Social bookmarking

Bruce Wayne · February 2, 2008

Checking through the vB website the 3.7 version has a social networking system in place that puts links to the likes of Digg, Stumbleupon etc. at the bottom of each thread, therefore making it easy for people to share the site/threads with others.

I can't quite see how to get it live on my own version despite activating it in my admincp. Any chance that they could be added on here (and then tell me how you did it :lol:

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Bruce Wayne · February 2, 2008

Ah, found it. In the thread options section of the admincp there is an option to turn it off/on. It's off by default.

GrandOldTeam · February 2, 2008

Just beat me to telling you (y)

I dont really get the whole thing so left it off for now... just enabled it to see how it goes? lol

Bruce Wayne · February 2, 2008

Yes, it will be interesting to see how it goes. They tend to fare a bit better for general topics, so football for instance would do well, whether Everton will I don't know. But if we have any users of any of the sites then they can deliver some really heavy traffic.

Dylan · February 2, 2008

No facebook?

GrandOldTeam · February 2, 2008

Can add some more - to be honest I dont see how they can be used to an advantage on a forum - i'd assume they are largely for articles/columns etc

Dylan · February 2, 2008

come on. the one that I use isn't up? But del.icio.us and stumbleupon are up! Stumbleupon is [Poor language removed]. I tried it out and not impressed.

I am now going to start a stumbleupon out facebook in campaign!!!

Bruce Wayne · February 2, 2008

Code:

<script>function fbs_click() {u=location.href;t=document.title;window.open('http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'&t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436');return false;}</script><style> html .fb_share_link { padding:2px 0 0 20px; height:16px; background:url(http://static.ak.facebook.com/images/share/facebook_share_icon.gif?55:26981) no-repeat top left; }</style><a href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=<url>" onclick="return fbs_click()" target="_blank" class="fb_share_link">Share on Facebook</a>

Is the Facebook code.

As for stumbleupon, I agree, I've never used it myself, but we regularly get 200+ visitors a day from it so it can't be that bad.