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RE: Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for March 5, 2020
Not related, but now your post looks very nice on the SteemSTEM app (see here). The latest app update made that possible. I hope you will like that (the display was somehow broken with the formerly deployed version).
Now back to the topic, the second item made me thinking... Again... This kind of things won't help.
It does look nice on SteemSTEM now. Thanks! Overall, I really like the look of that site. I'd use it more often, but I usually use steempeak so I can schedule my posts a day in advance.
On a related note, have you noticed that photos from SteemSTEM don't always get pulled into facebook shares? I have tried sharing some steemstem.io URLs through facebook, and wound up having to delete them and share a steempeak or steemit link because facebook wouldn't display the image with the link from SteemSTEM.
You can see an example if you go here - https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
And try to scrape this link - https://www.steemstem.io/#!/@carloserp-2000/what-did-lorentz-and-1582577933
Not sure what's going on, but for some reason, Facebook was able to scrape the photo when I shared the steemit link, but it couldn't scrape the photo when I tried to share the steemstem.io URL. I'd like to share SteemSTEM URLs to try to direct traffic to the site, but I think people tend to ignore links without photos.
I know the problem, and this would require to change entirely how the app routing works (the #! in the address is the problem). Historically, this app has been released by two developers who left more than 1.5 year ago. I took over from them and learned Javascript from scratch. Now, I am probably capable to develop something that works, but this means a lot of changes at the code level. The problem is that the current code is not really suitable for this.
I am planning to do so in the version 2.0 of the app, which I may start working on on a regular basis later this year. I apologize for this. I can't fix it now :(