It seems Likes disappear, sometimes not added to the total, and just who do the Likes belong to?
Details:
I click on my icon (top right) and I see:
The “like” icon showed 99 yesterday. And today it is 101.
About 2 hours later, 5 posts were Liked
The total hiding the still says 101.
If a User creates a Topic, then someone comments, and later another person Liked the Comment, is the Like for the person that made a comment to the OPs post?
I’m not after Likes (that must be obvious by now ) but I’ve been asked by a past client what I think about Discourse for their site. And, I would like to understand it myself too.
I have read the docs at Discourse.org for “Likes” and it’s pros and cons.
More confused why the numbers go up and then down.
If you float your cursor over the heart with the number in it, it will show “unread likes” as a description. So that number decreases as you read, or at least scroll past, a post (of yours) that was liked.
If a post were deleted then I guess any accounting of likes would go down.
As a theoretical question, I would wonder whether some of the accounting is only updated in a batch process i.e. not real-time.
I would think that the general answer to that is that the like is for the person who made the reply, not for the OP.
However you can see all of
likes for the original post
likes for each individual reply
likes for the topic as a whole (sum over the previous two bullet points)
and you can also see how many posts by specific highly-participative users in a topic have received one or more likes. (NB: Not the same as the total number of likes for that user in that topic.)
still says 101.
) but I’ve been asked by a past client what I think about Discourse for their site. And, I would like to understand it myself too.