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Re: Show HN: Share-this: Medium-like text sharing

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Post by MaxArt2501 » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 4:26 PM UTC

franciscop wrote: post #7

It appears totally broken to me, it might be the adblocker though (I also block social media): https://imgur.com/a/bB017 The same thing on Medium appears perfect without any social media link.

Are you using Firefox, perchance? It has a "bug" (not sure about that, but surely it's the only one that shows that behavior) relating to SVGs, so it used to size incorrectly the fouth icon. I worked it around some minutes ago and it should be fine.

The first icon should be Twitter, so maybe it's really Adblocker. I've tested it with uBlock Origin and it shows the same behavior but, honestly, I don't want to tamper with that.

In fact, the sharers that are provided are meant to be examples, and not part of the core library. I guess simply changing the name attribute of the sharer would end up in showing the button.

Re: Show HN: Share-this: Medium-like text sharing

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Post by maaarghk » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 4:34 PM UTC

You probably need a new name - https://www.sharethis.com/

Re: Show HN: Share-this: Medium-like text sharing

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Post by _asummers » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 4:49 PM UTC

Am I the only person absolutely hates this feature on websites? I highlight where I'm at on the page in the event I get pulled away for whatever reason so I know where I was at in the page. Any JS interaction there drives me insane and I wish no sites did this. If you're going to ask me to share the text, at least make that show up _outside_ the text I'm reading, please.

Re: Show HN: Share-this: Medium-like text sharing

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Post by MaxArt2501 » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 5:22 PM UTC

_asummers wrote: post #13

Am I the only person absolutely hates this feature on websites? I highlight where I'm at on the page in the event I get pulled away for whatever reason so I know where I was at in the page. Any JS interaction there drives me insane and I wish no sites did this. If you're going to ask me to share the text, at least make that show up _outside_ the text I'm reading, please.

I agree, that's somewhat annoying, but that's also something developers and commissioners want.

But the good news is that the DOM skeleton is so minimal that you can create a stylesheet that does exactly what you said. Given the reference to the selection, positioning the popover is up to the developer.

Re: Show HN: Share-this: Medium-like text sharing

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Post by MaxArt2501 » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 5:27 PM UTC

maaarghk wrote: post #12

You probably need a new name - https://www.sharethis.com/

Yeah, someone already pointed that out on Reddit :( Let's see how it develops.

Re: Show HN: Share-this: Medium-like text sharing

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Post by jszymborski » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 5:53 PM UTC

_asummers wrote: post #13

Am I the only person absolutely hates this feature on websites? I highlight where I'm at on the page in the event I get pulled away for whatever reason so I know where I was at in the page. Any JS interaction there drives me insane and I wish no sites did this. If you're going to ask me to share the text, at least make that show up _outside_ the text I'm reading, please.

I really hate this anti-pattern. I can't be the only person who highlights text as he reads to follow along...

Re: Show HN: Share-this: Medium-like text sharing

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Post by stingraycharles » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 5:57 PM UTC

_asummers wrote: post #13

Am I the only person absolutely hates this feature on websites? I highlight where I'm at on the page in the event I get pulled away for whatever reason so I know where I was at in the page. Any JS interaction there drives me insane and I wish no sites did this. If you're going to ask me to share the text, at least make that show up _outside_ the text I'm reading, please.

Not surprisingly, the selecting text is broken on my device and instantly makes me scroll to the bottom of the page (iPad / Safari). Horrible user experience.

Re: Show HN: Share-this: Medium-like text sharing

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Post by eriknstr » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 6:07 PM UTC

MaxArt2501 wrote: post #15

maaarghk wrote: post #12

You probably need a new name - https://www.sharethis.com/

Yeah, someone already pointed that out on Reddit :( Let's see how it develops.

Don't wait to see how it develops, just change the name. The sooner you change the name the better.

Besides the old repo URL will still redirect to the new location after you've renamed the repo on GitHub by going into settings and changing it there.

Re: Show HN: Share-this: Medium-like text sharing

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Post by brynjolf » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 6:43 PM UTC

jszymborski wrote: post #16

_asummers wrote: post #13

Am I the only person absolutely hates this feature on websites? I highlight where I'm at on the page in the event I get pulled away for whatever reason so I know where I was at in the page. Any JS interaction there drives me insane and I wish no sites did this. If you're going to ask me to share the text, at least make that show up _outside_ the text I'm reading, please.

I really hate this anti-pattern. I can't be the only person who highlights text as he reads to follow along...

I actually sometimes just copy the text from medium into a text editor so I can continue doing this. I'm addicted to highlighting.

Re: Show HN: Share-this: Medium-like text sharing

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Post by batrat » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 6:44 PM UTC

_asummers wrote: post #13

Am I the only person absolutely hates this feature on websites? I highlight where I'm at on the page in the event I get pulled away for whatever reason so I know where I was at in the page. Any JS interaction there drives me insane and I wish no sites did this. If you're going to ask me to share the text, at least make that show up _outside_ the text I'm reading, please.

Not alone. When I read text on my PC I tend to select text with my mouse a lot. This drive mu nuts when i select something then click accidentally on share button.