A thought I had this morning would take this in a very different direction, but thought I’d throw it out there for consideration in the future.
What if, instead of, or in addition to, this explicit link sharing, all links shared in any post were visible in one, centralized place?
In some ways, this would be similar to how the links are displayed in the topic summary, but with a UX that looks more like the topic list.
Metadata which could be shown alongside the link or in some expanded detail-view of the link:
- total aggregate clicks
- references back to the posts where they were originally shared
- who shared them
- how many times they have been shared
- when they were first and most recently shared