The “likes received” feature on user profiles, which was previously public, appears to have been hidden. Drew_Warwick expressed concerns about this change, explaining how it helped them improve their posting ratio. However, sam revealed that the feature is still available, but it has been moved to the Summary tab on the user page.
The issue for Drew_Warwick is that their Discourse forum doesn’t have this feature enabled. sam clarified that the feature is available in the latest update, and no specific settings need to be toggled.
Drew_Warwick pointed out that the Summary tab is not visible on their site, likely due to an outdated version. sam acknowledged this and plans to deploy the necessary updates soon. Additionally, sam is working on adding a link to view more than the top six liked posts on a user’s profile.
On the meta and the Discourse forum I’m part of, “likes received” no longer show up on other peoples’ profiles. On the old forum software we used and on with the Discourse software after we switched, I would frequently look at which users were getting the most likes and what they were doing good that I could improve on (my likes-received/post ratio used to be around 50% before I started doing that, but now it’s close to 1 like for every post). Ever since it was hidden from other peoples’ profiles, I haven’t really been able to do that easily – I’ve had to start jotting down posts I saw with a lot of likes manually and taking note of them.
We can already see the likes someone gets on their post, so I don’t understand why it’d need to be private on their profile. Was hiding it an intentional design choice or just the result of hiding the notifications tab on profiles?
Ah, I see – thanks. The Discourse forum I’m using doesn’t have that enabled (staff probably didn’t notice it was updated), so I’ll ask them to switch it on. What’s the name of the setting that toggles the summary?
Edit: Oh, there’s no way to view more than the top six popular posts. Any way for me to see more than that on other peoples’ profiles?
