Latest update (10.13) resets # of FB likes
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Topic: Latest update (10.13) resets # of FB likes
Posted By: iSec
Subject: Latest update (10.13) resets # of FB likes
Date Posted: 03 December 2012 at 8:23pm
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It seems like all topics have lost their "Facebook Likes" after the recent update of the forum. Some topics had 20+ facebook likes and they all reset to 0 now -:(... Is that normal with the new process which links social-networking sharing to the topic instead of individual posts, or is it a bug? ------------- "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars" -Charles A. Beard |
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Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 03 December 2012 at 10:03pm
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The Facebook "likes" are simply associated to the URL. The release notes answer the question:
Though this should improve things for the future, as a like on page one and a like on page five with go to the same overall count, rather than different pages having different likes ------------- S2H.co.uk - http://www.s2h.co.uk/wwf/" rel="nofollow - WebWiz Mods and Skins For support on my mods + skins, please use http://www.s2h.co.uk/forum/" rel="nofollow - my forum . |
forum_posts.asp - Social Networking Sharing now links to the forum topic and not a page within the topicPosted By: iSec
Date Posted: 04 December 2012 at 1:51am
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Ah ok - I thought it was embedded through a Facebook API not the forum... if it's controlled by the end-user website then wouldn't webmasters be able to cheat/alter the count of likes? ------------- "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars" -Charles A. Beard |
Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 04 December 2012 at 8:16pm
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What I meant was that facebook simply gets the Like count for the
URL provided to the widget, either directly or by the address bar. The widget is a simple bit of code such as "<facebook:like></facebook>" (simplified as I dont know the code of the top of my head). So you can provide the url for the button like so "<facebook:like>http://www.example.com/page.htm</facebook>" You can find out more on the https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/" rel="nofollow - Facebook website here . Enter different URLs and see how the preview changes. So for example this page is: http://forums.webwiz.net/latest-update-1013-resets-of-fb-likes_topic30585.html Where as previously it could of been: http://forums.webwiz.net/latest-update-1013-resets-of-fb-likes_topic30585_page1.html http://forums.webwiz.net/latest-update-1013-resets-of-fb-likes_topic30585_page2.html http://forums.webwiz.net/latest-update-1013-resets-of-fb-likes_topic30585_page3.html These would be classed as different pages by Facebook and so would have different counts. The only way it can be "Gamed" by a webmaster would be to set the url for the widget to "http://www.google.com/", but anyone who clicks the "like" button would be liking Google, not the website for the widget. ------------- S2H.co.uk - http://www.s2h.co.uk/wwf/" rel="nofollow - WebWiz Mods and Skins For support on my mods + skins, please use http://www.s2h.co.uk/forum/" rel="nofollow - my forum . |
Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 04 December 2012 at 8:34pm
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Ok, I see now... thanks for the explanation. ------------- "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars" -Charles A. Beard |
Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 06 December 2012 at 6:23pm
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So it looks like the # of likes got restored; not sure how that happened, maybe when someone new clicks like the #s go back... but at least one topic has had its FB likes restored and that's encouraging.
------------- "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars" -Charles A. Beard |