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mjau-mjau wrote:I can confirm this issue, and it is something Facebook changed in the API ...

Basically, it works like this: When Imagevue shares an image with Facebook, it sends a link to a "landing page" for the specific image where Facebook normally (earlier) draws its information (title+thumbnail+description). From this page, we have a meta redirect, redirecting the visitor to the specific image in the gallery. It seems that now Facebook may have changed, and is actually following the meta redirect to get the information ..

Why are we doing it like this? Because Imagevue is basically a single html page, unless we use a "landing page", it will always go to the start page and pickup the title/picture of the main gallery. Using a landing page served as a tool so that facebook would extract the specific shared image information before sending actual visitors forward to the specific url with SWFAddress (ex. #/content/path/image.jpg) which facebook would not be able to read of course (since it simply reads whats in the html source code) ...

We will look for optional methods for this in next release (like redirecting with javascript instead of meta redirect), but until then please have patience as there is not really that much we can do to solve this issue which is something that changed from facebook ...

Sorry for any inconvenience!