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Map preview missing in Facebook post thumbnail when activity is shared.

serban
over 2 years ago

Until recently I was able to get a proper FaceBook Post with the map preview in the thumbnail if I was sharing the running activity from the "Garmin Connect" website.

The last time this worked ok for me was in August 2022.

The next time I re-tried it was in October, and the preview is changed: the info are still there (distance, time, pace), but the map-preview image is missing.

Anybody know if this is a known issue ? Any chances for it to get fixed soon ?

Thanks.

(PS. from the Android App, this never worked for me, I was always sharing the activity from the web client...)

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    I've been chatting with support and it sounds like they made a decision to stop sharing the map for privacy reasons. Which makes no sense since someone can click through and see the activity and the map in much more detail anyway. It accomplishes nothing. Plus, if someone is concerned, they can set up a privacy zone in their account settings.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Since this was something Garmin did intentionally and seems to be resistant to changing back, if you want it back, you should tell them. You can suggest it at www.garmin.com/.../

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to DETHIER1958

    That info from the support doesn't make any sense, the Embed options with a map are still working, if they wanted mini maps removed, then they would just do it. This looks like a bug as only some sharing options have some problems.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to BunBun!

    Embed gives you an iframe that you could include on a website. I don't think you can use that to share to Facebook. If you copy and paste that link to Facebook, and remove the iframe, it doesn't give you the preview map.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to DETHIER1958

    Could be, that's why there are few share options, but as mini map is still included with embed option, then they clearly didn't want to remove it.

    And also as mentioned earlier, you can manually initiate the function which generates a mini map, and then try to share, maybe creating thumbnail just takes too long, so a post is shared before thumbnail is finished.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to BunBun!

    Sharing to Twitter has the same problem. It does not show the route preview, only a generic Garmin image. Using the Facebook debugger on the post to show what was shared, it shows that the image comes from Garmin as part of the sharing. If I share an activity link from Strava, the preview image in Facebook is the route (although badly cropped on the top and bottom).

    I just want the sharing to work properly and show the route as the preview image. I may resort to doing a screenshot and using that as the image and posting manually, but that is much more work.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to DETHIER1958

    If manual start for mini map works, then you can change it to a bookmark.

    Make it read current URL:

    var i = jQuery.getJSON(window.location.href.replace('modern','modern/proxy/activity-service') + '/share');

    Add javascript: then you can run it by clicking.