Hello. I’d like to have like counts of original posts on the main page. I followed instuctions from this post: Display Like Counts on Home Page Topic List - #6 by vinothkannans I added the following code with showOpLikes, but I have issues with it. Somehow it doesn’t show original post like counts …

I believe that you need to add some javascript to add OP likes to the serializer. If you search “add to serializer” (perhaps without spaces) you should find some examples.

I believe showOpLikes should only work when sorting by OP likes by visiting a URL like https://meta.discourse.org/latest?order=op_likes, otherwise the op_like_count isn’t included (showLikes, should work… but that’s the total for the entire topic). You can see this in action by viewing https://meta…

Yeah, but is there any logic behind this, or is it a bug?

It’s intentionally built that way, but I’m not sure the exact reason. I suspect it’s data we don’t want to carry around on every page load. We’ve also generally considered the total likes within a topic to be a better measurement of discussion quality than OP alone.

Well, it depends on the goals of the community I guess. Our posts represent math questions and problems, so we’d like to see the most liked ones, and I’m not sure including likes given to answers should be considered. Hm. I don’t know.

`showOpLikes` doesn't work right away, but after clicking back and forth

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negaduck (Alejandro) March 7, 2020, 2:15pm 7

Well, I’ve changed it back to just showLikes, but thanks for the suggestion, I’ll maybe try this later.

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`showOpLikes` doesn't work right away, but after clicking back and forth

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