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

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Post by MaxArt2501 » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 10:26 AM UTC

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

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Post by MaxArt2501 » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 10:27 AM UTC

I actually used the sharing functionality provided by the library to post this link here.

Suggestions are well accepted.

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

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Post by dwrowe » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 1:38 PM UTC

Looks interesting! Getting some odd skipping around testing on mobile (iOS / Chrome), where holding on a word skips to the bottom of the page, to an unrelated selection.

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

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Post by MaxArt2501 » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 2:29 PM UTC

dwrowe wrote: post #3

Looks interesting! Getting some odd skipping around testing on mobile (iOS / Chrome), where holding on a word skips to the bottom of the page, to an unrelated selection.

Strange. The selection itself isn't handled by the library itself, rather than the browser/OS. The library only reacts when a selection is made.

Does it happen to you in other cases as well?

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

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Post by tbodt » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 2:33 PM UTC

I'm afraid you may be violating Medium's copyright on their design, sir

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

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Post by MaxArt2501 » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 2:45 PM UTC

tbodt wrote: post #5

I'm afraid you may be violating Medium's copyright on their design, sir

I'm pretty sure there's a lot of prior art for their "design", so I'm kind of safe there.

Edit: unless you were referring to the whole aspect of the page. In that case, it's just a presentational page for an open source project, so it has nothing to do with blogging platforms. That should be ok, I guess.

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

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Post by franciscop » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 2:58 PM UTC

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.

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

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Post by dabernathy89 » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 4:10 PM UTC

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.