** Changed in: friends-app (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) => (unassigned)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1182886
Title:
URL Shortener management : provider choice (ur1.ca) and characters
count (19 - 22 regarding t.co)
Status in friends-app package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Hello,
I have a question and a potential problem about URL shortening in
Friends :
For the moment only is.gd service can be used by default (if I'm not
wrong). I hope that in the future we will be able to define which one
we prefer in a list of many providers, like for example http://ur1.ca
Also, there is an issue when posting to Twitter with Friends and using
some URL shorteners :
Both is.gd and ur1.ca create short redirected links which address has
exactly 19 cgaracters.
But Twitter automatically transforms ALL links - even already
shortened by another provider - through its service t.co
Problem : t.co addres have 22 cgaracters...
So as Friends counts is.gd for 19, we can write a message up to
138-139-140 characters which will never succeed to be posted in
Twitter because with t.co link it will exceed the limit.
Solution : for Twitter messages, when a link is made and shortened by
is.gd (or in the future ur1.ca / other service), Friends should always
count it as 22 characters and let us know on the bottom right the real
number of remaining.
Of course this does not apply to Identi.ca which does not re-short the
links automatically (it can if we modify our options in Identi.ca, for
example wih ur1.ca) but it is not the default behavior so Friends
should count is.gd or ur1.ca as 19 characters (and non-shortened links
on the real number).
If the user configured Identi.ca to cross-post to Twitter, it's not
Friends problem, it's the user's.
But, last case, if on Friends the user wants to send a message in both
Twitter AND Identi.ca here there is a choice to make to decide how
Friends should act : I would say that we have to take the lower limit
and count every link as 22 characters, to be sure it will be posted
successfully in the 2 accounts.
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