Sharing links to other services

[Thomas_Rother (Thommie Rother)]

Discourse offers the option to share Topic links. Aside from E-mail there are the social networks, currently Facebook and Twitter ( “share quote buttons”). Are there any plans to integrate other platforms like

• Pocket https://getpocket.com/de/saves
• Mastodon and MATRIX (federated)

These applications/networks are less commercial and respect privacy concerns better (which is more important here in Europe compared to the US).

Is anyone working on this or what needs to be done to get it implemented?

Bye, Thommie

[Stephen]

Did you check out the Social Share theme component?

[Falco]

Also worth mentioning that on mobile, it will use the native share sheet of your OS, so most of your users have a customized share button with all their apps in there already.

Introducing the Web Share API | Web | Google Developers

Ok, did a quick try at this while I was in the plane and after some cleaning up sent a pull request. Here is it in action:

[gde]

It’s a great theme component.
But unless I’m mistaking, I’m afraid though that it can’t really be used with federated services, like mastodon or matrix, where we would need different links.