I have a Blogger blog and I used to have Blogger's own comment system in it. I didn't like some parts of it, so I tried changing to Google+ comments instead.
I have no problems with the comment box, it's implemented well, works fine, etc. But when I had Blogger comments, I could see the newest comments my visitors had posted site-wide and I also received email notifications when someone posted a comment in any post of my blog.
However, now, with Google Plus comments, I don't seem to get any sort of notification. (no emails, not even that alert thingy on top-right corner of Google that only ever shows Youtube comments I don't care about) And, also, I know of no way to check the most recent comment in my website.
I kind of need either of these features (most recent / notifications) so I can reply to people when they post comments on my blog. After all I got dozens of posts it's not viable to check every single one of them for new comments every single day.
How can I view the most recent Google plus comments within a website? Or at least receive an email when there is a new Google plus comment posted in my website?
P.S.: I'm not interested in an API for these. There should be an actual user interface somewhere for these things, right?
As it currently stands, this feature has not worked since October 2016.
According to a post by a Google Employee in the official Blogger Forum on 2nd February 2017 -
Hi all,
Thanks for posting.
Just wanted to let you know that the concerned team is aware of this
issue and is working on it. I will keep you all posted as soon as I
get an update from them.
Best,
Theo
Any updates regarding this issue will be likely posted in the above forum thread
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In 2020 aprox Google introduced the option to pin an announcement at the top of the list (in the main page of the classroom), manually is an option inside the colon menu after you create an announcement.
I 'd need to use this option in a script, because I need to pin a document with rules in every classroom I have, but I can't find any reference in Classrooms API.
Can someone help me?
I do not believe this is possible programmatically at this time as there is no reference in the API to be able to do so with either announcements or course work materials, as you mentioned. I had looked to try to accomplish the same thing and came to the conclusion it's not yet supported. You could post this as a feature request in the Classroom issue tracker, I'm surprised I don't already see it there: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues?q=componentid:191645%20status:open
One alternate solution to make course work added via script easier to access as it gets pushed down the classroom feed is to make it posted to it's own topic:
https://developers.google.com/classroom/reference/rest/v1/courses.topics
I noticed some new settings in the Google Group Settings API...were these announced? Where should we look for such announcements?
I assume you're referring to spam moderation and include in GAL? No, they weren't announced to my knowledge. Google's getting better at announcing changes but they still slip in updates like this from time to time with no way of knowing till you happen to find it buried in ref. docs.
I suggest tracking the doc pages where possible. I use ChangeDetection.com to get email notifications when reference docs get updated.
This particular change wasn't announced anywhere except for the updated reference docs. Often changes are posted to the Developer's Blog at http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/, just not for this.
We've had facebook comments via the social plugin implemented for some time on our website, on a per-article basis. Occasionally, an article 'dumps' all its comments. They still show up in the app moderation back end, but none of them permit 'Visit Website'. They may be approved, but they no longer appear on the article page, though they will still show up on the poster's facebook if they chose to post to their wall. This seems to happen the most on 'noisier' articles, but I suspect that to be the result of more posters meaning more people to notice the disappearance. The article will then accept new comments normally, but all old comments seem to be permanently lost.
Obviously, changing the canonical URL for the article would cause this. However, we've had it happen on articles I do not believe changed. Is there anything else that can cause comments to become disassociated from the article that I could possibly correct? Can this happen if the URL (not canonical!) changes? For SEO purposes we have the article headlines in the URLs, but the plugin is set to a canonical url without the headline to avoid disruption if the headline is updated. Is that enough?
You should think of the URL for an article as a unique string identifier for the comments plugin. The URL defined should be unique (only for one page). The formatting of the URL doesn't matter. However, even the slightest change in the URL will disrupt the comments plugin because now the string is technically different. I'm not sure what else could be causing your issue.
It may help to reread the documentation on the comments plugin here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comments/
We're looking at a comment system for a corporate brand website on product pages. We've been leaning towards LiveFyre over Facebook Comments because of the potential to reach other social media markets such as Twitter.
However, we don't fully understand how it works and what the implication would be if we chose to migrate away from it at a later stage? Where are the comments stored and if we switched to Disqus or Facebook Comments later, would the comments be kept?
Here was the official response from LiveFyre after I emailed them:
"My apologies, I must have missed that you were not on WordPress. At the moment, there is no storage of non-WordPress site's comments, but an API is in development to import and export those comments. While I don't have an exact ETA on that feature, definitely keep an eye on blog.livefyre.com for updates as we'll be posting them there first!"
Now, I see many apps that will say "started using [Name of App] "Is that simply a call to StreamPublish or is there a new function call to achieve this?
I am currently using facebook to allow people to log in with their facebook accounts similar to turntable.fm and then going to my webpage. How do I make it so that other friends can see that they started to use the application, I have not been able to find this anywhere.
There is a setting on your application for "social discovery". Enable it and those posts will show up.
sorry, this is not an answer but clarification of the questions and answers (I don't seem to have enough points to be able to comment)
Firstly I'd like to say that if you are developing a Facebook app this would seem to be a very important question as it would have a huge impact on the virality of your app. It would mean that every single registered user is potentially advertising your app to each of their friends. Without out this happening your only options for viral spread through facebook are:
asking for 'publish_stream' permission and using the 'Post to wall' API call. Asking for this may deter many users from using your app in the first place.
User initiated sharing (like button, post to wall). Unless your app was amazingly awesome you'd be lucky to get a 5% rate with this (as opposed to the 100% rate you'd get with the mysterious 'started using' feed post)
I created a fake account for testing, created a facebook app (as a webpage, not as a facebook app/iframe), made sure social discovery was enabled, but I could not see any activity on my ticker or my feed. However, I did learn that there is a thing called the 'canvas ticker' which is completely separate from the 'main' ticker and can be seen when you use any facebook iframed-app. A notice did appear in the 'canvas ticker' but it said 'a is using b' not 'a started using b'. Getting a message on the 'canvas ticker' is not nearly as significant as getting a 'main ticker' or news feed post as relatively few people use 'facebook iframe apps'. I thought that this is what I must have remembered seeing (not seeing 'started using' in my news feed or main ticker), so I gave up worrying about it.
However, recently I started using Graph API Explorer http://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/ and a 'started using' post appeared in my alter-ego's news feed. That is exactly what I remember seeing with other apps ('started using' rather than 'is using') but it seems to be quite a rare occurance. I'm not sure if anything appeared in my alter-ego's main ticker.
Now I am really confused. This feels alot like figuring out how google's pagerank algorithm works.
update:
this link has proved quite useful: http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/410
I think 'started playing' only applies if you app is set to having the 'games' category. Apparently these 'started playing' stories only show on the newsfeeds of people who have already started playing the game. So they can't really be of much use to gaining new users (as only user who are already using the app see it). However, the blog post states,
"By showing fewer but more impactful News Feed stories based on
friends’ activity and social context, we hope to drive new user growth
for games. For example, instead of the typical story saying that
someone just bought a new item, it could say “Dave, Jonny and 3 other
friends” just started playing a game."
I am really confused by this. How can the 'started playing' story possibly 'drive new user growth' if they only appear to people who are already playing??
The 'x started using Graph API Explorer' seems to be a really odd one. I think because it's an app made by Facebook it has special priority and that's why it showed as a story in all of my friends's newsfeed. I've been installing a lot of non-game apps to see if the 'started using' story appears but I could not find one that did. I'm now not sure if I ever remember seeing a 'started using' story. I installed games such as Farmville and Sims Social and yes i did see a 'started playing' story on my alter ego's newsfeed.
Why is that incredibly hard to find blog post above not part of the official documentation? And why doesn't the blog post explain exactly how things work with good and thorough examples instead of being really vague. I think every app should have an equal chance for viral growth without having to spend hours conducting psuedo scientific experiments with fake user accounts just to figure out how things works because the documentation is poor. I'm sure players like Zynga have the resources to figure out facebook inside and out but this is getting really frustrating as a sole developer.
This is why I'm hoping for a day when the prominent social network's code is open source. Nothing beats being able to directly read the source code when documenation is poor. That is one of the great things about open source.
Hey this is a common question I hear from my clients whom I write FB apps for.
It's called the FB User Discovery Story and it's automatic. Facebook eventually enables it for applications. There's nothing you can do to make sure it's displayed and it's visibility is effected by the evoking users privacy settings as well as the receiving users settings.
Also, note that it does not require your application being in the app directory.
The new facebook application interface allows you toggle the feature on and off but it still relies on the users settings as well.