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This has come to be a real surprise to me. But why does it have to be a heart shape exactly?

I want to know how I can hide the hearts from my posts.Please, my posts looks terrible with them.

Edit: Now I have found it in Edit Profile. (but still shows to other people) But the letter x still shows up!

JP21 wrote: May 4th, 2021, 12:21 amBut the letter x still shows up!

Can confirm the existence of this.

As for the concept of likes themselves, I personally support Brian Prentice's viewpoint. The current implementation at least seems mildly unprofessional although that's probably a personal thing that may be discounted.

Nathaniel wrote: May 3rd, 2021, 7:04 pm

hotdogPi wrote: May 3rd, 2021, 6:58 pm I see that your post has 5 likes, but I can't see who they are by hovering.

It's a little fiddly -- you have to hover right over the number (not the x or the heart itself). Does that tidbit fix the issue, or is it still broken?

How to do that on phone?
Have a good day!

BokaBB

dvgrn wrote: May 3rd, 2021, 8:29 pm I'll remain infinitesimally resentful because of the vertical screen space that they waste... but I'm sure I could get used to ignoring them if necessary.

I've moved the hearts up to the top row, alongside the quote button, so that no extra vertical space is wasted. Thoughts? I also made it blue instead of red (you may have to hard-refresh your browser to see the change) so that it doesn't stand out quite so much.

yujh wrote: May 3rd, 2021, 9:05 pm Fine, I mean, it there’s no likes just don’t show it there?(it’s a bit confusing)

Done -- if a post has 0 likes, it now just shows the heart with no number.

GUYTU6J wrote: May 3rd, 2021, 10:37 pm 1) Similar to the problem stated here, the conwaylife.com logo fails to be displayed.
2) A redundant "/app.php" in the links to posts and topics makes them inaccesible.

I've fixed the logo issue. The other issue has been noted for now.

JP21 wrote: May 4th, 2021, 12:21 am Edit: Now I have found it in Edit Profile. (but still shows to other people) But the letter x still shows up!

Fixed -- the x is now gone if you hide "likes".

BokaBB wrote: May 4th, 2021, 2:33 am How to do that on phone?

I imagine you can't.

Could there be a button to the left of the like button which, if you click on it, displays the amount of people who liked the post?

cgoler2 wrote: May 4th, 2021, 8:35 am Could there be a button to the left of the like button which, if you click on it, displays the amount of people who liked the post?

It will show you if anyone liked your post I think (at least there's a notifiaction afaik since I've got one??), so I will do you a test

I now like/appreciate the way the button is shown/represented, but it isn't exactly a "like" button.
The blue color is nice, but other buttons are not colored. (I have no problems with that)
All the other buttons' first word (when you hover your mouse on the button) is capitalized except for the heart button.
Oh and after you like a post, the text still says "click to like this post".
Can't it be shorter with "Like this post" instead? Don't forget the "sorry, you cannot like your own post" to maybe even just "You can't like your own post".
There is one more thing. I kinda want the option to hide the hearts from a specific post (not others posts). (It's not really needed though)
All of this are just minor opinions of mine.

A notification showing yujh's like came up, and also dvgrn's like.

Nathaniel,

Please state clearly why you have added a "Like Button" to all the forum posts.

Brian Prentice

JP21 wrote: May 4th, 2021, 10:42 am All the other buttons' first word (when you hover your mouse on the button) is capitalized except for the heart button.
Oh and after you like a post, the text still says "click to like this post".
Can't it be shorter with "Like this post" instead? Don't forget the "sorry, you cannot like your own post" to maybe even just "You can't like your own post".
There is one more thing. I kinda want the option to hide the hearts from a specific post (not others posts). (It's not really needed though)
All of this are just minor opinions of mine.

I've shortened and capitalized the mouseover text. Unfortunately, I doubt the other changes will happen -- they would require more mucking around in the guts of this extension than I think I have in me right now.

bprentice wrote: May 5th, 2021, 8:28 am Nathaniel,

Please state clearly why you have added a "Like Button" to all the forum posts.

Brian Prentice

To provide an alternative to "wow, congrats!"-type posts. It's reasonably natural to want to provide positive feedback for good work, but a forum post doing so is just clutter.

Nathaniel wrote: May 3rd, 2021, 7:16 pm Fortunately, this can be turned off in your user settings: https://www.conwaylife.com/forums/ucp.p ... on_options

I'll update my earlier post with this info, and I'll look into making "off" the default.

Please make "off" the default.

Brian Prentice

Nathaniel,

I've completely changed my opinion on the like buttons. Today I read a post and all I wanted to say was "Thanks, you have clarified everything" so I simply clicked the heart.

Brian Prentice

I have likes off, however I am still getting notifications when people like my posts. (Also, can the like-related bit on user profiles be hidden as well?)

bubblegum wrote: May 9th, 2021, 7:10 pm I have likes off, however I am still getting notifications when people like my posts.

There are two separate options: the option here turns off the like icon on forum posts, and the option here turns notifications off.

bubblegum wrote: May 9th, 2021, 7:10 pm (Also, can the like-related bit on user profiles be hidden as well?)

There's no super quick/easy way for me to make this happen, but I'll look into it.

Related questions for anyone and everyone: does anyone actually like receiving notifications when your posts are liked? I'm thinking about disabling like notifications entirely.

Nathaniel wrote: May 10th, 2021, 7:11 am Related questions for anyone and everyone: does anyone actually like receiving notifications when your posts are liked? I'm thinking about disabling like notifications entirely.

I think it makes sense to disable it, but maybe leave an option to turn on the notifications.

I also think that the sprites for the like button should be switched, where it would be hollow by default and filled in when you like a post. This would give liked posts a higher contrast with the rest of the page, and stand out relative to other posts.

silversmith wrote: May 10th, 2021, 8:04 amI also think that the sprites for the like button should be switched, where it would be hollow by default and filled in when you like a post. This would give liked posts a higher contrast with the rest of the page, and stand out relative to other posts.

If this is something we can pick I'd make it grey like its neighbours until it's clicked.

Nathaniel wrote: May 10th, 2021, 7:11 am Related questions for anyone and everyone: does anyone actually like receiving notifications when your posts are liked? I'm thinking about disabling like notifications entirely.

Do not disable the notifications entirely. Just keep the option so that I can track down every usage of the like/heart button in my posts.
I'm currently waiting for an option to remove the like/heart feature in specific posts. Something that might be like this:

Please add that.
Have a good day!

BokaBB

BokaBB wrote: May 20th, 2021, 11:01 am Please add that.
Have a good day!

BokaBB

Pretty sure that was intentionally not included. https://www.conwaylife.com/forums/viewt ... al#p129507
Someone please merge this thread with the normal one.

Schiaparelliorbust wrote: May 20th, 2021, 11:11 am

BokaBB wrote: May 20th, 2021, 11:01 am Please add that.
Have a good day!

BokaBB

Pretty sure that was intentionally not included. https://www.conwaylife.com/forums/viewt ... al#p129507
Someone please merge this thread with the normal one.

Nathaniel never said that that was intentional by the way.
Have a good day!

BokaBB

BokaBB wrote: May 20th, 2021, 11:25 am Nathaniel never said that that was intentional by the way.

I'll say it now: it was intentional. I don't want the like system to be a way for people to accumulate points, or try to get a high score, or anything like that.

Nathaniel wrote: May 20th, 2021, 1:12 pm

BokaBB wrote: May 20th, 2021, 11:25 am Nathaniel never said that that was intentional by the way.

I'll say it now: it was intentional. I don't want the like system to be a way for people to accumulate points, or try to get a high score, or anything like that.

Okay.
Have a good day!

BokaBB

Nathaniel wrote: May 4th, 2021, 8:13 am

GUYTU6J wrote: May 3rd, 2021, 10:37 pm 1) Similar to the problem stated here, the conwaylife.com logo fails to be displayed.
2) A redundant "/app.php" in the links to posts and topics makes them inaccesible.

I've fixed the logo issue. The other issue has been noted for now.

Now the second issue seems fixed for the posts and topics part, but the links to users remain broken due to a missing segment of "/forums" before "/memberlist.php". Meanwhile, thanks for fixing the first one!

May I request a feature:

Swap colors of the default heart(currently blue) and the liked heart(currently empty),
so that the liked heart(blue) stands out from the default heart(empty)

I don't know if this has been pointed out — and it's pretty minor anyways, but trying to get a user's profile from the list of Like actions doesn't work.

The like list has links such as:
https://conwaylife.com/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2

, which doesn't exist, as it should be
https://conwaylife.com/forums/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2