Removed count from Facebook button

BustByte / coronastatus

Anonymous crowd sourcing of COVID-19 symptoms all over the world (with public data sets)!

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Removed count from Facebook button #397

Closed clirette closed 4 years ago

clirette commented 4 years ago

PR for #395

michaelmcmillan commented 4 years ago

I feel the button brings social proof to the site, but I might be wrong. Maybe we should a/b test it before removing it?

michaelmcmillan commented 4 years ago

Should we completely remove it @fossecode?

fossecode commented 4 years ago

@michaelmcmillan didn't see your message before now. Yeah I liked the number as well, but we should not display a fake number. The button is still there, but without the number. If we want the number there, we should either use the button from Facebook, or use an API to get the count (from the backend, and cache it for a while).

Looks kinda weird when new sites were set up and had 10 submissions, but 1,7k Facebook shares