of any issues with uninstalling your add-on? I removed it this morning and now I can no longer auto embed Twitter tweets.

No, the uninstallation should restore the original media sites. If you keep having issues with tweets, post the URL you that you tried to embed and I'll take a look at it. Be sure to post it in a [code] block so that it doesn't get embedded here.

 

[nodle]

No, the uninstallation should restore the original media sites. If you keep having issues with tweets, post the URL you that you tried to embed and I'll take a look at it. Be sure to post it in a [code] block so that it doesn't get embedded here.

This was one. With your add-on installed it unfurls just fine and embeds itself. After I uninstalled the addon it would just display the link. The strange part here is testing it on Xenforo it renders just fine. Uninstalling your addon makes some of the Twitter embeds display fine, while others only display links. Then I re-installed your addon and everything works fine again. I have never made any changes to your addon under ACP so I know it was using the default Xenforo fallback if it gets uninstalled.

https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1855264548753641933