New Facebook/Twitter/Google+/Stumbleupon sharing buttons on Photo.net

[joshroot]

<p>Howdy folks.</p>

<p>I just wanted to let people know that we re-did the sharing links that appear on photo.net. We now have Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Stumbleupon buttons. On gallery pages they are now located down at the bottom of the image in a more logical spot. On all other pages, they are located up at the top of the page (you can see them on the page you are reading directly above this text). These links allow people to share something cool that they see on photo.net with their friends. They are also excellent traffic generators for photo.net images. Having something posted on Facebook brings a lot of people to see your image than would normally have found it. Having something "stumbled" has an exponentially greater effect (if it becomes popular within the stumbleupon system). So encouraging your friends to use these links will help promote your images and get them viewed by more people. Speaking of that, are you using the <a href="../help/community/facebook/facebook-app">Photo.net Sharing App on Facebook</a> to automatically post images you upload to photo.net onto your facebook wall?</p>

<p>That having been said, if you do not wish to have these sharing links on your gallery image pages, you can turn them off via the "my workspace" area. Go to your workspace and look on the right hand side under "account options". you want to click "disable" on the "Sharing links: disable | enable" toggle. If you previously had this set to "disable" you will need to reset it again due to the changes we made. However, if you goal in posting images online is to encourage people to view those images, I highly encourage you to consider leaving these buttons enabled. The traffic that social sharing systems can generate to images is fairly impressive and will be worth it for virtually everyone in my opinion.</p>

<p>Any questions, please ask.</p>

<p><img src="http://static.photo.net/attachments/bboard/00Z/00ZDuh-391865584.jpg" alt="" width="854" height="594" /></p><div></div>

[joshroot]

<p>Here are a couple of images where you can see examples of social activity promoting them:</p>

<p>http://www.photo.net/photo/11648990<br>

42 Facebook "likes" and 183 "Stumbles".<br>

http://www.photo.net/photo/13642312<br>

No Facebook activity, but 845 Stumbles.</p>

[Tim_Lookingbill]

<p>Is there a way to turn these off? I'm not interested in having these slow down my page download. I actually had to stop processes by clicking in Safari URL bar because something just keeps trying to download and never finishes. This slows down typing a response. Opened Activity Window and highlighted this line which was the last entry in the window after stopping processes...</p>

<p>https://ssl.gstatic.com/webclient/js/gc/23217085-590ae8cc/googleapis.client__plusone.js</p>

<p>Entered that in google and got one hit...this page...<br>

Or I'm back to turning off JavaScript in Safari Preferences. That Activity Window really shows a lot of stuff that has to download just for me to participate in a thread.<br>

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://netzpolitik.org/2011/kommentar-trotz-schonheitsfehler-richtig-so-uld/&ei=VrBSTvCUGsOOsAKqm6zMBg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBoQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttps://ssl.gstatic.com/webclient/js/gc/23217085-590ae8cc/googleapis.client__plusone.js%26hl%3Den%26newwindow%3D1%26biw%3D1244%26bih%3D931%26prmd%3Divns</p>

[joshroot]

<p>From my post above:</p>

<blockquote>

<p>That having been said, if you do not wish to have these sharing links on your gallery image pages, you can turn them off via the "my workspace" area. Go to your workspace and look on the right hand side under "account options". you want to click "disable" on the "Sharing links: disable | enable" toggle.</p>

</blockquote>

[joshroot]

<p>Tim,</p>

<p>I may have misunderstood you. If you are asking if you can remove the social links from across the site, the answer is no.</p>

[Tim_Lookingbill]

<p>Sorry for the belated response, Josh.</p>

<p>Yeah, I meant keeping the icons from showing up at the top of the page in threads I participate in, not for when they show up in galleries. </p>

<p>I'm really not sure if these have anything to do with all the downloading going on in the background shown in Safari's Activity Window. It's just that last link to an article about protecting data with sites integrated with Facebook led me to suspect that to be the cause.</p>

[WJT]

<p>I'm experiencing very slow page loadings. Sometimes the pages are corrupt. This is happening with IE and Firefox. If I disable the sharing links it seems to improve.</p>

[richsimmons]

<p>I agree the pages load more slowly, but I don't get your example above. No matter whose photo I click on I get the following under the photo. I'm using Safari 5.0.6 on a Mac.</p>

[joshroot]

<p>How is the slowness today? Jin was making some changes yesterday.</p>

[whydangle]

<p>I used to use the Facebook button to share my images on my facebook wall, but that button is now gone with only a "like" button below the image. I don't want to "like" my own page to share it! Any chance that share button can return?</p>

[kneesh]

<p>I saw this option the other day and clicked on it so that I could post the link to Facebook. Several of my friends have clicked on the, "like" button for this particular page, <a href="../photos/kneesh" target="_blank">http://www.photo.net/photos/kneesh</a>, however, it won't show me who they are. Where do I have to look in order to see the actual names of my friends who, "liked" the page? Thank you.</p>

[jimadams]

<p>Okay, I disabled the things on my portfolio. Even went back, re-enabled them, then disabled them again, but they're still showing up on my home page. Does the server need time to catch up or what?</p>

[whydangle]

<p>OK, so I see that there is an app that I can use to share that automatically links when I upload new images, but alas, it is a handful of previously uploaded images that I was hoping to share. Aaarrrgg!</p>

[Tim_Lookingbill]

<p>Just an update on my slow loading problems. I fixed it, but I'm afraid to say how because it involves a Safari extension that stops the invisible clutter from downloading in the background.</p>

<p>Whoops, this site won't allow my mentioning this extension, anyway.</p>

<p>I'll turn the extension off and see if it comes back since I read Josh's response that jin was making changes. I'll update afterward. But darn, it sure does speed up overall surfing especially when visiting bloated sites like CNN, MSNBC and other media giant sites.</p>

[Tim_Lookingbill]

<p>Turned the extension off and it only adds about 2-3 seconds to an already fast download of around 6 seconds per page. My Workspace page used to take forever and now it downloads pretty fast as well.</p>

<p>Jin's a pretty dang good crack programmer. GO! JIN! You crazy coder!</p>

[joshroot]

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<p>Turned the extension off and it only adds about 2-3 seconds to an already fast download of around 6 seconds per page. My Workspace page used to take forever and now it downloads pretty fast as well.</p>

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<p>In addition, the "social" buttons should be loading after everything else now.</p>

[jimadams]

<p>So I take it we <em>can't </em>remove these "social" buttons from our main page?</p>

[joshroot]

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<p>So I take it we <em>can't </em>remove these "social" buttons from our main page?</p>

</blockquote>

<p>You are going to have to be more clear as to what you mean by "main page".</p>

<p>In general, you can only remove the buttons from your own gallery pages.</p>

[jimadams]

<p>Oh, okay. I'm talking about <strong><a href="../photodb/user?user_id=1479418">this page</a></strong>.</p>

[Tim_Lookingbill]

<p>Josh, just out of curiosity (and a bit off topic) seeing you guys are more knowledgeable about this, does all that's downloading shown in Safari's Activity Monitor contribute to fragmenting the hard drive? It seems to download the same stuff with some slight additions and changes each time I click on a page I've already been to including new pages and other sites.</p>

<p>I can't imagine what this does to my processor and hard drive. I'm sure all sites visited online have to download this, but is this the price that's paid to surf the web?</p>

<p>If so, I guess this is why you should have two separate computers, one for surfing the web and the other as a production workstation.</p>

<p>Wonder if there's been any research or studies on how much wear and tear surfing the web has on a computer. </p>

[jimadams]

<p>So...I take it the answer is "no", I can't remove the "social buttons" from <strong><a href="../photodb/user?user_id=1479418">this page</a></strong> in my Photo.net portfolio?</p>

[joshroot]

<p>At the moment you are correct, the answer is no.</p>