Social networking links

[TomRigg]

Hi All,

I rarely post feedback like this so standby..:

Just upgraded to 3.1 across my whole suite of IPB products. I'm SO impressed with the efforts of the team. Smooth upgrade, no problems and the general look, feel and behaviour of it is just great. Absolutely 100% fantastic (can you tell I'm really happy with this?).

After using it for a short while, the only suggestion I can make is with the social networking links near the bottom of posts. When I click them, they pass me on to the correct page, for example Twitter. However, the URL in the Twitter post is the unabbreviated one and is very long.

Would there be any chance of using a service like: http://bit.ly/ to shorten it?

Otherwise, I'm a really happy customer, it's nice to see developments like this carried out with enthusiasm and skill, keep up the good work..!

[.Ian]

I am sure the developers appreciate your comments :)

Re your twitter links, I agree it would be good. One way around this for now is to use say Tweet Me, which does precisely that.

The link would be http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url= or thereabouts - I tend to use that on 3.0.5 and then tweek the post to be tweeted.

[TomRigg]

Thanks for that Ian, I forgot to mention earlier that we already use 'add this' (http://www.addthis.com) but would obviously prefer something native to IPB. Having a native function would result in a little less clutter and improve the general flow of our pages.

This is a minor issue considering the huge amount of updates have been given in this release, pretty amazing really.

[.Ian]

After using it for a short while, the only suggestion I can make is with the social networking links near the bottom of posts. When I click them, they pass me on to the correct page, for example Twitter. However, the URL in the Twitter post is the unabbreviated one and is very long.

Would there be any chance of using a service like: http://bit.ly/ to shorten it?

I replied a few days ago, without checking. Not always a good idea!

I just did a test to my twitter account at http://twitter.com/isdoo and also to my Facebook account




And I was rather impressed - it all worked fine including a shortened URL for twitter - no problems at all. :)

So thanks to the developers on this :)

[TomRigg]

I tried mine a couple of days ago too and it all worked as if by magic..! Not too sure how that could have happened but I'm happy that it is resolved. Not sure if there could have been some caching issues.