I can’t like anything anymore.....

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Cerrertonia May 2019 3:01pm, 5 May 2019 10,373 posts	0 Cerrertonia If only there was some kind of button I could press to show my amusement at McG's post above.
D2 May 2019 3:09pm, 5 May 2019 11,224 posts	0 D2 lol
Surrey Phil May 2019 4:02pm, 5 May 2019 2,996 posts	0 Surrey Phil I must confess to being a 'like button user.' I think the like buttons were there to stop repetitive subsequent posts or posts which just had +1.
jennywren May 2019 4:25pm, 5 May 2019 15,153 posts	0 jennywren Too much like Facebook for my ... er... liking
Derby Tup May 2019 4:29pm, 5 May 2019 31,004 posts	0 Derby Tup I liked liking. I’m not on FB; I don’t like it
Bazoaxe May 2019 4:29pm, 5 May 2019 14,520 posts	0 Bazoaxe The next thing you know we wont be able to give kudos on training
fetcheveryone May 2019 5:16pm, 5 May 2019 21,797 posts	0 fetcheveryone I like what you just said.
Homer May 2019 5:17pm, 5 May 2019 12,604 posts	0 Homer +1
Eynsham Red May 2019 5:34pm, 5 May 2019 4,187 posts	0 Eynsham Red Not understanding these things too well, does removing the “like” function ease things more than the increased number of posts which “verbalise” a like of earlier posts?
fetcheveryone May 2019 5:52pm, 5 May 2019 21,798 posts	0 fetcheveryone The way things are set up, when you view any forum page, it would send a follow-up request to the server that said "tell me about the likes on this page". So purely in terms of the number of server requests, it was doubling the traffic. It's not as 'heavy' a request as viewing a page, but when coupled with the low usage, it felt like a good win to remove it. To give you an idea of usage, our forum has accumulated 4.2 million posts (admittedly over a longer time than we've had 'likes' in place), but those posts have only accumulated 89,000 likes. Perhaps a better thing would be to look at the 1000 most recent threads. They've seen 123k posts, and less than 10k likes - the figure is approx 7.8% of posts have attracted a like. Therefore, I decided it wasn't widely used.