When I share a post via twitter it ads a query string e.g. ?u=[theusername] to the URL that is being shared. Is there a way to remove it?

Okay. If you still prefer to not having it add the below javascript in your discourse customization. It’s working fine for me as you wanted. jQuery( document ).ready(function() { $('#main').on('click', '.widget-button.share', function () { var url = $(this).attr('data-share-url'); var i = url.indexOf('?'); if(i > 0) url = url.substring(0, i); $(this).attr('data-share-url', url); }); });

It is useful option to know about who shared the link. Why would you like to remove that? Anyway you can check previous discussion here [image] Usernames in shared links break anonymity Feature I am fine with that as a PR, but you would automatically lose all the sharing badges (first share, nice share, good share, great share) if you disabled usernames there.

I prefer the links to be plain for crawlers, because canonical links are not always obeyed by Google crawler. It can be done using hash and send to the server via webservice, instead of doing t on the server by reading the query string. And regarding the link to the post, you better off using the userId, not the username.

[quote="Idan, post:3, topic:47446] I prefer the links to be plain for crawlers, because canonical links are not always obeyed by Google crawler. It can be done using hash [/quote] If you hash the name in some way, you’re still not getting a “clean” URL for Google to index. Also, do you have any authoritative source for the suggestion that the googlebot doesn’t always respect canonical URLs? That would be something of a bug in Google’s crawler, and something that could be reported to Google and fixed. [quote="Idan, post:3, topic:47446] and send to the server via webservice, instead of doing t on the server by reading the query string. [/quote] I don’t understand what you mean by this. If you mean that the fact that the link was clicked could be sent to the server via JavaScript, then no, it can’t, because it’s pretty rare for people to be able to include active content in the links they post elsewhere. [quote="Idan, post:3, topic:47446] And regarding the link to the post, you better off using the userId, not the username. [/quote] Why?

[image] mpalmer: Also, do you have any authoritative source for the suggestion that the googlebot doesn’t always respect canonical URLs? That would be something of a bug in Google’s crawler, and something that could be reported to Google and fixed. It is part of Google’s documentation on using canonical URLs.

[image] johnmuhl: It is part of Google’s documentation on using canonical URLs. Is this documentation available on the Internet?

Why I want to track which user shared posts on twitter. I think URLs should always be clean, both to crawlers and users.

[image] mpalmer: It is part of Google’s documentation on using canonical URLs. [image] mpalmer: Is this documentation available on the Internet? Here: [image] How to Specify a Canonical with rel="canonical" and Other Methods | Google... When a site has duplicate content, Google chooses the canonical URL. Learn more about canonical URLs and how to consolidate duplicate URLs.

I think I’ll just tell Google to ignore the query string in the webmaster tools

[image] mpalmer: Also, do you have any authoritative source for the suggestion that the googlebot doesn’t always respect canonical URLs? That would be something of a bug in Google’s crawler, and something that could be reported to Google and fixed. [image] johnmuhl: It is part of Google’s documentation on using canonical URLs. I think, in this case, Google will recognize that the canonical is just having the querystring removed, and is more likely to respect that than changing from the .../topicid/post to .../topicid?page=3 format.

I do believe that as well, and I don’t see it as a big issue, but as I said, I would prefer not having it. We actually have other things that we should work on, and this one has little or no priority.

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Idan July 20, 2016, 7:02am 13

Appreciate it a lot @vinothkannans

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