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Add "share" to the interaction links
Title:
Add "share" to the interaction links
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entries
Summary:
Dreamwidth isn't a platform for tumblr or twitter style reblogging / retweeting, but it would be nice if it were easier to share others' posts with your readers. Luckily, the functionality is already in the code base! It's just not exposed via the UI.
Let's expose the "share" functionality via the UI.
Description:
We have this awesome share functionality in the code base. If you go to the URL
http://www.dreamwidth.org/update?share=http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/2013/06/11/dw-news-11-jun-2013.html
You get a new post window, ready for editing, with the subject:
dw_news | Dreamwidth News: 11 June 2013
and the body:
<a href="http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/2013/06/11/dw-news-11-jun-2013.html">dw_news | Dreamwidth News: 11 June 2013</a>
This is awesome, and we should expose it via the UI, probably in the interaction links, with "track", "share", etc. (The share URL will also work for external sites, but unless someone writes a bookmarklet or some such that's harder to work with in our UI.)
Changes to the current interface I'd suggest:
* Make it work with https (it currently doesn't)
* For dreamwidth internal URLs, change the format of the body text to
<user name="dw-news"> said "<a href="http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/2013/06/11/dw-news-11-jun-2013.html">dw_news | Dreamwidth News: 11 June 2013</a>".
This suggestion:
Should be implemented as-is.
18 (39.1%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
9 (19.6%)
Shouldn't be implemented.
10 (21.7%)
(I have no opinion)
9 (19.6%)
(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)
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http://www.dreamwidth.org/entry/new?share=http://www.freeorion.org/index.php/Main_Page
(was the first page I had open in a different tab)
*goes off to code bookmarklet for dw_nifty*
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maybe a "quote from linked post?" button which would bring up a modal allowing selection of a single block of content which it would then put in the appropriate blockquote element. That could be made accessible pretty easily, though implementation might be a bear.
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Given we already have the quote button for comments, I'd imagine that similar functionality could be built into a share button and I'd definitely appreciate it. You can already force an entry page to have a modicum of text into the main box, but I never finished working out the details on how to get it working fully as it required putting everything as escaped text into the URL bar which wasn't ideal.
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Of course, if somebody wants to plagiarise they only have to copy/paste... and what we're talking about here is rather different, since it automatically gives a link to the original.
I guess my feeling is that the ability to quote would be nifty, but make sure that it is a deliberate action, and not something that is done by default.
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actually! Blockquote has a valid attribute "cite" which allows you to put in a URL from the source of the quotation. It's not exposed by any user agents that I know of, and again, there's nothing preventing the end-user from editing it out, but it does put in more of a paper trail of what has just happened, which can even be useful in the non-malicious case.
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I'd say disable the feature completely on locked posts, locked means don't share to me, and I'm normally the everything-is-public-link-to-anything guy.
Oh, my.
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answer, yes, although getting it to work with assistive technology is a no go at least at this immediate moment. But that might just be my setup.
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1) disable this feature on locked posts.
2) if it's possible, have it "quote" selected text from the post; do NOT have it pull in the entire content of the post, but something to make it easier to pull in a quote from it.
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It'd be nice if I could choose whether to have it on my posts or not. I know that any public post *MAY* be freely shared. But the presence of a share button implies I am *encouraging* sharing it rather than *accepting* that someone may share it. And...mostly, my journal is just that. Someone might link or quote a post (public or otherwise), yes. But that doesn't mean I want to suggest they do so.
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