Promoting Projects on Social Media

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@raphael1c

And when I did it, the article showed up, perfectly formatted with a picture and teaser line in my Facebook feed.

Can you share what it is about the current link previews that you would like to change? Here is what it looks like on Facebook for a few things if you just copy/paste the URL:

An observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256166073

A project https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/norman-woods-bioblitz

and your 2024 Year In Review https://www.inaturalist.org/stats/2024/raphael1c

@raphael1c

I wonder if a “share” button might make a difference in promoting projects, and attracting people to the platform.

If you have a proposed addition or change to iNat, you can post to the Feature Requests category. Though this is what one staff member said a while ago:

@tiwane

For the web, I don’t see much of an advantage to having a button rather than copying and pasting the URL.