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Ask HN: "Like" buttons for blogs that respect privacy and ownership
I'd love to have something that allows readers to "thank" me for an article they've read, and I like what Svbtle and similar CMSes offer.
I don't want to use anything awful from the perspective of privacy and data ownership like Facebook, Google+, etc., but just something very simple that increments a number for each post in some kind of database stored somewhere to give me an idea of what people like, and to serve as a simple reward mechanism.
Have you rolled your own somewhere, or is there a service that is as simple and respectful of users as well as blog owners out there?
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- minimaxir 13y agoI've compromised by rolled my own Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn buttons on my own site: http://minimaxir.com http://minimaxir.com Although there is still data collection when the article is shared, there is no tracking while the user is simply visiting the page, so it's a compromise in user-friendliness and user-privacy. I use jQuery to retrieve the counts, since those 3 services have unofficial endpoints for retrieving Share count when given a URL. (Google+ does not. No big loss.)
- kmfrk 13y agoData collection (for the blog owner's back-end, anyway) is fine; besides, most people probably host their static pages on github.io or S3, which don't really allow for SSL, and as long as we aren't talking about "weird" blog articles, end-to-end encryption isn't a big concern of mine in this case.
- codegeek 13y agoI have seen this on svbtle blogs called "kudos" https://github.com/masukomi/kudos https://github.com/masukomi/kudos