Tip from social networking

JethroUK

Sharing links is soooooooooooooooooooooo much easier with social media interfaces (Facebook Google Twitter yadda yadda)

- Click "Insert Link"

- Automatically:
- Inserts the Title from the webpage (emboldened and centred)
- Seeks and inserts the photo from that same web page
[If there's more than one photo they let you choose by cycling through them]
- Inserts Link

- Add a comment
- Send



The current MSE forum tools insist you insert these separately e.g.

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Murray vs Djokovic live score and updates from Australian Open 2016 final

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This took me about 10 minutes to share this news article [Edit: using a mobile phone browser app and MSE mobile web]
It would be real real easy for the MSE developers to implement all this automatically using the "Add Link" button
Which would increase traffic from people used to "sharing" to social networking mobile apps and it would save MSE creating a dedicated mobile app

I am all for using Mobile Web Interfaces as universal platform for all brands of mobile without need to create different mobile apps for each platform (Windows Android and Apple and now Amazon Kindle)

grumbler

It took me 1 second to drag&drop the picture and another 3 seconds to add a link to it.


Your standalone link could have been dragged&dropped from http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/tennis/

Murray vs Djokovic live score and updates from Australian Open 2016 final

You can use copy&paste instead of drag&drop.

Mind you, drag&drop can produce awkward results in Chrome.

JethroUK

Try it again with mobile phone browser app using MSE mobile web interface and let me know how you get on

JethroUK

Any sign MSE Forums getting out of 1980s and into the 2000's?

"Social media" is where it's at get on board
"Sharing" is a word MSE need to get their head around

Former_MSE_Andrea

Hi.

We can't give a timeframe atm but we are working on mobile

torbrex

JethroUK wrote: »

Any sign MSE Forums getting out of 1980s and into the 2000's?

"Social media" is where it's at get on board
"Sharing" is a word MSE need to get their head around

Alternately, you could adapt to what MSE gives you.

Former_MSE_Andrea

Thanks for the support torbrex. We do appreciate everyones' feedback, though, and always want to make the site better and the most use to the most people so we always take it on board. We may not agree with everything but it's all useful

JethroUK

It's a pretty rudimentary piece of programming
Clicking 'Insert web link' (automatically adds Title and Photo and embeds link, Bold and Centred)

If this was included in MSE mobile web interface buttons it would make it real easy for mobile users to contribute without producing 5 mobile apps for the 5 main platforms

Most share links will copy the link to the clipboard so the same button could automatically use the link that's already in the clipboard without the user even having to use the paste button

Presto!

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Hi.

We can't give a timeframe atm but we are working on mobile