I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
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Re: I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
#2Amen! Plus those share buttons leak data with third party cookies and such, they're mostly a scam to skim user data from your web site.
Re: I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
#3It's sort of cargo-cult behavior to add them to non big corporate websites. Just like adding superfluous chat bots now.
Re: I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
#40.2% can be an OK conversion rate for some things.
Re: I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
#5I've added a button that just triggers `navigator.share()`[1]. I know most users do the copy-paste dance, but I find this is a good middle ground. Adding functionality for my users, but not adding special social media share buttons.
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/s...
Re: I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
#6Most people don't have an audience they would share it to if we're being honest.
If there's a article/site I'd be interested in sharing, it might be to a slack channel or a text message, in which case I just copy/paste the URL.
Re: I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
#70.2% can be an OK conversion rate for some things.
Indeed, that seemed surprisingly high to me and kind of countered the argument.
Re: I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
#8I've added a button that just triggers `navigator.share()`[1]. I know most users do the copy-paste dance, but I find this is a good middle ground. Adding functionality for my users, but not adding special social media share buttons. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/s...
I thought about using navigator.share myself, but decided to go with the basic "Copy URL" button instead, as navigator.share is pretty useless on desktops and not supported across browsers on phones either (Android's Webview being the big one for my use case).
Re: I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
#9I use share buttons all the time on social platforms, and apps like Amazon that don't have any other way of deep linking.
Lot's of people use apps that don't expose a link, share buttons are great and even better when they use standards like your OS's share functionality.
Re: I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
#10> The share buttons got clicked 14,078 times. That’s a 0.21% usage rate, which works out to about 1 in 476 visitors.
In other words, people not only click share buttons, but do it quite often?