Hi, I’m new & don’t really know what category this belongs in, but I’d love to have the option of removing the “Enable Facebook Login” on my User page, since I don’t use (or like) Facebook. Any help would be much appreciated.
system
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There are a lot of ‘‘features’’ I could also do without, but custom engineering individual’s userpages and talkpages is a pretty tall order, and probably won’t fly. I, for one, though, think it is a super idea!
Shinako
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Though I don’t use Facebook either, but I don’t see as to what problem it causes to anyone…? It’s very tiny so it is not probably a eyesore. I personally don’t mind that button at all.
I don’t think that Wikihow should be providing free advertising for any company (especially a profit-making one like fb), and having no option for those who aren’t interested in fb to remove that “enable fb login” message there is like a form of persistent advertising. Is there a way to send a request directly to the engineers/webmasters?
wikiHow generates income by showing ads, but these are hidden when you registered an account. Additionally, the site operates as a hybrid organization. More information can be found at wikiHow:Hybrid Organization - wikiHow
and wikiHow:Why Hide Ads - wikiHow
I’m not sure I understand how this “Enable Facebook login” could be interpreted as advertising. Based on your logic, displaying the Twitter, G+, etc icons would be a form of passive advertising for these platforms…? I agree with Shinako that those not interested in connecting their Facebook account to wH could easily just ignore the button. I haven’t connected my accounts and I don’t mind seeing that button.
system
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I like the idea of being able to hide what you don’t want, but providing that option would mean devoting precious engineering time to it, which could be better spent elsewhere. It will be a handy option, but as of now, the Facebook button isn’t that big of a problem that it requires a team of engineers to develop a removal option for the same. Is it really that big of an eyesore anyway? Ignoring it seems to be the way to go. I don’t think the button is a form of advertising. If it is, every website on the web is advertising Facebook. I will be interested to see whether this idea will pass, but judging by the lacklustre interest in it so far, I guess it wont. Ignoring it is the only option, I guess.
system
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Every item, widget, or function that is displayed on a page is a certain amount of data that has to be transferred from the server to a receiving device, whether a laptop like mine, a PC, Mac, or smartphone. When you “suffer” from limited bandwidth, as I do, eliminating what in my case is useless clutter might not have a tremendous benefit, but in the process of loading hundreds of pages every day, it does seem significant to me. I can easily agree, also, that we are entitled not to like the facebook button if we so choose.
Anna
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I can definitely sympathize with both of you in wanting to cut out the clutter in life - and load time! It’s the hovering buttons on some sites that get me - the ones that follow you around wherever you go on news sites and so on
Unfortunately BR is right that we don’t have the engineering bandwidth to provide options for customizing each person’s user pages, and lots of users do use Facebook login here. Luckily it’s a pretty discrete button - I hope it doesn’t bug too much! But yes, Bob, you are very entitled not to like it, hah!
If a user does want to log-in with fb and clicks that button, does that button then disappear for them? I just find it annoying that it remains there until and unless the user decides to bow to its insistent demand.
So (just to be clear) “enable fb login” just stays there, even if the user enables it? Seems like it should have a “yes/no” option & it would be a once-only thing.
KetsuiS
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I agree with Shinako. And, if we did not display the fb button thing, there would be less money to help keep the site up and running well. I do not use the button, but I am fine as it is
Some people commenting above have mistakenly assumed that my proposal is for enabling individual customization of user pages. That’s not correct. My proposal is simply to tweak the *universal userpage template* to allow the “enable fb login” thing to be dismissed (or for it to disappear after the user selects ‘yes’ or ‘no’). It remains a download-wasting eyesore for some of us.
Nate848 wrote: “…if we did not display the fb button thing, there would be less money to help keep the site up and running well…” Incorrect according to Illneedasaviour’s post above. The fb enable login thing is not one of the ads that disappear post-registration, so it (apparently) doesn’t generate any money for wikihow.
Illneedasaviour wrote: “…I’m not sure I understand how this “Enable Facebook login” could be interpreted as advertising. Based on your logic, displaying the Twitter, G+, etc icons would be a form of passive advertising for these platforms…?” Except that (1) the latter are prefaced by “Follow us [i.e. Wikihow] on…” which makes it clear that their presence is more about using Wikihow than it is about using some other corporation’s social media platform, (2) they’re all grouped together in a less prominent location on the page (than the fb login thing), (3) they’re all uniformly sylized. Currently, the fb corporation has its own special (and, apparently, permanent) spot near the top of the page. Is it really that difficult for fb users to login to Wikihow directly? And if they must do it via fb, isn’t there an fb Wikihow page that can act as a portal?
I agree with Philologia that we should not advertise for free websites like FB. Why the most websites are so obssessed with providing a link to FB on their sites anyway?? Besides a free advertisement Facebook is NOT known for its good security. We can click on this link by pure accident and chances are FB will remember our cache and cookie and take advantage of it. Be sure of it. Good idea to remove this button, but I know wH will not . I wish we, the users, decided which links to keep on our userpage and which one not to. I am with you regarding this unneeded FB button, @Philologia
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Thanks Laura7491, those are even more good reasons. At the very least, could they not move the button down to a less prominent place on the page? That doesn’t seem like too much to ask. :s
