Share links with fragment identifiers broken for Twitter/X

[TimWeberRE100]

Unfortunately it is not possible to post links to twitter/X that contain fragment identifiers (#) because of the way that hashtags work on their website. This means that share links (including shortened share links based on Github Gist) cannot be directly shared to Twitter/X (one workaround is to just use another URL shortening service). Is it feasible to include share links that use a query parameter (?) instead of the #?

[na9da]

Hi @TimWeberRE100

Not sure if something changed recently on X, but here's an example of a tweet with #share links

https://x.com/SatelliteSci/status/1537308160930639872

One other option is to use the story url feature which is meant to create vanity urls like /story/coolstory.

To do this you need to set the following option in your config.json

"storyRouteUrlPrefix": "https://my-map.com/share/s-"

after that you can access your share URLs like https://my-map.com/story/<short-id>

basically, to resolve /story/short-id, Terria takes the short-id and appends it to the storyRouteUrlPrefix and fetches the share JSON from there.

So an alternate URL for the link in that tweet would be this:
https://maps.dea.ga.gov.au/story/w256tDNTchZcRsoyM2CerdxnDO1