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Now, the image that is shared is the hero image.
With this improvement:
-Customize with a different image to be shared in social networks through a section in Configuration (Backoffice)
If we have enough time:
-Possibility to customize an image for twitter and facebook through a section in Configuration (Backoffice).
This feature is funding by: BarcelonaEnergia (decidim.barcelonaenergia.cat)
This proposal has been rejected because:
After discussing and reviewing the PR for BarcelonaEnergia, we think that this should belong on their own module. One particular thing about this change is that there could be some missing APIs/contracts on decidim/decidim. For instance on this case we should make a partial only for this "Cards/OG/Twitter" metadata, now it's all on `app/views/layouts/decidim/_head.html.erb` and we should have a `app/views/layouts/decidim/_head_metadata.html.erb` or something similar.
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Conversation with Carol Romero
Hi, to better understand the need for this, can you explain a little more why you need the image to be different? At usability level it doesn't seem very suitable and we don't know any application that allows it.
Hi @product. The specific need is for BcnEnergia.
When you want to share the homepage on Social Networks (Facebook and Twitter), the image that is being shown to be shared is the existing ContentBlock Image.
We have been asked to change this image that is shared, without the need to change the image of ContentBlock.
Perhaps it was not clear before, but it would be a matter of being able to modify the image that is taken by default when sharing to social networks. Right now, if there is no image (Process Main Image for example), grab the ContentBlock image.
Have we explained well? Do you understand the need?
Yes, perfectly explained, thanks! We still think that this is not the general convention, so as it is a specific need of BE and you have already implemented it, it is better to leave it in its application.
I don't agree :/ We have the opportunity to customize the image according to the social network. The twitter card is not the same as the facebook card. From our experience we know that to get a real engagement with the participants the communication department has to be behind. Everything that is to facilitate a better communication I believe that it should be accepted :-D
I don't having such a capability would hurt at all. I'd probably make use of it in some cases as well.
Conversation with Antti Hukkanen
This is a request we constantly keep getting after implementing new instances of Decidim.
The default images do not scale well and in most cases, the designers want to fully control the image that gets shared on social media. They are not happy with an auto-cropped image that does not fit the constraints of each platform.
First step would be to have this as an organization setting. Second step would be to have similar possibility for each participatory space (which would use the organization default in case not defined).
Hi @ahu, I fully agree with you. As it's not accepted for Decidim master, we make a PR to Bcn Energia app. There you have the PR if you want -> https://github.com/CodiTramuntana/decidim-barcelona_energia-app/pull/12/files
Hi!
I'm afraid that if we implement this on Home then we'll need to implement this for consistency on every other pages and at least for me it's not clear how when we should stop: should we also allow on the future to change this data on Processes? Assemblies? Initiatives? Proposals?
I think ideally this kind of features should belong to a module, at least to try the experience and see the problems that we'll have. For instance on WP: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wonderm00ns-simple-facebook-open-graph-tags/
I think the real issue here is with image cropping generally, for instance one question I get a lot is "what's the size of the banner image?"
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