{"id":7377,"date":"2023-11-14T11:57:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T09:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/?p=7377"},"modified":"2023-11-14T12:00:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T10:00:34","slug":"url-of-a-federated-wordpress-post-reopens-the-post-in-the-app-instead-of-a-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/2023\/11\/14\/url-of-a-federated-wordpress-post-reopens-the-post-in-the-app-instead-of-a-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"URL of a federated WordPress post reopens the post in the app instead of a browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m using the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Automattic\/wordpress-activitypub\">ActivityPub plugin<\/a>\u00a0to enable following posts from my WordPress blog. The posts federate as excerpts with a URL pointing to the full post on my site.<\/p>\n<p>Tapping on that URL in the Android app only causes it to reload the post (excerpt) inside the app, instead of opening the URL in either webview or a browser as I&#8217;d expect it to.<\/p>\n<p>The (official) IOS app does open the URL a browser, as does Firefox on the desktop, which is why I suspect the Android app being at fault here.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know of a way to link my blog here it so that it opens in the app (which is a bit ironic), but here&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/deck\/@jani@marginaa.li\" rel=\"nofollow\">a deck link to the federated posts on mastodon.social<\/a>. My personal Mastodon account is on mastodon.social.<\/p>\n<p>Both my Android phone and Android tablet are affected, both are on Mastodon version 2.2.1. The phone is running Android 10 (with Samsung&#8217;s One UI 2.0), the tablet is on Android 11 (One UI 3.1).<\/p>\n<p>Below is a screen recording from the Android phone exhibiting the issue: the first tap of the URL opens the federated note in single view, and subsequent taps then just reload that same view.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>url_tap.mp4<\/summary>\n<p><video src=\"https:\/\/user-images.githubusercontent.com\/4244772\/282734030-0b31b4f2-f360-4a25-ae6e-c909fa5b371c.mp4\" muted=\"muted\" controls=\"controls\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><\/video><\/p>\n<\/details>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tapping on the URL of posts from my blog in the Android app only causes it to reload the post inside the app, instead of opening the URL in webview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8860],"tags":[12572,546,22971,10718,2965],"class_list":["post-7377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vianhallintajarjestelmat","tag-android","tag-firefox","tag-mastodon","tag-samsung","tag-wordpress","sijainti-github"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7377"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7383,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7377\/revisions\/7383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}