The discussion is about adding a “Highlight and share” feature to Discourse forums, similar to the one on Medium and Product Hunt. kam44 proposed this idea and codinghorror initially disagreed, suggesting that sharing the URL to the post is sufficient. However, sam suggested that this feature could be useful for anonymous users who cannot quote.
It appears that the feature has since been implemented by pmusaraj and is now available in the core. It is enabled by default for anonymous users, but can be enabled for all users via the share quote visibility site setting. The feature allows users to share highlighted text on Twitter, Email, or Facebook.
jord8on noticed the feature on the Discourse Meta Community and is interested in implementing it on their own forums. pmusaraj explained that the feature is available in the tests-passed branch and can be enabled via site settings. However, it is currently disabled on mobile devices due to native share functionalities.
Hi everyone,
I was on huffingtonpost and i saw this Highlight and share button :
I think it could be a good idea to add this feature besides the quote feature.
The best will be the same share feature than medium and producthunt, which create an image of the highlighted text :
Producthunt open sourced a tool to do that – GitHub - producthunt/ShareMeow: 😻 text shots service · GitHub
Why? You can simply share the URL to the post. Every Discourse post and topic has OpenGraph / oEmbed tags so it will display appropriately, with an automatic excerpt. Try pasting a link to a Discourse post in Facebook or Twitter to see what I mean. Like so
This would also make quoting more confusing, and elevate the rare use case – “I need to share just this third paragraph of the post” – above the simple use case – “I need to share this post”.
At best plugin material.
Yes you right.
It’s just that i (many) love this on medium & PH. And it’s a good way to better interact the forum cotent on social media.
One area that I think this would not be super confusing is if it was an “anonymous” user feature, anon can not quote anyway and this would make it easier for them to “share” a quote from the forum.
That said I agree, explore this first in a plugin.
很抱歉让这篇旧帖复活，但看起来 @kam44 提出的这个功能构想现在已经在 Discourse Meta 社区中启用了：
我尝试查找有关这个新功能的一些文档，但一无所获。能否有人指点我，让我能进一步了解我在 Meta 上刚注意到的这个功能？
我非常喜欢这个功能，也很希望在我们的论坛上也看到它！
这是 @pmusaraj 推出的新功能。相关公告主题即将发布。
是的，谢谢 Rafael，这现已成为核心功能的一部分。默认情况下，它仅对匿名用户启用，但您可以通过“分享引用可见性”站点设置为您的网站的所有用户启用：
另请注意，它可以针对 Twitter、电子邮件或 Facebook 启用，其中 Facebook 需要将应用 ID 添加到“Facebook 应用 ID
我看到这个功能现在在 Meta 的桌面版上已经可以用了（不过手机端还不能用）……它是否已经在测试版中可用？
是的，它在 tests-passed 分支中可用。您应该能在我之前发布的帖子截图中看到网站设置。
该功能在移动端完全禁用，因为 iOS 和 Android 在选中文本时均提供原生分享功能。
