# Sharing on website or Facebook

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/sharing-on-website-or-facebook/5605>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [March 20, 2020, 6:08am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sharing-on-website-or-facebook/5605 "2020-03-20T06:08:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![JMD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f1d935/32.png) [@JMD](https://community.glideapps.com/u/JMD)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 6:08am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sharing-on-website-or-facebook/5605/1 "2020-03-20T06:08:30Z")

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I’m having issues with sharing the URL for my App using Facebook.  
If I simply copy the link from the Share button in Glide, I’m given:

> **[Dance Explosion App](https://dew2020.glideapp.io/)**
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> Information for Dance Explosion Wollongong's October event.

If I send that in Messenger, it doesn’t tell the user to ‘add to home screen’  
If I put the link on FB it is not a link (I added HTTP:// to the beginning of the URL and that gave me a nice link with image, however when people tap on it again it doesn’t display the ‘add to screen’ popup window.  
What am I missing? If I send to a person using iMessage it works perfectly.  
Thanks, Jeanette

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 6:29am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sharing-on-website-or-facebook/5605/2 "2020-03-20T06:29:54Z")

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Facebook has its own internal browser, which isn’t compatible with PWA apps. The link needs to be opened in Safari on IOS or Chrome on Android. Here is a prior thread that discusses this.

> [@"Add to home screen button" not popping up](https://community.glideapps.com/t/add-to-home-screen-button-not-popping-up/3347/20):
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> Same chrome version here. Interesting though, I’m have the same result with your app. No popup and the Add to Homescreen creates a web shortcut instead. Can you add a second tab to see if that makes it act differently? There must be something that’s not making it register as a PWA.

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**Author:** ![JMD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f1d935/32.png) [@JMD](https://community.glideapps.com/u/JMD)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 6:53am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sharing-on-website-or-facebook/5605/3 "2020-03-20T06:53:55Z")

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Oh No! Doesn’t seem to be any workaround!

I can see that FB and Messenger don’t open the link in the browser. Not sure what to do!

While I have you there, the link on Glide ‘Share’ is [dew2020.glideapp.io](http://dew2020.glideapp.io) should I be adding http:// to the beginning? If I don’t on FB it is not a link, but is in Messenger. If I add http:// to the beginning FB sees it as a link. So bit confused as to what the link should be.  
Thanks again, Jeanette

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**Author:** ![Christophe\_HK](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/christophe_hk/32/4161_2.png) [@Christophe\_HK](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Christophe_HK)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 7:06am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sharing-on-website-or-facebook/5605/4 "2020-03-20T07:06:06Z")

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Hello,

Just one thing, if you have to or need to add a prefix, add https instead of http.

Cheers

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 11:40am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/sharing-on-website-or-facebook/5605/5 "2020-03-20T11:40:58Z")

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I agree with https vs http. Just add whatever works. It ultimately is the same link and gets you to the same place.
