Linking to Facebook

[jonathonball]

This is really more of a suggestion for HardOCP.

I love [H] and want to support you guys as much as possible, so when I read news on your site that I want to share with others, I feel you deserve the ad hits. Sharing a link from [H] to Facebook is a multi-step process that seems like it could be way less of a pain in the ass.

Here's the process:
1. Find a link you want to share to Facebook and copy it to your clip board.(example
2. Paste the link into the "What's on your mind" box in Facebook
3. Wait for Facebook to recognize the link. At this point notice that it serves up information about [H] in general, not the specific article you are trying to share.

4. Double-click the article title (green box in my pic) and either type or paste in the title.
5. Double-click the synopsis (red box in my pic) and either type or paste in any witticisms from Steve.
6. Scroll through the Thumbnails fruitlessly and eventually settle on a [H] logo (that again, doesn't have anything to do with the article you are linking)
7. Click post

Work-around: Follow the above procedure, or bypass Kyle completely and paste the source link directly which *usually* means you can skip steps 4-6.

Solution: Change things so that Facebook's discovery automatically populates the correct fields.

Better solution: Give us a "Share" button that doesn't take us away from the site at all. (Similar to the Google+ button that's already in place.)

Food for thought.

 

[jonathonball]

For the record, here is how the above link looks pasted directly from the source:

 

[FrgMstr]

Yes, this has been broken for months now. I am aware and have made our system admin aware on multiple occasions.