Facebook Sharing - Fomat

[ronalessi]

When you share an article on facebook, "comments" and the "tag name" get added and what's worse is that there is no space between them so does not look good. See this screenshot: http://s29.postimg.org/51je0rlvr/facebook_sharing_issue.png

[Graloth]

It would seem that the sharing functionality is also pulling the contents of the article header, meaning that:

• Article title is doubled, as shared link title as well as part of the text in the shared link, example linked by @ronalessi also shows this (look for "Welcome to Ghost")
• The list in the header containing post date, tag(s) and comment count are also used in the shared link text, but because they are a styled list, they do not receive spacing, as @ronalessi mentions

I'm putting this here in order to provide more information on the issue.
While I'm not very good at javascript, I can still read it just fine, so I'll see if I can figure out if the issue is with the javascript that triggers the sharing dialogue or if it's the way facebook pulls the information.

[Graloth]

The issue is with the Facebook sharer, not Ghostium itself, since Ghostium simply passes the article URL to facebooks sharer.php system, which then scrapes the page for the content it needs.

It still gets the same problem as originally mentioned, I will see if I can dig out information on what the sharer looks for to pull the information from, it could probably be something as simple as it just converts the page to plaintext and uses that, in which case we are unlikely the first to encounter this issue.

Facebook also has a debug tool, here you can see the result it gets on my test site:

• https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Ffudge.graloth.com%2Fwelcome-to-ghost%2F

I'll continue doing some research on this, it would be rather annoying if we had to insert the header via javascript so that the Facebook scraper doesn't parse it into it's share text.

[Graloth]

Facebook has it's own system in place for having full control over what gets put into the sharer, it does require moving away from their sharer.php and over to using FB.iu, but it would make it a lot more flexible.

Facebook FB.ui documentation:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/javascript/reference/FB.ui

Source that lead me to this information (also has good information on how to actually use it, for a quick start):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6138780/facebook-share-button-and-custom-text/6138912#6138912

Posting this here in case @oswaldoacauan feels like giving it a try

[ronalessi]

Any update @Graloth ?

Any thoughts on this @oswaldoacauan as it affects your website as well?

[Graloth]

My computer i currently taken apart as I'm repairing it, so I haven't had time to look at it, plus I've upgraded to ghost 0.5, and haven't installed ghostium on it yet, but when I do I'll see if it's something that is easily fixed