There's nothing more sad and somewhat pathetic than a "share on... " button with a single digit counter. Perhaps hide the counter if it's under configurable threshold?
For something unrelated, what's the point of code like this?<p><pre><code> <script>
(function() {
var hn = document.createElement('script'); hn.type = 'text/javascript';
hn.async = true; hn.src = 'http://hnbutton.appspot.com/static/hn.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(hn, s);
})();
</script>
</code></pre>
Why not just put in the generated script tag? Moreover, why does it matter where the tag is placed if it's loaded with async as opposed to defer?
Great! It would be awesome if it can be made to work with Wordpress (the vanilla hosted site). Or maybe I should just start blogging like a hacker[1, 2]...<p>[1] <a href="http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/11/17/blogging-like-a-hacker.html" rel="nofollow">http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/11/17/blogging-like-a-hac...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2011/08/Jekyll-amazon-s3.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2011/08/Jekyll-amazon-s3...</a>
Great work, but are you serving `hn.js` from a CDN like CloudFront, so in the event that your website goes down, it doesn't effect others. Also, the url the iframe calls: <a href="http://hnbutton.appspot.com/button?title=some-title&url=some-url" rel="nofollow">http://hnbutton.appspot.com/button?title=some-title&url=...</a>, how can we be sure that is always going to be available?
It's a nice button, but, nothing like have 2 HN, FB, Twitter, G+ buttons.<p>I don't think the "social sharing" idea behind all those buttons is smart at all. It allows for an eventual single winner only, and crap in between (and crap after the winner is "elected" since it wont be cool anymore, everyone will have to have a new button side by side)
I have just installed it to my blog (example: <a href="http://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/getting-things-done-for-devel..." rel="nofollow">http://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/getting-things-done-for-devel...</a>) however submit button never disappears. I would expect it to show 1 points. Can you show me a page that vote count actually works?