Live data from Hacker News

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

maxart2501.github.io

21–27 of 27 posts

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

#21

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 hate this, too, and have used uBlock to completely banish the responsible DOM elements.

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

#22

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 usually read by highlighting the paragraph that I'm reading and I find it frustrating when websites break my workflow. Microsoft Azure's docs website does this as well.

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

#23

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.

Reminded me of this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11627009

I too am a highlighter :)

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

#24

I really like the way Medium creates a "screenshot" when you share highlighted text to Twitter. I thought that's what this was going to be - although this is pretty cool, and it looks like this library makes it really easy to extend and add something like that.

Does anyone know how they do this?

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

#25

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.

Reminded me of this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11627009 I too am a highlighter :)

Me too. One thing that drives me nuts is for some reason on the nytimes website when you double tap (I don't like to click) on text to highlight it will change the size of the text... I always forget about this and it takes active thought not to try highlighting things!

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

#26

I really like the way Medium creates a "screenshot" when you share highlighted text to Twitter. I thought that's what this was going to be - although this is pretty cool, and it looks like this library makes it really easy to extend and add something like that.

Does anyone know how they do this?

imagemagick on the server with custom fonts

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

#27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'll have to deal with npm and bower too, though. I guess I'll have to release a new package and deprecate the old one.
Post reply on HN