[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #29355: Add embed support for thinglink

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#29355: Add embed support for thinglink
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 Reporter:  peterchester           |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement            |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                 |   Milestone:  4.1
Component:  Embeds                 |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                 |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch 2nd-opinion  |     Focuses:
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Changes (by johnbillion):

 * keywords:  dev-feedback has-patch => has-patch 2nd-opinion
 * version:  4.0 =>
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review => 4.1


Comment:

 I'm moving this to the next major release milestone for review (as we tend
 to do for requests for oEmbed provider support).

 As per the [https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/design-decisions
 /#whitelisting-oembed-providers whitelsiting oEmbed providers checklist],
 it's important that oEmbed providers are well established and can be
 trusted in the long term. I'd hate to add support for an oEmbed provider,
 only for the service to go bust in six months time and have to be removed.

 ThingLink does appear to be quite popular, but I'm not convinced that it's
 established enough or mainstream enough to be included in core. Both of
 those metrics are subjective, of course, and I'm open to being persuaded.
 My concern is that we could probably come up with dozens of online
 services which have been around for four or five years and have several
 hundred thousand users. I don't think ThingLink is exceptional enough in
 that regard.

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