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codeforgermany / click_that_hood

A game where users must identify a city's neighborhoods as fast as possible
http://click-that-hood.com
MIT License
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Facebook share button is broken #324

Closed epaulson closed 2 years ago

epaulson commented 2 years ago

The 'Share to Facebook' button is broken - does Code for Germany have access to the Facebook app admin settings?

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fnogatz commented 2 years ago

Actually, I would suggest removing the Share via Facebook/Twitter/... functionality at all. Code for Germany has no access to the Facebook app settings.

epaulson commented 2 years ago

I think you can make a pretty convincing case that the social shares were super-effective for spreading awareness of the game - see the 'You Don't Know Africa' experience, which is using the CTH codebase: http://www.davidbauer.ch/2013/12/01/youdontknowafrica-learnings-from-an-accidental-worldwide-internet-hit/

but I dunno if Facebook shares of game results would still as "viral" today as they were 10 years ago.

Facebook sharing has changed a lot since 2013 and maybe we're better off using the newer, simpler sharing setup that doesn't need a facebook "app id" and doesn't load any javascript from FB. That means we can't post things like "I solved the game in 1 minute and 19 seconds" but instead the button would just share the site, just like if someone copy/pasted the link into Facebook themselves.

If we really do want to restore the personalized "I solved the game in 1:23 time" message, we can register for a new app.

Personally, I'm fine if we don't have the personalized "I solved the game in 1:23 time" message, but I do think we should keep some kind of social share button, especially for Facebook, so we should at a minimum change the current FB share button to be the generic Facebook sharer.php link

fnogatz commented 2 years ago

Fixed via #333.