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Mastodon embed results in poorly formatted post lacking adequate styling #34453

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pauljacobson opened this issue Dec 5, 2023 · 1 comment
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Mastodon embed results in poorly formatted post lacking adequate styling #34453

pauljacobson opened this issue Dec 5, 2023 · 1 comment
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[Feature] Publicize Now Jetpack Social, auto-sharing [Feature] Social Media Integration Tools for connecting and integrating your site with social media platforms. [Platform] Simple [Plugin] Jetpack Issues about the Jetpack plugin. https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/ [Plugin] Social Issues about the Jetpack Social plugin [Pri] High [Status] Invalid [Status] Priority Review Triggered The guild in charge of triage has been notified of this issue in Slack [Type] Bug When a feature is broken and / or not performing as intended

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Quick summary

When embedding a Mastodon post using the post link, the resulting embed contains oversized logos and icons, in addition to the embedded post text. It looks like CSS is not being applied correctly to the elements of the embed.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open a post or page in a WordPress.com site (I tested a free site)
  2. Paste the link of a Mastodon post (I used this link)
  3. Observe the formatting

A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen.

When embedding a Mastodon post, I'd expect to see an embed that more closely resembles the source post in terms of the proportions of the elements in the embed.

What actually happened

Instead, this is what occurs:

CleanShot 2023-12-05 at 16 36 04

Impact

Most (> 50%)

Available workarounds?

No but the platform is still usable

Platform (Simple and/or Atomic)

Simple

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Browser: Firefox Developer Edition v121.0b6 and Microsoft Edge
OS: macOS 14.1.2
@pauljacobson pauljacobson added [Type] Bug When a feature is broken and / or not performing as intended [Feature] Publicize Now Jetpack Social, auto-sharing [Plugin] Jetpack Issues about the Jetpack plugin. https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/ Needs triage Ticket needs to be triaged [Feature] Social Media Integration Tools for connecting and integrating your site with social media platforms. labels Dec 5, 2023
@github-actions github-actions bot added [Status] Priority Review Triggered The guild in charge of triage has been notified of this issue in Slack [Plugin] Social Issues about the Jetpack Social plugin [Platform] Simple [Pri] High labels Dec 5, 2023
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jeherve commented Dec 5, 2023

Those embeds are part of WordPress itself; they're not provided by WordPress.com or Jetpack. This specific issue is currently tracked here:
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/58120

@jeherve jeherve closed this as completed Dec 5, 2023
@jeherve jeherve added [Status] Invalid and removed Needs triage Ticket needs to be triaged labels Dec 5, 2023
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[Feature] Publicize Now Jetpack Social, auto-sharing [Feature] Social Media Integration Tools for connecting and integrating your site with social media platforms. [Platform] Simple [Plugin] Jetpack Issues about the Jetpack plugin. https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/ [Plugin] Social Issues about the Jetpack Social plugin [Pri] High [Status] Invalid [Status] Priority Review Triggered The guild in charge of triage has been notified of this issue in Slack [Type] Bug When a feature is broken and / or not performing as intended
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