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So unfortunately the move to https effectively got rid of all of the Facebook comments as well as Social Media share metrics. I say effectively because even though they don't appear anymore, they still exist. This previously also effected any entry, photo, or video who had their name changed.

I want to recommend again that the field be changed to a static one so that each page that gets renamed doesn't hide all of the comments again. Seeing as how https://knowyourmeme.com/meme/[id] redirects to the current page name, we could use that as the standard for entries, photos, and videos and see if comments disappear. I'm pretty sure comments are tied to each profile and so unless the profile is deleted, the comment will stay regardless of the url.

Another page also recommends adding:

<meta property="og:url" content="http://example.com/post-url" />

to the head so that you can preserve share metrics, but if we use "https://knowyourmeme.com/meme/[id]" then we could possibly preserve future metrics to negate these name changes destroying further metrics.

The only problem with this method is that entries that use numbers for their names overtake the id redirects. If you go to knowyourmeme.com/memes/404 you get the entry for 404s and not the page with id 404. Same goes for +1 since it becomes knowyourmeme.com/memes/1.

It should work for any photos & videos though since they already use the id as part of their url, they just also tag on the entry to the end of the url if they are part of an entry.

(Thanks to Archaic for pointing this out.)

>facebook coments wiped
>treating it as if that's a bad thing

It's been nice knowing you Lisa…

Not really complaining since that just means one less avenue to shill obvious scams through spam.

>Worst comment section on site
>Nearly impossible to moderate
>Always politically-fueled hotbeds
This is a good thing.

So, the site is getting slowly modernized and up-to-date on its programming AND it killed comments that nobody cares about..? How is this not reason to celebrate, instead..?

Aww… I kind of liked how weird the Facebook comments could get at times, there were some hidden gems in there, let me tell you.


This one was in the National Coming Out Day entry.