[socialmedia] Facebook

[Eric Hellman]

OK, the reason I didn't see the problem before is that Christine had fixed it with "refresh share attachment".

There's no timing issue. For example, "in the name of Time"  was created at 10:01 this morning and the facebook post was made at 10:21:11
We could check our logs to see if there were server response time issues at that time, but it seems not. We can check the logs to see when facebook first loaded the image. It's conceivable that our load balancer doesn't like traffic from the facebook unfurl caching bot.

Update: the PG site has gotten slow right now! I bet that's the issue.

More likely the problem is the facebook unfurl cache having issues. Nothing we can do about that.

The code for the generative covers was developed by a team at New York Public Library. I fixed a few issues relating to encoding and long titles.

BTW, I switched gutenberg new to the icon we're been using for the analogous service on mastodon. So far the reactions are 26 likes and 1 "you moved my cheese!"


> On Dec 10, 2023, at 2:16 PM, Greg Newby <gbnewby at pglaf.org> wrote:
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> Eric,
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> 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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