{"id":375,"date":"2016-01-27T23:11:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T23:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/judgeapps\/?p=375"},"modified":"2018-02-14T14:25:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T14:25:18","slug":"improved-event-links-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/judgeapps\/2016\/01\/27\/improved-event-links-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Improved Event Links on Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever seen a Facebook post like this?<\/p>\n

\"Old<\/a> <\/p>\n

Those words “Log In” sure are annoying, aren’t they? Wouldn’t it be nicer if Facebook just showed you the actual name of that cool event you want to apply to?<\/p>\n

Now it does!<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a><\/p>\n

Many thanks to JudgeApps team member Jernej Lipovec<\/a><\/span><\/span> for figuring out an elegant way to implement this improvement. I’d also like to give a shout out to Lems<\/a><\/span><\/span> and John Kmiecik<\/a><\/span><\/span> for both suggesting the enhancement. (If you have a feature request, please let us know!<\/a>)<\/p>\n

One big takeaway: make sure you teach your local judges and Tournament Organizers to use informative titles! The picture above is a good example of what not<\/em> to name your event. Something like “Preliminary Pro Tour Qualifier – Sydney 2016 – Nymeria Comics” is much more descriptive!<\/p>\n

Interested in the technical details of this change? Well, before today, JudgeApps required you to log in before it would cough up any information about events. Since Facebook doesn’t have a JudgeApps login, links on Facebook would always get bounced out to the Log In page.<\/p>\n

But now, thanks to Jernej’s fix, JudgeApps will reveal the title of an event even if you’re not logged in, which allows Facebook to use this information accordingly. Hooray!<\/p>\n

Note that the event title will be shown if and only if<\/em> the event has been published. So you don’t have to worry about this change “leaking” information about events that haven’t been published yet!<\/p>\n

Sadly, links previously published on Facebook have been cached, so their titles can’t be changed. But links for all events going forward should look great!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Look at your Facebook links. Now look at JudgeApps. Now back to your Facebook links. I’m on a blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"language":[11],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/judgeapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/judgeapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/judgeapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/judgeapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/judgeapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/judgeapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/judgeapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/judgeapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/judgeapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/judgeapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/judgeapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}