Why sharing in facebook does not work any more

alaios

Hi all,
I have constantly problems when sharing in facebook my images (actually I post in my wall the links to my smugmug images).

First of all
1. I can not find any more the option which link I want to share in facebook (image link, gallery link..)
2. There are times when I select an image to share in facebook, and the pop up of facebook appears, the thumbnail there does not correspond to the image I am uploading.
3. There are times that I have included captions to my images but these do not appear always in my post in facebook.

Do you have similar problems?
Any workaround?

I would like to thank you in advance for your help

Regards
Alex

alaios

Hi,
so I am just the only one having problems sharing in facebook?

Regards
Alex

lcsmith

Hi Alex,
It's located immeadiately below and to the left of the picture. There's an icon and right next to it is Share. Click on the Share button.

alaios

Hi,
I know that already.
I have uploaded one photo to show you what my problem is:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/62/omh6.png/
Once I pressed the button you showed me the pop up appers. There take notice that the thumbnail there is not the thumbnail of the image I am trying to share!!!!

What is really going on?

Regards
Alex

paulbrock

if you've not unveiled your site yet, there will be a difference between what you see and try and share and what everyone else (inc Facebook) sees. So when you unveil, it should fix itself. That's what happened for me anyway....

alaios

Hi,
what do you mean by unveiled your site yet?
Alex

mbonocore

alaios wrote: »

Hi,
what do you mean by unveiled your site yet?
Alex

I would recommend using the Publish To Facebook Feature. You can find this in the organizer. When You select an image in the organizer, click on the Share button above the gallery. See attached screenshot. Also, you can read more about this feature here

paulbrock

alaios wrote: »

Hi,
what do you mean by unveiled your site yet?
Alex

Unveiled is when your new site is visible to everyone

Darter02

I haven't tried posting any images on FB yet since unveiling, but I did post the link to my site letting folks know it had been updated.

Previously it would display the information I had placed into the metadata in the advanced customizer. It was tailored for SEO mentioning what I offered, and the areas I work in. It also would display the name of my site, "Ron Lutz II ~ Photographer."

Now it has my "LutzR2," which is the SM name I used to set up my site (ie. lutzr2.smugmug.com). It also shows what I had once used as the text on my legacy site.



How do I modify this? Will I be able to tailor my metadata for SEO again? I can't seem to sort out how.

mbonocore wrote: »

Also, you can read more about this feature here

Oh, I used to use the "publish to facebook" feature that was in beta, or whatever. I used it a lot and liked it. The linked page you have is from 2012, using legacy. So it works just the same?

PS: I know "professional" is spelled wrong in that screencap.

alaios

Hi,
I do not want to publish my images in facebook. I only want to have this sort of "announcements" in my wall so other can see it and be redirected to my smugmug account. I still have problems posting in my wall with the right thumbnail and captions.... Weird is that in some pictured it works find and in some other does not.... Can this be a bug ? Also in my organizer only half of the thumbnails are visible there... IS this normal?

I would like to thank you in advance for your reply

Regards
Alex


P.S Today it has also changed what I get when I click the share to facebook.
It was
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/62/omh6.png/
and now it is
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/707/rqdq.png/

....

mbonocore

Ron,

Check your Site Name in your Profile. That's where it's pulling from. *i think*

mbonocore

alaios wrote: »

Hi,
I do not want to publish my images in facebook. I only want to have this sort of "announcements" in my wall so other can see it and be redirected to my smugmug account. I still have problems posting in my wall with the right thumbnail and captions.... Weird is that in some pictured it works find and in some other does not.... Can this be a bug ? Also in my organizer only half of the thumbnails are visible there... IS this normal?

I would like to thank you in advance for your reply

Regards
Alex


P.S Today it has also changed what I get when I click the share to facebook.
It was
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/62/omh6.png/
and now it is
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/707/rqdq.png/

....

Hey Alex I am driving so hard for me to check. While we look into this, I would recommend copying the photo link from the "Get A Link"

You can get this in the lightbox view then Share button.

coldclimb

I've noticed this too. Using the "Get a link" URL, or any URL that I've tried yet, when I paste that to my facebook wall the thumbnail image facebook chooses is my main bio image rather than any of the photos in the gallery I link. There was a time when I could scroll through a selection of images from that gallery and choose one that would be used, but it's been months since I was able to do that. Before the unveiling I had to link directly to the photo I wanted displayed rather than the gallery in order to have control, but now that has changed too.

In a perfect world I'd like to be able to link to a gallery, and choose which thumbnail it uses.

coldclimb

For what it's worth, I also tried the share link below one picture in the gallery, and the thumbnail that showed up on facebook was a different picture from the same gallery.

alaios

Hi
I am "happy" that one more has the same problem and I am not the alone-stupid guy trying to persuade others.
Any ideas why this happens? What happens people when you want to share the link into your wall in facebook? Do you get the right thumbnail there? Do you also get the right caption written there correctly or not?

Regards
Alex

mbonocore

alaios wrote: »

Hi
I am "happy" that one more has the same problem and I am not the alone-stupid guy trying to persuade others.
Any ideas why this happens? What happens people when you want to share the link into your wall in facebook? Do you get the right thumbnail there? Do you also get the right caption written there correctly or not?

Regards
Alex

When click the photo to open in Lightbox, then click on Share To Facebook, the photo I am sharing is the thumbnail displayed on my Facebook. Check this screenshot.

alaios

I am not gettting it. What should I change then ?

Darter02

Here's how I post a specific image. I figure if people like it they'll go to the rest of the gallery.

1. Open the photo and hit the Share button, and then pick Get a Link.



2. Go to the Galleries Tab and copy the Lightbox code.



3. Post to FB.




*Please note, it is still showing my OLD site's bio information. It used to be my site's metadata about my services. I've changed the Profile page's information to that, but this old text copy still appears.*


Oh, and I have found that using this method doesn't work on sites like Reddit. There you get a randomly choosen thumbnail from the same gallery.

alaios

Hi, many thanks for providing us with an alternative. Unfortunately this did not work either...

So,
this is the image I want to share the link in facebook

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/42/is5u.png/
and after I do what you showed me (get the lightbox link from the gallery tab) this is what I see in facebook

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/703/ev2y.png/

You can see of course that these are two different images!! I wonder if there is official smugmug support as I am getting tired trying to get a fix for a not for free service...

Have a nice day
Regards
Alex

Darter02

The only difference I can see if that I was NOT logged in, and you WERE logged in. Huh...

mbonocore

alaios wrote: »

Hi, many thanks for providing us with an alternative. Unfortunately this did not work either...

So,
this is the image I want to share the link in facebook

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/42/is5u.png/
and after I do what you showed me (get the lightbox link from the gallery tab) this is what I see in facebook

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/703/ev2y.png/

You can see of course that these are two different images!! I wonder if there is official smugmug support as I am getting tired trying to get a fix for a not for free service...

Have a nice day
Regards
Alex

All my tests, that were done using the "Share To Facebook" tool, and not just pasting a link, had the correct thumbnail. Can you try it that way?

alaios

Hi
tried that also.... when I try this tool trhe thumbnail like 90% of the time is wrong... I thought that it might be a caching problem but even erasing browsers cache did not solve the problem...

Do you know how I should contanct smugmug support for the problem I have? Someone from their technical team has to have a look here... I am quite limited with not working properly that....

Alex

mbonocore

alaios wrote: »

Hi
tried that also.... when I try this tool trhe thumbnail like 90% of the time is wrong... I thought that it might be a caching problem but even erasing browsers cache did not solve the problem...

Do you know how I should contanct smugmug support for the problem I have? Someone from their technical team has to have a look here... I am quite limited with not working properly that....

Alex

Alex are you using the share to FB tool or just copying the URL. every test I have done with the share to FB tool has displayed the correct thumbnail.

alaios

the share to facebook tool (as that is faster ofc). 90% of my tests failed showing wrong thumbnail. Funny is that the wrong thumbnail changed every time on different image... How can I get more support on that?

Regards
Alex

alaios

Hi
this is the latest screen shot, where it shows the selection I do for sharing my shot ( Share to facebook).

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/194/tmcf.png/

The pop up it appeared with the wrong thumbnail
and on the background the real image...
Of course when I press the Share link I get in facebook the thumbnail with the horses...

I do know what to do now and who should I contact. Sharing in facebook was one of the main reasons to select smugmug and pay the annual registration fee... I am really dissapointed for this and the overall support.

Regards
Alex

mbonocore

Alex, can you let us know what your SM site is so I can trouble shoot?

alaios

Thanks for the answer. What does SM mean? I am really bad with abbreviations (Super Market, Short Mile, Star Melanie)

Regards
A

paulbrock

alaios wrote: »

Thanks for the answer. What does SM mean? I am really bad with abbreviations (Super Market, Short Mile, Star Melanie)

Regards
A

you'll kick yourself when you realise...

Andy

alaios wrote: »

Thanks for the answer. What does SM mean? I am really bad with abbreviations (Super Market, Short Mile, Star Melanie)

Regards
A

SmugMug.

Your SmugMug site, please, so people can help.

alaios

Hi,
my website is the
http://alexpal.smugmug.com/

should I give you specific images, as example that give the wrong share to problem?

Regards
Alex