Send a quote to social media discussion highlights the need for a feature to easily share quotes from Discourse posts on social media platforms. David_Baker1 proposes that users should be able to highlight a passage and share it on social media, including the author’s handle and a link to the original post. sam suggests showing a “Share” option instead of “Quote” for anonymous users who highlight text.
Codinghorror supports the idea of making the “Share” option contextually smarter for anonymous users. Pad_Pors references Feverbee as an example of simplifying quote sharing and proposes additional scenarios, such as allowing high-level users to select a part of their post to show to anonymous users with a share button, and adding a share button in the composer for logged-in users.
As a reader who finds a funny or interesting passage in a topic post I’d like to highlight it and (in addition to reply-to-quote) have a way to send that quote to a social media site to draw others into the topic and to reward the writer for good stuff. Ideally the social media posting would include the quote but also the social media handle of the post writer and a link back into the Discourse posting I pulled the quote from.
I think the writer would also appreciate getting this exposure to their writing.
I have mentioned this before in another topic, what I would like to see is that if “anonymous user” highlights text instead of showing “Quote” like we do for logged in users we should show “Share” that allows you to easily share the quote.
and a scenario may be to let high level users select one part of their post, and show it to anonymous users in a stronger way than other texts, perhaps with the share button above the text by default:
Also for logged in users, a share button in the composer can help writers share instantaneously to their social media:
