Improve Workflow for sharing of repo link

The latest user testing showed that most people are copy and pasting links rather than selecting ‘copy link’. Also, if you select ‘copy link’ it doesn’t revert back so that people can copy again.

We should re-design the display of the link, and may get rid of the button.

In this case, we should also add the repo fingerprint to the link to make sure people also copy it.

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Progress update...I definitely want to show the link as displayed here. I'm still working on the section about adding the repo to the phone.

I definitely want to show the link as displayed here.

Even if the link becomes long and ugly when it includes the fingerprint, I would still urge you to include it for security reasons. The fingerprint is used to validate the authenticity of the repository. Without it, a man-in-the-middle attack on the person adding the repo, can cause them to add a malicious repository that looks identical to the one they think they added.

Even if the link becomes long and ugly when it includes the fingerprint, I would still urge you to include it for security reasons.

I'm onboard. I think. ;) Links are ugly anyway. But showing it this way, is the easiest, most direct way for users to identify a link and what they are opening. How long are we talking here? 3 lines?

@grote @NicoAlt Design update.. I may do some word and spacing tweaking to the second mockup with all of the share language. Otherwise these are ready. The 'Get Instructions' link will link to a section within the Repomaker tutorial. The 'Learn More' under pirate box, may or may not be there. We don't really have anything to link to.

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But showing it this way, is the easiest, most direct way for users to identify a link and what they are opening. How long are we talking here? 3 lines?

At the moment, the fingerprint has fixed length, but the part before this can differ. Here's an example:

http://repomaker.grobox.de/repos/user_1/repo_1/repo/?fingerprint=70AD57196217AE47176499E186882E3AC62A88AEA0855BE567E11A6B5F00A082

And this is also the link you would be opening.

Maybe the last part can be shown grayed out or in a lighter color. Or maybe there's a trick to show it like repo?fingerprint..., but still copy the entire fingerprint when people copy'n'paste it. @NicoAlt maybe knows something.

Maybe the last part can be shown grayed out or in a lighter color.

I think we could do this:

<a href="..." class="rm-repo-link">
  http://repomaker.grobox.de/repos/user_1/repo_1/repo/
  <span>?fingerprint=70AD5...</span>
</a>

.rm-repo-link {
  span {
    color: grey;
  }
}

Or maybe there's a trick to show it like repo?fingerprint..., but still copy the entire fingerprint when people copy'n'paste it.

No, I don't know a way to achieve this. However we could expand the link when the user hovers it.