# filamentgroup/SocialCount

Unmaintained (see the README): Simple barebones project to show share counts from various social networks.

Repository: https://github.com/filamentgroup/SocialCount
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/socialcount
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: third-party-javascript, widget, twitter, facebook
Archived: true
Last push: 2018-11-30T18:24:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5165, "days_push": 2833, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1348, forks 104 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:27.744299+00:00)

## What it is
SocialCount is a small jQuery plugin providing progressively enhanced, lazy-loaded social sharing widgets for Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus. It is a lightweight alternative to heavy official social network widgets, optimized for mobile performance.

## Use cases
- add lightweight social share buttons to a website
- replace slow Facebook and Twitter official widgets with a fast alternative
- show share counts from social networks on pages
- make social sharing work on touch and keyboard devices
- reduce HTTP requests from third-party social widgets
- lazy load social widgets only on hover

## When to choose
- you need a tiny, fast social sharing widget on a jQuery-based site
- you want progressive enhancement so sharing works without JavaScript
- you need mobile-friendly share buttons with minimal requests

## When to avoid
- you need current share counts, since the count-fetching server code was removed and the APIs are gone
- you need Google Plus support, which no longer exists
- you want an actively maintained project, as this repo is unmaintained
- your stack does not use jQuery 1.6+

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, web-scraping
- domain: web-development, frontend, social-media
- platform: browser
- tags: jquery-plugin, social-sharing, progressive-enhancement, lazy-loading, mobile-friendly, unmaintained, javascript, jquery

## Member repositories
- filamentgroup/SocialCount (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:27.744299+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:42:25.415568+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/filamentgroup/SocialCount (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:27.744299+00:00, sha de62649a4d70)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.