Facebook "Like Button" on Smugmug

RonD200RonD200 Registered Users Posts: 350 Major grins
edited March 1, 2011 in SmugMug Support
This is great, facebook is now displaying a thumbnail photo when you click the "Like" button under a photo on Smugmug. At least it's doing it for me this morning, hope it lasts!!! Great way to promote your site!!! :clap:clap:clap

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited February 27, 2011
    Yup, looks like this:

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  • juliankjuliank Registered Users Posts: 43 Big grins
    edited February 27, 2011
    Facebook Like button under the photo? How do you turn it on? Is there one also for twitter?
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  • SamirDSamirD Registered Users Posts: 3,474 Major grins
    edited February 27, 2011
    I believe there's an option under gallery settings if I'm not mistaken.
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited February 27, 2011
    juliank wrote: »
    Facebook Like button under the photo? How do you turn it on? Is there one also for twitter?

    your site is? .... ear.gif
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  • WinsomeWorksWinsomeWorks Registered Users Posts: 1,935 Major grins
    edited February 28, 2011
    Facebook changes to Like and Share buttons - How will it affect SmugMug ?
    Here's some news about Facebook's "Like" and "Share" buttons I just read on CNN.com : http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/02/28/facebook.like.button/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn I haven't worked out how this may affect us, especially given the new changes to our sharing capabilities, & I've gotta run off here, so I'll let the rest of you hash that out! It seems it's already been a bit of a gradual process, so it's possible none of us can know how it's all gonna shake-down. I know one thing... FB is prone to frequent changes, many of which seem to get most of their users upset & feeling they have no way to respond (except w/ more FB posts!) but I've wondered in the past if they should simply integrate these buttons & merge the results. Lots of people are clearly still confused about the differences between them anyway, and we've sure seen those questions & conversations here on DGrin. Ok, have at it: what will change with our Smug + FB integration?
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited February 28, 2011
    Anna Lisa, look in post #2 here. You can see what it looks like when you click the "Like" button now on a photo on SmugMug.
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  • WinsomeWorksWinsomeWorks Registered Users Posts: 1,935 Major grins
    edited February 28, 2011
    Andy wrote: »
    Anna Lisa, look in post #2 here. You can see what it looks like when you click the "Like" button now on a photo on SmugMug.
    ooops. Where am I looking?! (yeah, I ran, but came back...!) [ETA: ooooopps again! I see... you moved it! Ok, thanks. Will look.)
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  • WinsomeWorksWinsomeWorks Registered Users Posts: 1,935 Major grins
    edited February 28, 2011
    Oh. (that was said w/ a sinking feeling). Eeeuw. I mean, yeah, it's good there's now a thumbnail, but yuck at the whole long description, etc. It's basically the same problem we were having before w/ sharing Smug galleries. And it's non-editable now, right? I think I saw that somewhere...
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited February 28, 2011
    WinsomeWorks wrote: »
    It's basically the same problem we were having before w/ sharing Smug galleries. And it's non-editable now, right? I think I saw that somewhere...

    It's completely and wholly different. You can share a gallery link by pasting into your status, and edit the whole thing to your heart's content.


    Using the like button, there's no editing. Make your descriptions count!
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  • J AllenJ Allen Registered Users Posts: 359 Major grins
    edited February 28, 2011
    RonD200 wrote: »
    This is great, facebook is now displaying a thumbnail photo when you click the "Like" button under a photo on Smugmug. At least it's doing it for me this morning, hope it lasts!!! Great way to promote your site!!! clap.gifclapclap.gif


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  • jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
    edited February 28, 2011
    Andy wrote: »
    It's completely and wholly different. You can share a gallery link by pasting into your status, and edit the whole thing to your heart's content.


    Using the like button, there's no editing. Make your descriptions count!
    Andy, Facebook is in the process of changing the Like button so there is editing and it becomes a real post on your wall.
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited February 28, 2011
    jfriend wrote: »
    Andy, Facebook is in the process of changing the Like button so there is editing and it becomes a real post on your wall.

    Great, happy to see that - will try it when it's available :)
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  • WinsomeWorksWinsomeWorks Registered Users Posts: 1,935 Major grins
    edited February 28, 2011
    jfriend wrote: »
    Andy, Facebook is in the process of changing the Like button so there is editing and it becomes a real post on your wall.
    That's what I posted in post #6 (It got moved to this more logical thread). The CNN (via Mashable) article isn't all that informative, but that's probably because FB isn't spilling all the beans.
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  • jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
    edited February 28, 2011
    WinsomeWorks wrote: »
    That's what I posted in post #6 (It got moved to this more logical thread). The CNN (via Mashable) article isn't all that informative, but that's probably because FB isn't spilling all the beans.
    Yeah, I was responding directly to Andy because he hadn't read the other posts or articles that you and others have posted about.
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited February 28, 2011
    WinsomeWorks wrote: »
    That's what I posted in post #6 (It got moved to this more logical thread). The CNN (via Mashable) article isn't all that informative, but that's probably because FB isn't spilling all the beans.

    They already made one significant change - see post #2 here and go try and like something so you can see it for yourself.
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited February 28, 2011
    jfriend wrote: »
    Yeah, I was responding directly to Andy because he hadn't read the other posts or articles that you and others have posted about.

    I did.
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  • NicciNicci Registered Users Posts: 436 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2011
    definitely an improvement.

    however, the old problem still remains that if you "like" a photo in lightbox in a gallery that is thumbnail style, the link on facebook takes you to the gallery rather than the photo.

    is this going to be corrected?
  • NicciNicci Registered Users Posts: 436 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2011
    Andy, if you would like to see what I am talking about, you can go to your test FB account and look at the wall of my test FB account, Nikki Castle.

    I liked a photo on my site and your site so you could see the problem.
  • scotticusscotticus Registered Users Posts: 159 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2011
    Nicole, in order to have likes incrementally counted, they can only point to 1 URL. So if we had it going to the lightbox link, and you liked the photo, it would actually show 1 like for that link, and then if you liked it in the gallery, it would show 1 like for that photo, as opposed to showing 2 likes. It's a limitation on the like/graph API on facebook, and until they change it, we don't have the ability to pass in unique URLs based on where the photo was liked.
    Tecnicole wrote: »
    Andy, if you would like to see what I am talking about, you can go to your test FB account and look at the wall of my test FB account, Nikki Castle.

    I liked a photo on my site and your site so you could see the problem.
  • NicciNicci Registered Users Posts: 436 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2011
    There is not an option to like a photo while viewing it in a thumbnail gallery. The only option is in the lightbox view, so there is only one link. No possibility of two likes in that gallery style.

    Right now, if someone likes one photo in a gallery of that style, a person clicking on the facebook link will think the like was for the entire gallery.
    scotticus wrote: »
    Nicole, in order to have likes incrementally counted, they can only point to 1 URL. So if we had it going to the lightbox link, and you liked the photo, it would actually show 1 like for that link, and then if you liked it in the gallery, it would show 1 like for that photo, as opposed to showing 2 likes. It's a limitation on the like/graph API on facebook, and until they change it, we don't have the ability to pass in unique URLs based on where the photo was liked.
  • scotticusscotticus Registered Users Posts: 159 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2011
    Yes, that is true, but the URLs are permanent, so if you were to change gallery style or let your users pick the gallery style, it would report erroneous likes. I tried a bunch of hacks to make it work earlier, and I'll give it a whirl again to see if anything has changed to make it feasible....
  • NicciNicci Registered Users Posts: 436 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2011
    Thank you. I appreciate you looking into it.

    Wouldn't erroneous likes be preferred though? Rather than people not getting linked to the correct photo? It's not like the likes are being counted as votes towards something. I would think it is more important that people get to the item that was liked, no?


    scotticus wrote: »
    Yes, that is true, but the URLs are permanent, so if you were to change gallery style or let your users pick the gallery style, it would report erroneous likes. I tried a bunch of hacks to make it work earlier, and I'll give it a whirl again to see if anything has changed to make it feasible....
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