RE: Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for March 5, 2020
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 :(