Some Future Changes

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Two things:

hiding likes

this was recently requested. i’ve done some digging. so first, it doesn’t seem possible to make it so that you can only see the like you gave to someone, tho if someone finds out otherwise in discourse’s CSS, let me know.

that said, i personally don’t want to turn it off for everyone either - i like likes since it means i can react to something without replying. so:

the solution

I’ll be using the plugin CSS Classes for Current User's Groups - theme-component - Discourse Meta to create a “Likes On” and “Likes Off” group. Those that join “Likes Off” will have this CSS applied to them:

body.category-your-category-slug(.group-group_name) {
    button.like {
        display: none;
    }
}

This will remove the like button for the “Likes Off” group. Hopefully this is a good workaround, but I’m open to feedback.

hiding site clickthroughs

I hate this. It fucking sucks. I don’t like it. That’s my justification, I don’t feel like I need to add more but yeah. I hate that it shows you how many times a link has been clicked. who fucking cares.

the solution

.badge.badge-notification.clicks {
    display: none;
}

unless someone has a REALLY good justification for wanting to keep seeing this, it’ll be site-wide. the only thing i’ve seen is that it can leave a strange-ish gap in the CSS. I personally don’t care but if y’all can convince me I won’t do it. good luck tho LOL.

expect these changes within the next two-ish weeks? I want to say sooner but i’ve learned it’s better to give headway for my own timeline when it comes to these sorts of things.

thanks for using auldnoir![1]

  1. i know it’s too soon but i couldn’t resist ↩︎

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i’ve seen it be useful in some contexts, but in this one i well and truly have no idea what it’s doing other than taking up space and being a +1 metric that rewires your brain in a bad way. yeet with prejudice imo

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oh god ok I understand the hiding likes thing now. I was confused. like I thought we were talking about hiding when someone had liked a post and I thought that was a bit strange, since even cohost told you when someone liked your post. got it now. lord

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weirdly, for me having something after the link reminds me to actually click it. idk why, I do know it has nothing to do with the “number” part of it though. like, it could be an emoji and do the same thing :joy: brains are weird. anyway I think it has something to do with the extra space, so the gap might be even less of an issue than you think!

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this is still in the cards, i shouldn’t have announced it because the minute i did my life imploded LOL

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