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Also this addon doesn't work because of this bug, I think? https://github.com/rugk/mastodon-simplified-federation

Um... The behaviour is different now, I think, but still not good. It no longer takes me to the auth page, but if I'm logged in to aus.social, then going...

I don't think that I have permissions to reopen this issue.

Please, please, this one is so critical. I waste so much time visiting user pages of users who seem interesting who I can't remember following previously.

Yes, but I think that's not possible unless you assume a text width. Although I guess it would be reasonable to assume a fairly narrow text width, like 300px.

For reference, I this post:  is 659 characters, 116 words, and 23 lines at about 650px. So about 28 characters per line (it's ~50 characters for the full width...

OK, but it needs to be both, because of line wrapping. In your example, you get 9 lines with 9 characters, but I can also get 9 lines just by...

Is there a difference from the perspective of a user posting a link? Or is the type of preview that gets shown only dependent on the external website?

I think this would be better as a small banner over the reply-composition text box. Modals are super annoying. It is a relevant and useful thing to be informed about,...

Yes please! So useful for checking out users involved in a thread.