Show HN: Sharingbuttons.io – Fast and easy social media sharing buttons
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But no, to your question, I don't think it is a new phenomenon or unwanted to mention related projects in comments. That's why I did not even consider that it might hurt op, thanks for chiming in. But yes, shariff should probably have its own thread, the ones I found are old and did get no attention. I'll re-submit it.
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[0] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
For one of my customers, I created a Facebook like area [0](visible on the bottom of the site) that shows the amount of likes. All required data is retrieved server-side and cached; to not expose end-users to Facebook tracking while still providing images and like count.
[0]: https://www.bakkerij-emmerix.be/be
It uses the user-supplied images by facebook (square and banner) with the option to supply a larger-version than Facebook returns.
It's not rocket science, but it makes the site load a lot faster and does not expose the user to tracking.
I have caching limit (Like Count = 3 minutes, Page info (name, images, etc.) = 1 hour).
Every time one of the resources is requested from the webserver; it's served from memory (initial retrieval on site start); and on access, it's checked how old the data is. If the data's older than the threshold, it's refreshed async and displayed on the next request.
Thanks for taking the time. :)
I don't remember ever clicking on a sharing button, except by accident, I always just copy paste the url, seems way more convenient.
Do you guys use them?
//In any case - awesome project!
Sharing buttons are a nuisance more than anything. at best, I'd say they're a tool to enable spying on users and should be categorically blocked (as standard uBlock₀ filter rules let you do with a single click).
They're actually most often used as a quick way for people to support a site. I've seen it at every company I've worked for - they're easily the most common way that our site is distributed socially.
Besides, sharing buttons which are just links (as in this post) don't aren't really that intrusive.
I think the ideal solution should be very similar to Android's sharing setup: One unified share button that can be sent to different apps or copied to clipboard. http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/nexu...
I'm not challenging you, I genuinely don't understand what you're talking about.
For example, youtube will often include extra garbage parameters for stuff like playlists - which the youtu.be shorturls omit, making them perfect for sharing videos.
You could either provide some sort of button to your browser to place this into the clipboard, or use an extension like pentadactyl to add a keyboard shortcut for it. (It's simply “y” by default - so copying URLs works like yanking in vim)
As with many things in life, it turns out that you won't get what you want unless you ask for it.
> It increases time on site,
My interpretation is that they increases time-on-site by pushing away people that aren't committed enough to wade through bloatware... and I don't understand how that works in the long-run.
Is it more profitable to push away customers so you get high-quality data on the core customers, and increasingly targeted advertising? How does that work out in the long-run when you need to replace lost customers?
On another note, I'm a huge fan of small utilities like this. Sometimes cruising HN it's easy to get it in my head that a project isn't worth doing unless it's a scalable VC business ready to submit to YC, or a community-supported FOSS. It's nice to see a little web utility doing its thing online.
A while ago I made a Share Buttons WP plugin with no tracking as well - can be found here https://github.com/privacore/sharebuttons-wp
The only change I would make is to remove the "Share on Twitter" text that is included with each large button on the website example. It's pretty much implied for the end user once they see the colors of the buttons and the icons.
For example, I shortened "Share on Twitter" to just "Twitter".
https://insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2014/02/20/gov-uk-social-sha...
Edit: the website is really awesome though, I love how it looks/work.
Anybody else reading this who's using them, would love to see your sites!
The other part says "Absolutely !".
Not sure how to respond.
I forget what it was, but I had the same idea while reading something on HN about a month ago, however, since I don't have an account on any of those services, I didn't bother trying to implement it. I was also a little pessimistic that some services wouldn't even have simple links like that so they could protect their interest in tracking, but it looks like they all have something. The only downside I can think of is that the URLs might disappear and a site owner would need to update their site to get sharing working again (assuming a new link is available). But I can't imagine that happening too often and it's not like anyone ever died because share buttons didn't work for a minute.