You can embed Kinja comments in a Post...but how?

"RyanFrew" (ryanfrew)
04/27/2016 at 10:38 • Filed to: Testing

I was reading an !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! today, and I came across something interesting: A little bit less than halfway down, the author embedded a comment in her article. The article is from ‘13, so maybe this functionality has been removed. If so, that’s disappointing, because it looks really slick. I lifted the source code directly. Going to see if it works. I assume it will not, since I’m just pasting into the HTML editor here:

Edit: In the visual editor, I’m able to see it. Upon hitting ‘Publish’, though, I lose the content

Edit 2: I’m a dumbass and gave it waaaayyy too much thought. It’s as simple as pasting the link into the body, as Daily Drives a Dragon suggested. Why in the world don’t they do this on the FP with COTD?

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DISCUSSION (14)

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > RyanFrew
04/27/2016 at 10:43

Maybe paste the link? I have no idea.

RyanFrew > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
04/27/2016 at 10:45

Hahahahaha holy shit, you’re right. I gave it way too much thought. Let’s see if I can edit this post and make it work.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > RyanFrew
04/27/2016 at 10:47

Hey! the avatar gif even plays!

BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. > RyanFrew
04/27/2016 at 10:47

I think the COTD yesterday did use that.

RyanFrew > BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest.
04/27/2016 at 10:49

Just looked - you’re right. Maybe it’s actually new functionality? Or I’m crazy for never noticing this before?

Urambo Tauro > RyanFrew
04/27/2016 at 10:55

I was playing around with this last night after seeing it for the first time in Jalopnik’s COTD , and I couldn’t duplicate it. I composed a post much like yours, asking how to make it work. I saved that post as a draft, and was going to publish it today with the tag “KINJA HELP” to attract a response.

You beat me to it, and looking at my draft now, it seems to have corrected itself overnight. So it looks like we have to do is paste the raw link, and Kinja will now format it automatically.

scoob > RyanFrew
04/27/2016 at 11:01

Let’s see, will it work in comments?

http://jalopnik.com/penis-like-tha…

Edit: Nope.

Urambo Tauro > RyanFrew
04/27/2016 at 11:05

I just noticed that the Lifehacker article you were looking at is an older one.

So this new formatting must be retroactive as well. It used to be that adding a raw link to your post would format it as a preview, sometimes with an image. But it did not contain those other details like the timestamp or original post title.

It looks like all those old links are now formatting to this new design. I like it.

RyanFrew > Urambo Tauro
04/27/2016 at 11:14

The only critique I’d add is that it’d be cool if you could recommend an embedded comment.

Urambo Tauro > RyanFrew
04/27/2016 at 11:18

Only by clicking through.

Sometimes I do that to winners after their COTD win has already been published, just to increase its posterity within that original post’s comment section.

Rooo sez BISH PLZ > scoob
05/14/2016 at 18:48

I’ve just been struggling with this elsewhere. I can’t even get it to post a related link in the actual post (and I’ve tried in both Firefox and Chrome, so I’m not thinking it’s a browser problem).

Help ...?

scoob > Rooo sez BISH PLZ
05/15/2016 at 12:20

That’s odd, you should just be able to copy the link and paste it in the post. But hey, Kinja is Kinja.

Rooo sez BISH PLZ > scoob
05/15/2016 at 14:42

You’re absolutely right that I should be able to.

However, we discussed here in depth yesterday what I can do (embed YouTube and Tweets), can’t do (embed other regular links), what I’ve tried, in which browsers I’ve tried it, and what HTML I’ve looked at .

I came here precisely because none of that has worked.

Any other suggestions?

scoob > Rooo sez BISH PLZ
05/15/2016 at 15:28

That’s really weird. Apparently you can make a post with a certain tag but the name escapes me right now (I think “Kinja Help” or “Helpdesk”? If all else fails, “Kinja’d” might do it.) and some Kinja coders will probably see it. It’s happened in the past.

If not, maybe you could email them . Not the best solution, I know, but I can’t think of anything else.