Pasting Sphere URLs into Medium articles and Facebook posts and comments
(and quite soon into other social media feeds and scenarios)
Thortspace public sphere URLs will now automatically supply feature graphics or thumbnails when posted in Medium articles or Facebook posts or comments.
Here’s some examples of pasting Thortspace sphere URLs into Medium.com articles:
Pasting this link — https://thort.space/185637003 — onto a new line in a Medium article and pressing return, generates the following link box on Medium:
Pasting this link — https://thort.space/78287010 — onto a new line in a Medium article and pressing return, generates the following link box on Medium:
Pasting this link — https://thort.space/92817003 — onto a new line in a Medium article and pressing return, generates the following link box on Medium:
The public sphere lists
The public sphere lists, provide lots of examples of pasted spheres URLs into Medium articles:
- Public spheres, March 2019
- Public spheres, February 2019
- Public spheres, January 2019
- Public spheres, December 2018
- Public spheres, November 2018
- Public spheres, October 2018
- Public spheres, September 2018
- Public spheres, August 2018
- Public spheres, July 2018
- Public spheres, June 2018
- Public spheres, May 2018
- Public spheres, April 2018
- Public spheres, March 2018
- Public spheres, February 2018
- Public spheres, January 2018
- Public spheres, December 2017
- Public spheres, November 2017
- Public spheres, October 2017
- Public spheres, September 2017
- Public spheres, August 2017
- Public spheres, July 2017
- Public spheres, June 2017
Here’s some examples of pasting Thortspace sphere URLs into Facebook posts and comments:
You can check and update the Facebook cache for the feature graphic that will appear on Facebook by going to the the Facebook Scraping debugger (shown below), posting the URL into the text box (next to the debug button) and then clicking the Debug button. If you have posted the same URL before, you will probably need to use the “Scrape Again” button to update the graphic for that URL.
By the way:
Support for Permalinks
All of the above procedures and scenarios also work with Thortspace permalinks (links which point to specific Thorts, Groups and Viewpoints of spheres).
For example, this link — https://thort.space/38357003/arrangement/0-0/view/0.157579,0.967217,0.199148/up/0.973383,-0.118148,-0.196386/zoom/543.8233/trans/1 — produces the follow link panel:
Note that when you create and paste or post a permalink, the feature graphic provided is the standard feature graphic for the sphere. It is not the exact same view of the sphere as the permalink gives you when it is clicked on, but it is a view of that same sphere from a distance that keeps the whole of sphere within viewpoint shown in the graphic.
These features do not as yet work with Twitter. Also please note that Thortspace Journeys are not yet enable to provide feature graphics and thumbnail pictures. Support for Twitter and for Thortspace Journeys will be coming quite soon. Check back on this article for updates on this, or join the Thortspace Facebook group to get ongoing news and community information about Thortspace.
