eramdam / BetterTweetDeck

A browser extension to improve TweetDeck with a lot of features
https://better.tw
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Replace Twitter links with vxTwitter #871

Closed alvgalrus closed 1 year ago

alvgalrus commented 1 year ago

Greetings, I know this is in a frozen status, but the QoL improvement of this simple change would be massive for me.

Lately I find annoying that when I'm sharing tweets to Telegram, it doesn't provide a preview any more. I'd rather have my friends know what they're opening before actually clicking.

I don't know if it has anything to do with the new API policies, but I found that vxTwitter fixes the preview issue.

So my proposal is to add a config toggle to replace Twitter's URL with vxTwitter's when doing Tweet timestamp > Right click > Copy link, so instead of https://twitter.com/<username>/status/<tweet_id>, it copies https://vxtwitter.com/<username>/status/<tweet_id>.

The above would be enough for me, but alternatively and for better privacy, a custom hostname could be specified in a text input (as vxTwitter can be self-hosted), so it would copy https://<custom_preview_provider>/<username>/status/<tweet_id> instead.

Thank you for your consideration...

P.S. ... and the hard work you put on this, eramdam, as I've been a long-standing TweetDeck user and BetterTweetDeck is the last actual "ultimate Twitter experience" we have left.