syndicate posts despite "Could not find a tweet to reply to."

[dissolve]

I often reply to websites but would like to post the reply to twitter, even though it is out of context.
Readers to follow the link to find out what i am talking about.

If I reply to a web-url and specifically tag it to syndicate to twitter, I would like it to still syndicate to twitter.

[dissolve]

As an example

https://www.brid.gy/log?start_time=1423487412&key=aglzfmJyaWQtZ3lyaAsSDVB1Ymxpc2hlZFBhZ2UiQWh0dHBzOi8vYmVuLnRoYXRtdXN0YmUubWUvcG9zdC8yMDE1LzIvOS8xL3NvY2lhbF9hcGlfdXNlcl9zdG9yaWVzDAsSB1B1Ymxpc2gYgICAgICAgAoM

[snarfed]

interesting idea! definitely sounds reasonable to support.

the catch is, people also often try to use bridgy publish to POSSE a reply to a tweet but get the in-reply-to link wrong, or accidentally use brid.gy/publish/twitter when they meant to use brid.gy/publish/facebook, etc. this check helps them. i'm not sure yet how to reconcile the two use cases.

[dissolve]

I think its better to assume the user is doing things correctly than to assume incorrect.

There are probably some situations that can be filtered. If a in-reply-to is a twitter URL or Facebook URL, then perform by current methods, otherwise ignore the in-reply-to and post as a standard note.

[snarfed]

i wish that was true! sadly, there are dozens of bridgy publish attempts every day that are wrong in various ways, and mismatched in-reply-to and bridgy link is one of the most common. (i can tell because invariably the person fixes it and makes another attempt with the right in-reply-to or bridgy link minutes later.)

[snarfed]

one possible workaround is to publish your post without the in-reply-to link, trigger bridgy publish (via either webmention or the form on your user page), then add the in-reply-to link after. annoying, but it'd work.

[dissolve]

thats what i have done in the past, the most annoying is when it is on an article which i edit via html rather than just text (on notes etc) and I don't have edit functionality for it yet, so "Editing" an article post is actually just changed the DB directly

[tantek]

My analysis of this use-case (POSSEing a reply to something that is not a tweet nor has a POSSE tweet copy) is here, and is roughly what I've implemented in Falcon's code to POSSE reply posts to Twitter: https://indiewebcamp.com/Twitter#original_lacks_POSSE_tweet

[snarfed]

@singpolyma also votes for this for reposts in #555.

[singpolyma]

For the accident use case. Could add force_any_context=1 optional param (similar to include_link) to enable this

[kylewm]

I'm -1 on this proposal, per #527 (comment)

It adds a lot of decision making (based on personal preferences) that Bridgy just isn't at the right layer to make.

[snarfed]

agreed, sorry. #527, definitely. i already regret the two user facing options bridgy publish does have, whether to include a link and (especially) whether to ignore formatting.

[kylewm]

to be clear, I'm -1 on this whole issue, not Stephen's force_any_context proposal specifically ;)

[snarfed]

related: https://snarfed.org/2015-11-29_keep-bridgy-publish-dumb

i'm doing a sweep and closing issues that i don't plan to do myself or accept a PR for, including this one. apologies for the bad news, or if this is a surprise. feel free to reopen if you feel strongly.