Notices by ayo (ayo@social.ayco.io), page 2

@elk Come watch if you want to see me try to understand the code base ?

@elk Alright, I know we are cleaning up mentions somewhere... and I want to find and I'm going to do this link clean up beside that

Found the function that parses HTML content from the Status object, and we're going to add one transformation when the cleanup logic is triggered ;)

Uh, some invisible `<span>` elements are included at the end of the HTML content of a Status.... which means the link at the end of a post we see on Elk, is not the last child ?

The parse function seems not the best place as it is recursively going through node children... and I'm only concerned about the "last" not invisible child. ?

So close now... it's just that sometimes the preview card URL has a trailing `/` ?

Found that the preview card object generated by Mastodon is ALWAYS for the first link if there are multiple links in a post. This saves us work ? because the last link is never going to match the preview URL, and won't trigger the clean up logic

IT'S WORKING NOW, JUST NEED TO CLEAN THE CODE

stuff to note:
1. we check if preview card URL matches the shared link href attribute
2. we don't need to check for multiple links, because the last link will never match the preview URL in this scenario
3. we append the cleaned link to the preview card "provider name" so people will still find this info --> meaning, we don't actually remove anything, but instead move it into the preview card

Done. PR ready for review. Some screenshots

Removed the protocol part `https://` - it looks cleaner

a before and after

Taking this on first, because I think it is relatively small

This is gonna be a problem. ? HOW do we know when it is good for the context to leave it?

Here is the related issue I opened where I put the logic that will be applied, any ideas welcome!

https://github.com/elk-zone/elk/issues/981

? trying to code live - come let's talk @elk and #opensource https://www.twitch.tv/ayoayco

Elk coding later :) How do people feel about cleaning up links at the end of the post when there's already a preview card?
https://github.com/elk-zone/elk/pull/982

@elk Elk gives a ton of value to a lot of people. It pushes the whole decentralized social platform movement forward, and I see that as extremely liberating after years of being dampened by big tech centralized platforms that monetize people's data. I bet a lot of people recognize this too, I think @elk is really in the center of something bigger. The project is all history in the making.

I've just contributed to Elk. Consider supporting them too — every little helps! https://opencollective.com/elk

Congrats on the Astro 2.0 release! @astro syntax highlighting works on @elk :)

```astro
---
const hey = ‘hello’
---
<h1>{hey}</h1>
```

@liaizon @rmondello is it just going to sign us in automatically? What if we don’t want to sign in?