Questions tagged [sharing]
For questions relating to sharing a post or promoting the site via email, on Facebook, or on Twitter.
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"Help us Grow This Site" Twitter/X and Facebook buttons on Public Beta sites broken
If you go to any public beta site's homepage, Programming Language Design and Implementation for example, you'll find a box like this:
The Facebook and Twitter/X share buttons rely on a service ...
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Remove Share to Twitter and Facebook-link [duplicate]
Twitter no longer exists. It is now called "X".
These websites are a net negative on this planet; we should not promote them (and there is no way they can be used to promote Stack Exchange)....
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Add Mastodon to the "Know someone who can answer?" social media links
Over on https://askubuntu.com/ we have this banner under questions.
Is it possible to add a link to "Share a link to this question via Mastodon"?
(Some may prefer to use Fediverse to refer ...
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Anonymity issue for mods with user ID in "Share" links [duplicate]
Below each question and answer, there's a "Share" link that contains a URL to that question or answer. That URL also contains your user ID number. For instance:
https://ell.stackexchange.com/...
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Link of Share button shows stop sign on hover
A recent change in the CSS of the Share button under posts has the pointer turning into a stop (or forbidden) sign if you hover over the link.
(I wasn't able to take a screenshot containing the cursor ...
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Clicking on share reloads the page on a slow connection
Clicking on share reloads the page on a slow connection. Tested on Chrome 105.0.5195.102 + Windows 10. I don't think it should reload the page. Demo:
Not sure if I should tag as bug or feature ...
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Copy link doesn't have highlight when using TAB key to put it in focus
I noticed that in the "Share a link" dialogue, after you press Tab to cycle the buttons, if the "Copy link" button is selected it doesn't have a highlight around it like the other ...
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Enable clicking on [Share] to automatically copy link to clipboard
When the user clicks on the [Share] link under the post (either a question or an answer), a popup window appears with the link automatically highlighted. I propose that the link should be ...
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Links and buttons in share popover are positioned vertically and inconsistently left aligned
When clicking the "share" button below questions and answers I get the following layout:
These elements used to be positioned horizontally across the bottom on the popover.
It looks like a &...
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I had my accounts merged. Do I need to update all my share links to ensure I'm awarded publicity badges?
My main user ID on the Information Security site changed from 165253 to 106285 since my accounts were merged. Does this invalidate all of the share links in my posts which use my old user ID?
https://...
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Is there a way to "share" a link to an entire site (like we can with questions and answers)?
Sometimes I share links on Reddit to questions and answers on Chinese.SE. When sharing URLs via the "share" button, we get a link like https://chinese.stackexchange.com/q/42218/8099 wherein ...
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Let the OP decide if their post can be shared by SE Twitter bots [closed]
The Twitter bots operated by Stack Exchange share bountied posts and some other posts on Twitter. The bots have an algorithm and choose things that seem like they might be worthy questions to share.
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Should the text of answer short links automatically get prettified like the text of other links?
If I paste the URL for a Stack Exchange answer (with or without the anchor), the text of the automatic hyperlink is automatically populated with the title of the question:
https://meta.stackexchange....
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What was the reason behind changing copy-link edit box behavior?
tl;dr: What was the reason for disabling Ctrl+X shortcut on text field used for sharing URLs to each question and answer. This change and the force to use Ctrl+C instead seems to me very odd and ...
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New sharing option named "DEV" added to the "share" option
In Stack Overflow, when clicking on the "share" option on a post, in the "share" popup, there is a new icon added as "DEV", clicking on that navigates to https://dev.to.
Is the "DEV" sharing option ...
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