YJL

Agile Share ℁ is a social buttons service.

I wanted to provide those buttons in a way on this blog and that’s how Agile Share was born. The interesting thing is I will not be a user of it as you may know I am not a fan of social networking websites.

Sometimes, I wonder if there really is a person using those big, chubby, fitting-in-one-place-but-not-another-one-style, might-too-big-or-too-small, and just-could-not-put-them-altogether buttons. Maybe just me being the only unsatisfied customer?

One out of a hundred clicking rate, perhaps? or even lower? I just couldn’t believe that one will click on the button even he or she manage to find where the button is located if there actually has one. Anyway, I spent a night to create Agile Share.

The source code is hosted on GitHub and it has its own domain name as.yjl.im using GitHub Pages with CNAME.

The name Agile Share was chosen just to match the symbol ℁, which I found on Letterlike Symbols page and looks quick unusual. I had never seen ℁ before, which means “Addressed to the Subject.” Only one character to represent Agile Share, I like that.

I think you can see “simplicity” is the keyword of this project. It does not provide any widgets for HTML embedding since the whole point is to avoid having bloating code in your web pages. If you have seen those button services, they provide hundreds of buttons, but you have probably only used less than five at the whole time. It’s hard to imagine that there are so many social networking and bookmarking websites. I only pick a few which has better support and noticeable huge amount of users.

On Agile Share, you can edit the URL at any time you prefer, the provided buttons will be updated accordingly. Each service has its own page, there may be some new alternate options in the future. For now, they are all is about one button plus one counter.

Agile Share also provide a bookmarklet, that seems like a necessity. I think a bookmarklet is better than website being messed up by those buttons.

I hope more people will drop using those big chunk of buttons. If your website is popular, then the readers don’t necessarily need to know how many times the pages have been shared; if sadly unknown to public, then no reasons to waste time on loading and bandwidth for those buttons.

^a simple link _sure can do the job.