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Yeah I find this article hilarious. Especially since maybe less than 1 in 10 visitors will actually want to share the article? So 1 in 476 is actually pretty decent usage.
For which the other 475 get saddled with a bunch of extraneous downloads and invasive tracking.
I 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.
That said, I'm curious as to why someone with enough technical sophistication to be posting on HN browses Amazon with a native mobile app instead of a web browser.
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For which the other 475 get saddled with a bunch of extraneous downloads and invasive tracking.
The cohort that is concerned about this almost certainly runs some sort of a blocker.
> 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?
Yeah I think the author needs a dose of reality about how many users do anything on a site. Something that 1 in 476 visitors do isn't that bad. Especially when there's no real ongoing cost to doing so.
With the continual passage of laws restricting social media for minors, URL copy and paste will become the standard methods for sharing.
Personally, I would never click the share button because sharing with a person or group of people is often through email, SMS, work chat, or here.
Businesses that use Facebook to communicate events are actively restricting their consumer base because not everyone wants to use it or will. A standard web-site is the only method to communicate openly with users.
I don't click share buttons because I don't know what it's going to do. I don't want something copied that says "Check out this Thing on this Site! " because then I have to delete half of it at which point it's slower than copying the URL. If every share button had the same behaviour then maybe I would.
When I receive a link with a 100 character hash attached I gasp and yell at the person who sent me it (my wife normally)
But ... make it share something more useful and they might use it more.
I author a Caltrain app, and if you are viewing the time schedule, the share button pops up the iOS share sheet pre-filled with "I'm taking train XX leaving at and arriving at at . Track my train ."
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The cohort that is concerned about this almost certainly runs some sort of a blocker.
That's beside the point. I block plenty of things personally but am no less concerned about mass tracking.
> 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?