Sharing Component does not pass text to Facebook App, or text in message + file to Facebook or Instagram App

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Sharing Component does not pass text to Facebook App, or text in message + file to Facebook or Instagram App #495

Open JoshESheldon opened 9 years ago

JoshESheldon commented 9 years ago

This occurred after a recent update to the instagram and facebook apps (~Aug 4, 2015).

See https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mitappinventortest/YwNjVnV_KlU/discussion

and aia attached to that discussion in the forum

josmas commented 9 years ago

Just looked into this; it turns out that both facebook and instagram have decided to stop supporting text sharing. You can see instagram's note here.

I left a reply in the forum: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mitappinventortest/YwNjVnV_KlU/sU1fwGgsAgAJ

cc/ @jsheldonmit @halatmit only thing we can do is document this in the Component; thoughts?

halatmit commented 9 years ago

@jsheldonmit @josmas I agree with José. There isn't anything we should do. But I don't see what we would want to put into the component documentation. Do you?

josmas commented 9 years ago

Just a simple note stating that sharing text does not work with Facebook or Instragram; the picture will be shared, but the text will be ignored.