Tdesktop: Twitter preview cut off

[noiob]

The twitter preview on Telegram desktop is always cut off, even if it doesn't have to be (try tweets with multiple lines). The app doesn't do it and even if there are a few line breaks a tweet with an image is probably still even larger. It's just an annoyance.

Edit: I don't know if this should be a separate issue, but it'd also be nice if the preview didn't pick the very last image from a tweet with multiple images, since that one is probably the punch line or something

[stek29]

@noiob what about other apps (Android, iOS, Webogram...)

[noiob]

@stek29 Android and iOS don't cut off the preview. Webogram doesn't either. You can check it yourself, here's an example tweet: https://twitter.com/conradhackett/status/783029175791808512

[erisdev]

this is extremely annoying. tweets are guaranteed max 140 characters so imo they should never be cut off in the first place.

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[Remu-rin]

This is still an issue even for text-only tweets in single line. Seems like tdesktop wasn't updated for 280 characters in tweets, while Android client can show all 280 in preview.

[stek29]

Something tells me it's a feature, but I don't understand its purpose.
I've made a sample link: https://stek29.rocks/test_tdesktop_preview

Here's what TDesktop shows:

And here's what other clients (macOS native app in this case) show:

As you can see, server already does turn newlines into spaces when there are more than 9 lines, but TDesktop cuts preview on third line.

[stek29]

(cc @john-preston)

[john-preston]

@stek29 It's not a feature, but an absence of one. My Text renderer doesn't allow to place a float picture and let text float around the picture (take less space, while the picture is at the right, and after that start taking all the width.

So the simple solution was to avoid situations (in link previews) where there could be an image at the right and text is still going after the image for many lines. So the text is just limited to the possible image height. 🙈

[stek29]

@john-preston What if text just stays narrow and picture just stays on left?

[john-preston]

@stek29 You mean on the right?

[stek29]

@john-preston Yep, on the right, was a typo.

[john-preston]

@stek29 Not cool :( but perhaps it should be done that way for now..

[atomicthumbs]

Seconding the issue with it truncating tweets for no good reason after the Twitter 280 character change. Seems to cut them off at 175 characters, which is pretty arbitrary!

[john-preston]

@atomicthumbs I think it cuts them at four lines of text.

[salnkv]

I there any way to avoid cut off of 280 char tweets?

[sunscreem]

Adding the voices looking for 280 char limit and new line support,.

[atomicthumbs]

it has been four years and telegram will still happily cut the last four characters off a tweet in the middle of a word

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[atomicthumbs]

Nope. Still an issue. Just because y'all haven't fixed the bug yet doesn't mean it's no longer a bug.