Future of Post Sharing Options?

crazycells

hi @oplik0 , do you mean something like this "share" button? Actually, this would solve all the problems... Because it opens up all the options including text sharing and it is better than what I proposed...

Previously, I asked julian for permalink addition because of mobile post sharing issues... In general, I do not think there is any problem on desktop since copying the permalink is very easy on desktop. But, adding the button you proposed will solve this issue in a better way.

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/10566

oplik0

@crazycells said in Future of Post Sharing Options?:

hi @oplik0 , do you mean something like this "share" button? Actually, this would solve all the problems... Because it opens up all the options including text sharing and it is better than what I proposed...

Yup, it's a pretty nice API, though as I mentioned it still has issues with support on desktops despite being in the works for 7 years now (which is largely because Windows doesn't have good story around sharing, and even after a few minutes of googling and even trying to get bing chat to spit something out I have no idea how the hell you integrate with it when writing a native app. EDIT: after writing this I remembered that it was added when MS was pushing UWP, and searching specifically for UWP share integration actually yielded results. So you can guess why no one is using it [tbf you can now make win32 apps use this API, but only because MS allowed adding UWP components to standard apps, and it takes that to interact with the new API])

crazycells

@oplik0 I do not think desktop support is a problem though... Because it is already quite easy to copy / paste links on desktop... I never used share button on desktop, I directly copied the permalink...

But things are slightly different/harder on mobile...

<baris>

cagatay

@baris i have just fb and twitter how can i add others (wp, telegram and just link etc.)

<baris>

Others are not built yet, I was just doing some mockups Might add some common ones in 3.6.0

<baris>

Added whatsapp, linkedin and telegram since those were the easiest ones. Messenger and Mastodon are more

crazycells

@baris said in Future of Post Sharing Options?:

Added whatsapp, linkedin and telegram since those were the easiest ones. Messenger and Mastodon are more

thanks.

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crazycells

@baris is this only for desktop? I cannot see the options on the phone?

<baris>

They are are available on mobile as well

crazycells

I cannot see them on safari (ios)

crazycells

hmm... I see them when I am logged in... but I believe it should be available at all times?

<baris>

Yeah they are visible to guests as well maybe cached?

phenomlab

@baris said in Future of Post Sharing Options?:

Added whatsapp, linkedin and telegram since those were the easiest ones. Messenger and Mastodon are more

Would be equally great to get an OAUTH plugin that works with LinkedIn too...

<baris>

@phenomlab the guys maintaining https://github.com/auth0/passport-linkedin-oauth2 need to publish it to npm, I tried updating the linkedin plugin but it is using outdated dependencies and doesn't work. I've made a PR that updates the plugin to 3.2.0 so most of the work is done, https://github.com/joe1chen/nodebb-plugin-sso-linkedin-oauth2/pull/9/files

phenomlab

@baris many thanks. I'll see if I can persuade them to merge.

cagatay

@baris Did you do this update with 3.5.2? Because I still only have Facebook and Twitter share links.

<baris>

It will be available in 3.6.0