Community post
Allow embedded github gists
Proposal
Allow for github gists to be embedded in the articles by including the embed snippet whenever a link to a gist is posted in the article text. So instead of automatically generating a hyper link from the URL, it would translate to a script tag with gist embed
Any occurance of a link like this in the article
https://gist.github.com/DennisAlund/62045dd3881151dc95865cd174677da5
would be translated to this in the formatted preview
<script src="https://gist.github.com/DennisAlund/62045dd3881151dc95865cd174677da5.js"></script>
Mockups / Examples
Benefits
First of all, it's pretty neat to embed github snippets. But in fairness, it's not too much of a trouble to just paste the code in markdown code way using ```
The real issue here is that steemit articles can't be updated after 7 days, and since code is code, it is often that readers report issues with snippets that has been hiding in plain sight until someone actually tested it out. For these reasons, steemit is not very well suited for posting code snippets and engage discussions around them.
By allowing embedded github gists, we'd be able to get around the 7 days-no-update issue by still being able to at least update the code within a gist.
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or for the worst situation maybe we can make post that only contain github gist for a whole steemit article? :D
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I like embedded Gist code listings too. :heart:
I know, right. Steemit is awesome, but you know what's better than awesome? Super awesome! And that's what steemit would be with embedded gists. Super awesome.
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STOPJust searched this up on how I could do this on my page... Will have to just provide a link with a photo for now I guess.
I am new to Steemit and I am a developer, is any way I can help with this feature? I need it for my posts 😁
Yes, please do get engaged in the development of the platform.
I've been too busy to write and engage properly on the online communities lately. So I haven't had time to follow along with the latest development and updates of milestones, so please check the repo and join the conversation: https://github.com/steemit/condenser
Is this feature live? If so can you please show me how?
Because below gist is not getting rendered on preview!
https://gist.github.com/pradeeprajr93/b95384cc2b7591969b7aa5f32a6984e6