The twitter module, which forms the basis for this code, already provides all these features and more.

Please explain why the identica module is needed (using this issue). Until there's a good motivation, the project home page is locked from editing.

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greggles
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And I forgot to say some of the most important things:

* Thanks for contributing to Drupal
* Please understand that this request is made to help keep in line with the principles of the Drupal project (collaboration)
* Module duplication (without difference) is one of the biggest problems for users of drupal.org

There are many places where you can help improve Drupal, but creating a duplicate module is not helpful.

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mcielen commented

The twitter module out of the box does not support identica. You have to search and replace every occurence of twitter.com with identi.ca/api
Apart from that issue, there's no possibility out of the box to post to both twitter and identi.ca
Imho a separate module makes it easier for everyone to choose between twitter and/or identica.

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eaton commented

Hi, mcielen!

As one of te maintainers of Twitter module, I wanted to poke my head in and clarify a couple of things. The Twitter module's current official release (2.0) doesn't support Identica, but the feature was added about a month and a half ago and will be part of the 2.1 release that I hope to roll this week.

If you download the dev version, the ability to use Identica (or any Twitter-API compatible microblogging service) is definitely there. (Here's the issue thread where it was suggested, the commit message, and a screenshot of the configuration page.)

I have no problem with the code from Twitter module being used as the basis for another project, and that's one of the strengths of GPL! The problem, though, is that the 2.1 release of Twitter has been delayed while we ironed out fixes to a couple of bugs involving API timeout handling, etc. As those bugs are fixed in Twitter module, and additional features in the pipeline get rolled out, Identica will either fall out of sync, or you'll need to play catch-up to keep Identica module bug-free.

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walkah commented

what eaton said.

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eaton commented

...Also, if it turns out that you're ironing out bug fixes FASTER than we are, then WE'LL have to go to the extra effort of grabbing YOUR code. And I'm tremendously lazy. ;-)

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Status: Active » Fixed

I think this is "fixed."

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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eaton commented

Just a quick reference for those who find the issue -- v2.1 and later of the Twitter moduel officially support using Identi.ca or any other api-compatible site as a backend.