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Out of curiosity, does it matter how someone wants to share a link in order to be able to share it?

Presumably, a person’s mode of sharing should have zero impact on having a link to share.

Correct. We're leveraging localStorage to save answers across "pages" (using Vue). We could probably serialize / base64 encode the object we've saved and then let someone share it.

Ah, yeah. In that case, there is definitely a little hurdle to jump to make links to the results work, for sure.

That's a good point. I was just more curious than anything. Something we're working on now.

I think the way the question was worded raised my eyebrows a bit. It left me thinking that "sharing socially" would be turned into "let's include this social sharing widget that will track our users" (which always turns me off of a product) vs "let's make sure a shareable link works a single (or multiple) times for people who have the link".

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