Instagram links

[G-Slev]

Morning folks. Instagram linking seems to have stopped working for some reason. It may be a problem at Instagram's end, but if I post links, I just get this:

View this content on Instagram

View this content on Instagram

 

[Neilski]

Hmm, not sure what's going on but will take a look...

 

[Neilski]

Nothing seems different at our end (but @Dave Stephenson may know more).
However, various news articles suggest that things may indeed have changed on the Instagram end.
For example: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...rew-users-of-its-embedding-api-under-the-bus/
Edit - see also: https://wptavern.com/upcoming-api-c...bed-links-across-the-web-beginning-october-24
I have no idea what we can do about this but we shall see.

 

[Neilski]

Pinging @Dave Stephenson in case he knows about our prospects for working around the strange choices that Instagram have made...

 

[G-Slev]

Pinging @Dave Stephenson in case he knows about our prospects for working around the strange choices that Instagram have made...

Boycott instagram! I guess they don't want people sharing content outside of their platform, which is a shame. There is a real gap in the market for a decent photography platform allowing the sharing of images outside of that platform. Flickr used to be it, but it's pretty dead these days.

 

[Neilski]

Boycott instagram! I guess they don't want people sharing content outside of their platform, which is a shame. There is a real gap in the market for a decent photography platform allowing the sharing of images outside of that platform. Flickr used to be it, but it's pretty dead these days.

Yeah, I'm not too impressed with what they're doing. I'm no expert on this stuff, but on a quick google it doesn't seem like there's any trivial way to make it work the way it used to.
However, I guess they need their content to be paying the bills somehow and maybe they concluded that the old scheme wasn't doing it for them.