Disable "Like"?

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

So I've been told

[Shambles]

CSS is easier than Finnish.

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Nah, he is probably right.

[Arantor]

So if you put the like button itself into the quick buttons, what are you doing with the '1 person likes this' which is returned via AJAX and includes a link to a popup to see all the likers?

[Sir Osis of Liver]

keep the same position, but style it like the quickbuttons.

^ Good idea.

So if you put the like button itself into the quick buttons, what are you doing with the '1 person likes this' which is returned via AJAX and includes a link to a popup to see all the likers?

Place it below the button, as it appears in your post.

I'm just a little sad that this is another thing I didn't get right

Not a question of getting it right or wrong, it's an aesthetic thing, everybody doesn't like something.

Oh well, can't win 'em all.

Nobody does, and in the end everyone loses it all.

[Arantor]

Place it below the button, as it appears in your post.

Underneath all of the quote/more buttons? Because that's what 'under the quick buttons' would mean.

Not a question of getting it right or wrong

Not being funny but I don't think you understand. There has been a fair amount of feedback since 2.1 went live here. Virtually *everything* that everyone has complained about was down to me. Not just this one thing but _all_ of the things people actually complained about.

That's a lot to have gotten wrong.

[Antechinus]

So if you put the like button itself into the quick buttons, what are you doing with the '1 person likes this' which is returned via AJAX and includes a link to a popup to see all the likers?

First up, I really do have to wonder if that is useful functionality anyway.

However, it could be kept as an unstyled li > a that holds said text, and placed next to the Likes button. So Likes button over at the left, styled to match other quickbuttons. Blurb/link just after it, with plain background, etc. This is not difficult to do with CSS.

Or you could keep two separate ul's for added flexibility if you really wanted to, and just use the quickbuttons class to pick up styling for the Likes button. TBH I haven't given it a lot of thought yet, since at the moment I'm running with the LIkes stuff hidden. Could play around with it a bit in Stylus.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

This?

[Antechinus]

Needs a bit more tweaking, but basically that, yes.

[Arantor]

That's not what I was asking about, no, which is why I asked for clarification. Putting it "into the quick buttons" means on the right hand side not the left, hence my 'what are you doing with the other part' confusion.

But that does at least make it look like a clickable thing, though it doesn't follow all of the UI paradigms of SMF (which has too many inconsistent visual cues and calls to action anyway)

[Antechinus]

That's not what I was asking about, no, which is why I asked for clarification. Putting it "into the quick buttons" means on the right hand side not the left...

Not necessarily.

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.quickbuttons {
    float: none;
    clear: right;
    display: flex;
    margin: 0 0 5px;
    text-align: start;
}
.quickbuttons > .likes_button {
    order: 1;
}
.quickbuttons > .likes_blurb {
    order: 2;
    margin-right: auto;
}
.quickbuttons > .quote_button {
    order: 3;
    margin-left: auto;
}
Or whatever. In principle it is easy to do.

[Douglas]

Arantor, I actually LOVE the like feature. I'm glad it made it into SMF as part of the CORE features and that frickin' karma went away. Karma was always a popularity contest on literally every site I've ever managed or help manage.

The like feature actually makes sense. Still kind of a popularity contest, but the focus is more on the post, itself.

As far as visual aesthetics... someone else said it best: You're not going to please everyone.

That's why SMF is powerful and who it is: If there's something you like/dislike/want to change, it's generally pretty easy to make that change.

Don't take anything we're saying as criticism for your work.

As for the location: The like button should be on the right (either to the left or right of "Quote").

The like text needs to stay right where it's at, currently.

[Antechinus]

If you want it on the right, it has to go after "Quote", or after "More...". Having it before "Quote" would be a PITA.

[zappaDPJ]

So if you put the like button itself into the quick buttons, what are you doing with the '1 person likes this' which is returned via AJAX and includes a link to a popup to see all the likers?

I would leave that where it is.

Although it might seem logical to place the button and the text together it's actually a little confusing. Where there's text (i.e. a post has been liked) the button takes on the appearance of a heading rather than a call to action so to speak.

By placing the button next to the other action buttons (e.g. 'QUOTE) it's purpose becomes more obvious. It's also more in keeping with other platforms.

To be honest, as things stands now I initially thought the 'Like' button was a notification of a single like. It could be that I'm as thick as a brick but it's been nagging at me every time I see it and that's usually a sign in my mind at least that something is not quite right.

Not being funny but I don't think you understand. There has been a fair amount of feedback since 2.1 went live here. Virtually *everything* that everyone has complained about was down to me. Not just this one thing but _all_ of the things people actually complained about.

That's a lot to have gotten wrong.

Have you considered you were right at the time and that what you contributed at the very least planted the seeds of some very necessary changes?

This upgrade has been a very long time coming so it's inevitable what was done way back when may have moved on a little.

In terms of the 'Like' function the important thing is we now have it, placement is just semantics.


[EDIT]

This?

This which I didn't see at the time of posting is in my view is far more intuitive.

[Antechinus]

Actually, if you want a really neat implementation take a look at the way Elkarte did it.
Example: https://www.elkarte.net/community/index.php?topic=5993.msg42695#msg42695
Hover over the "Likes" button to get the pop-up of all the members who liked the post.

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(And before someone says "We can't copy Elkarte!!!!" - you copied the idea of Likes anyway. )

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

That is pretty neat, could work just fine.

[Antechinus]

It does work just fine. I know because I've used it live. Simple code too. You can evil steal Elk's code, coz we have this thing called "open source". You know you want it.