i hated that ******** notification but i would like to share my photos directly from my Photos App...
I run 3 OS X versions concurrently, two of them being Mavericks and HighSierra. In
High Sierra I was able (as of now, Jan 4, 2019) to share:
- A tweet from Share menu in Notification Center. Facebook Status update failed with the message "Connection failure".
- Pictures to both Twitter and Facebook via Share option in Photos. Flickr failed to authorize my credentials again and again even with the newer OAuth 2 protocol.
- Sharing to YouTube works as expected.
As to #1 a little warning: when I clicked on "Send" in Twitter message sheet an alert popped up telling me to re-enter my password for my Twitter account in Internet Accounts prefpane. After I did that I was able to send the status update. Likewise, Facebook alert appeared however that didn't restore sharing but instead gave me ability to share from Photos.
In
Mavericks:
- I installed it on a separate partition in the end of December. I was able to send tweets and get Facebook notifications. However after some time Facebook notifications stopped working just like in every other OS X version and any attempts to update my status from Notification Center repeatedly resulted in "Connection failure" error message.
- Today I got the same "Connection failure" message when trying to send a tweet. I switched to High Sierra and trying to do the same there got an alert that I need to re-enter my password (see above). Switching back to Mavericks I found that I now could send tweets from Notification Center.
- Sharing to Facebook, Flickr and YouTube is broken completely across all apps, including Safari.
- The only good integration that works flawlessly in every OS X version is Vimeo. It's unbelievable and amazing that such greedy behemoths as Google, Facebook and Apple would twist users' hands, capriciously changing and modifying features so as to cause numerous obstacles on behalf of "security" when smaller platforms like Vimeo support uploading from OS's as old as Lion: I actually can share to Vimeo from iMovie 9 and QuickTime in Lion.
I hate to be gloating, however I can't but note with content that in fact so much talked-about social integration of OS X was NOT worth upgrading from Lion, thus, effectively making the circle complete and being in ruins. We got back to 2012, pre-Mountain Lion: no Facebook, no Twitter, no LinkedIn, no GameCenter, just CalDAV, cardDAV, WebDAV, Server and Google - the same set we had back then. Haha, that's marvelous.
To support here's the screencapture of sharing in HighSierra.
Update. Apparently integration with Twitter is dead in Mavericks too - the error returned. Be damned, corporations!
Update 5/15/2019 Considering Twitter, it was a false alarm on my part: I still can send a tweet from Mavericks.