New URLs in Chrome Web Store break the +1 button count

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Zachary Allia

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Aug 14, 2012, 10:37:16 AM8/14/12
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Recently the chrome web store changed the URLs, this breaks all the +1 button counts. Now the count is fragmented across two URLs, please fix this. 

URLs used to be like:


Now they are like:

Michael Hart / Awesome New Tab Page

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Aug 14, 2012, 12:35:53 PM8/14/12
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This is a huge PITA, as one of my extensions had over 9.1k +1's.

I guess in the future I'll use my domain for the +1 button, not the Chrome Web Store.

Mihai Parparita

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Aug 14, 2012, 1:34:35 PM8/14/12
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I've reported this to the Web Store team.

Mihai

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Joe Marini

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Aug 14, 2012, 1:41:00 PM8/14/12
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We're looking at this.

Joe


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Zach Allia

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Aug 14, 2012, 1:45:13 PM8/14/12
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Would be awesome to combine the +1s somehow. I know I have at least one ext that has over 5k on each URL.

z

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Michael Hart

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Aug 14, 2012, 1:58:43 PM8/14/12
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Zach, I agree. However, to the best of my knowledge, Google+ doesn't provide a way to move +1s from one URL to another. +1's don't even follow 301 redirects, which would probably be the easiest way to handle URL changes.

While it'd definitely be nice if Google moved them in this scenario, it's not really fair to the developers who'd like to do this on their own website but can't. Such folks typically setup permanent redirects (which is already done here) and use the old URL in the buttons.

Zachary Allia

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Oct 1, 2012, 6:56:31 PM10/1/12
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This was fixed, but is now broken again. What's the deal?

Michael Hart / Awesome New Tab Page

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Oct 1, 2012, 7:04:51 PM10/1/12
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Zachary, it looks like URLs are being grouped and the +1's are "available" to both URLs. I assume with that being the case, they went ahead with the change.

Zachary Allia

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Oct 2, 2012, 3:51:25 PM10/2/12
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it's now back to the original ones... gah! stop changing them please.
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