What are 'Social Messages' in VW settings?

[Alfa1]

In option settings you can enable autolinks for Social Messages. What does this relate to in XF?
Why are the content types not just listed?

[pegasus]

The 'Social Messages' option does not correspond to anything in XenForo. It is a bug that the option is showing.

For the most part, the BB-Code parser (especially in XenForo) is not aware of the content-type that is being parsed in a standardized way. Thus, every content-type would have to be tested for explicitly, based on different factors for each one. For this reason, only generic types are covered:

• Wiki - we explicitly provide the complete wiki content to the parser
• Forum Posts - all forum posts and forum-based messages, provided the view that is sent to the parser has valid 'thread' and 'post' fields.
• Signatures - only works for signatures that appear in wiki comments, due to lack of information for other signatures
• Other Messages - anything that doesn't fit into one of these groups

[Alfa1]

That looks good, but why not add:
- Profiles
- Profile posts
- Resources
- Media

[pegasus]

- Profiles

I was not aware of any part of XenForo's profile itself that goes through parser.

The rest sound okay to me. I have logged a request to add support for these types, and to change the way this setting is processed so that an add-on can add support for other types if they want to.

[Alfa1]

IIRC profile fields are parsed. A link in there will turn into a hotlink.

[pegasus]

You are partly correct. I see now that the "About Me" field is parsed, but no other fields, and there is no option to enable parsing for custom fields.