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. <script> jQuery( document ).ready(function() { $('#main').on('click', '.widget-button.share', function () { var url = $(this).attr('data-share-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…

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 us…

[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 …

[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 usi…

[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, Go…

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’…

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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DeanMarkTaylor (Dean Taylor) Juillet 20, 2016, 2:02 8

Here:

Sujet		Réponses	Vues
When sharing a topic Support	5	822	Février 1, 2019
"Share a link" for a post should not leak username Feature completed	26	5841	Septembre 22, 2022
Why do all shared links include the username (u=username) Feature	2	1218	Mars 29, 2017
Per-user opt-in of appending the username on link sharing Feature	19	2279	Février 24, 2023
Stop appending ?username to url when badge system disabled? Feature	1	783	Septembre 28, 2020

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