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[Aaron Wells <1391004@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kristina,

You mean Bug 1388665: "Use the favicon identification code for social
media profiles" ?

As I mentioned on that bug, we already use the same technique for
fetching favicons here as we do for the iframes. (Try adding
"flickr.com" as an iframe source and you'll see that it gets that same
globe icon.)

So for sites like flickr where our existing favicon service doesn't
work, our options are:

1. Add them to the hard-coded list of favicons.

2. Find some more robust way of fetching favicons. We could do it
ourselves instead of relying on Google, but finding out the favicon for
a site requires multiple HTTP requests, so we'd need to add a cacheing
system as well, and that would wind up being fairly complex, IMO not
worth it for such a minor bit of polish.

3. Let staff/admins manually specify the favicons for particular sites
(which is what I've suggested here)

4. Let end users manually specify the favicon for a social media
profile. Which I don't think would be acceptable UX. (Requires a file
upload widget on the social media account page, and most people wouldn't
know how to download the favicon from a site anyway.)

Cheers,
Aaron

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1391004

Title:
  Allow admin/staff to edit the list of suggested social media profiles

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  In Mahara 1.10, we changed the list of instant messaging accounts, to
  a list of social media accounts. I hard-coded in some currently
  popular ones, but the longer-term goal is to make this list
  configurable by the sysadmins or staff.

  They should have the ability to:

  1. Add new sites, specifying the site name, URL or username pattern,
  and optionally a favicon.

  2. Hide the hard-coded sites

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