Hello,
I'm Mervi Eskelinen!
An artist, nerd and sorcerer, dedicated to make world softer and better for everyone, and to get you to make more art. Make art, change the world!
Like something's wrong
All these buttons are giving me white hair. First the different tweet buttons and now Facebook Like. It used to be all fine, but all of a sudden a couple of days ago all the Like buttons started to show a count of 8 likes. All. Of. Them. Including the count on all the new blog posts, immediately after being released.
Today the count had climbed up to 9, which had happened as someone had actually tried to like one of my posts. Unfortunately this person (who happens to be my friend, including on Facebook) ended up liking my whole site instead of one of the posts. Well, that's not unfortunate, but I'm sure that wasn't his intention.
\
After a loads of digging I noticed that even if all the buttons send the correct url, Facebook seems to count them all as one and the same. At the moment the most plausible cause for this are the missing Open Graph meta tags. What bothers me about this is the problem didn't occur earlier and just started February 5th or sometime around there. I've now tried to tweak the meta tags, although Drupal isn't making this too easy (there's a module, but it's a bit unfinished product and doesn't add the tags on the front page of the site or on any views pages).
Will see if the problem gets somehow fixed now after I've included the new meta tags. If it doesn't, I guess I must just throw away the whole Like button. That's unfortunate, cause I do like Facebook. And the idea of making it easy for You to like the TB posts.
Update Feb 11: Now Facebook seems to think this page is actually the Facebook Developers page (FB is now somehow pulling open graph data from Facebook Developers in addition to this site). The whole thing is totally messed and weird. Had to remove the Like buttons.
Update Feb 13: Now the Like buttons work on some of the posts. FB has stopped pulling the data from Facebook Developers. Yay!
This is a reader supported blog without paywalls and advertisement. If you appreciate my work and want to help me rewild the internet, please consider becoming a free or paid patron today. I can't do this without the support of readers like you. So if you can to contribute financially, I would really appreciate your help.
