A discussion about notifications for post likes in Discourse has been initiated by Kasper, who pointed out that users only receive a notification for the first like on their post. Kasper and others, including probus and winterbox, believe that users should receive notifications for subsequent likes, possibly with a condensed notification format.
Some users, such as codinghorror and riking, suggest that the badge system could be used to address this issue, as users can earn badges for reaching certain like thresholds. However, winterbox notes that this may not be suitable for small communities where reaching these thresholds can be challenging.
Ultimately, a solution has been implemented, as announced by sam, allowing users to customize their notification preferences for post likes. Users can choose to be notified always, only the first time, or the first time and daily.
If I write a post, I get a notification when somebody likes it.
This is something I like, you know, I like to be liked !
But.. for the second, third, fourth like, I don’t get a notification anymore.
I may sound a little childish, but I would like to get a notification for that as well.
I’m not sure if this is on purpose or if this is an bug. But I would tell you my observation.
I start a topic, and I get a like, and I see a notification
some more posts happen in that forum
couple of minutes later, I see that my topic got 4 likes, but I never got a notification for that
Right or wrong, I think without notifications for each like, discourse will be battling against some expectations set by many other apps that have an analogous feature.
I have been wondering about this as well. Why do you only get notification from the first like? If you are worried that likes would fill the notifications list, they could be condense into one line like this: “heart_symbol user1, user2 and 4 others topic title” or even “heart_symbol 5 people topic title”
