Implement a "Shared" counter

[phillipadsmith]

Per Basecamp thread, the request is to implement a count of shares across networks and display that on article pages, presumably near the share tools.

@robynleighsmith Can you put links to the examples we looked at in the office here?

[robynleighsmith]

I think we just looked at the Guardian and the CBC. Not sure how either are calculated.

In the two examples below, both of the share options are on the left.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/02/chlorine-attack-syria-dozens-ill-saraqeb-idlib

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/obama-trump-1.3704157

[MrBryan]

OK here it is in testing mode (should show up in any story you newly test with the numbers that actually will show if it went live.

The free version is limited to 10,000 views per day or something so we'd need the $40 a month version that does up to 200,000 ( we get around 30,000 pageviews from memory..)

http://preview.thetyee.ca/Opinion/2016/08/05/Farewell-to-Mel-Hurtig/

[MrBryan]

We could add the count of the email to friend likely with a little effort if that is significant - currently it's counting facebook (shares - likes also available), twitter, linkedin, reddit.

[robynleighsmith]

Thanks Bryan. To be crystal clear, what does this version count, specifically? Just Facebook shares? Does it cost more to count likes? And to include the other share numbers?

[MrBryan]

Nope it costs the same just more code to add facebook likes - it counts all that I listed above you probably typed that before my second comment :)

[MrBryan]

We have all the numbers separately I'm just adding them up -- could do something like this alternately:

[MrBryan]

and when i say newly test, I mean that if you preview a story from bricolage the number should show up now

[MrBryan]

the number for the live version of the story

[MrBryan]

it breaks the toolbar onto two lines for mobile so that will have to be tweaked just think of this as a draft for comment