[Gimp-web] Which social media sites shall we support?
Andrew Toskin <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Nov 2015 23:09:16 -0800
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Let's move this topic to a separate topic. For the Share buttons at the bottom of blog posts, it's pretty easy to just add another link, and I think the limiting factor should be more about design -- a million little icons will make the page look cluttered. A solution to this which I like is to have a single Share button, which toggles the display of all the different social media icons. However, getting users to *subscribe* to our social media profiles means giving them content to follow -- and each extra social site makes reposting GIMP-related links more tedious. So we'll want to be strategic about which platforms we use: * We've talked before about Twitter and Google+. * Facebook is too big to ignore, I think. * Ello has the nicest visual design of any social media site I've seen, so I personally like it a lot. It's still fairly small and new, though. * Tumblr, Deviant Art, Instagram and maybe Pinterest have large communities of artists, so there are likely many GIMP users there. Flickr is maybe *too* focused on uploading original images to work for this sort of thing? But there is a somewhat active GIMP Users group already. ~Andrew T