[socialmedia] Fwd: Facebook

[Laura N]

About the book covers generated by PG. Some autistic people complained
about them at Mastodon since they have a sensory dysfunction and it seems
that our covers arrives in a distorted way in their brains.

Hope this helps in some way.

Laura

On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 19:16 Greg Newby via socialmedia <
socialmedia at lists.pglaf.org> wrote:

> Eric,
>
> Can you take a look at this? I wonder whether it's a timing issue, where
> the FB posting is made but the book landing page isn't available yet.
>   I created a github issue for this:
> https://github.com/gutenbergtools/ebookconverter/issues/45
>
> Christine, thank you! This is very helpful.
>
> I don't know what to say about the book covers... Eric wrote some code to
> make random ones, and they are only added when the eBook doesn't have its
> own cover scan. It would be possible for Eric's code to use less bright
> colors. I've never seen a complaint in the PG helpdesk inbox or elsewhere,
> so I wonder whether the complaints you see are not considerate and
> well-reasoned, but are just a byproduct of toxicity found on social media.
>
> Thanks again for thoughts on this.
>   ~ Greg
>
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 09:51:54AM +1100, Christine Bell wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > Please see four screenshot attachments of the most recent link that
> didn't
> > upload properly and how I fixed it. It had the correct book link which
> > works, but it lacks preview of title and book cover. After refreshing,
> it's
> > perfect.
> >
> > On another note, we've had plenty of complaints about these generic
> > blue/green book covers. It'd be good to use something more elegant, less
> > colourful.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Christine
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 9, 2023, 11:16 AM Greg Newby <gbnewby at pglaf.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for this, Christine. Apologies I didn't name you when I named
> Eric
> > > & Paul!
> > >
> > > I'm not sure I understand what the before- and after- looks like, when
> you
> > > fix links. If you can send a few details, perhaps with screenshots or
> > > examples, we can file an issue in github for Eric to consider.
> > >
> > > Thanks again.
> > >   ~ Greg
> > >
> > > On Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 10:38:27AM +1100, Christine Bell wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Not all entries are failing. I've been doing  "refresh share
> attachment"
> > > on
> > > > the New PG posts that didn't show the link and book cover correctly.
> > > > There's been approx two per day over the last week. I've fixed
> occasional
> > > > fails like this for years.
> > > >
> > > > It'd be great to have the automatic links fixed, if possible, thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Kind regards,
> > > > Christine
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 9 Dec 2023, 10:31 am Greg Newby via socialmedia, <
> > > > socialmedia at lists.pglaf.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Paul & Eric: can you take a look?
> > > > >
> > > > >   Thanks! Greg
> > > > >
> > > > > ----- Forwarded message from Jonathan Hutchins <
> hutchins at tarcanfel.org
> > > >
> > > > > -----
> > > > >
> > > > > From: Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org>
> > > > > To: help2023 at pglaf.org
> > > > > Subject: Facebook
> > > > > Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2023 17:07:57 -0600
> > > > >
> > > > > Something is munging the new book announcements on facebook.  They
> > > aren't
> > > > > showing covers, and some aren't even showing the title.
> > > > >
> > > > > Not complaining, you can't fix it if you don't know.
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Jonathan
> > > > >
> > > > > ----- End forwarded message -----
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