Only Some Posts Allowed to be "Liked" on Archived Thread

[mblatz]

It seems that on a Discourse forum I frequent, some archived threads allow some posts to still be “liked”, aka “hearted”, and some not. If there is a method to the madness I am not able to suss it out. Is this normal/usual, or something more interesting or buggy happening here?

No real issue involved, I just got curious about it.

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

Archived topics shouldn’t allow likes, we have some details about how closed and archived posts work here:

The difference between Closed, Unlisted and Archived topics

How do “Archiving” vs. “Closing” a topic compare? Common to both Displays a “lock” icon next to topic in lists Disables replying to topic Disables “Invite” button at bottom of topic. Closing or archiving a topic does not bump its last activity date. Continues to allow flagging of topic or posts. Continues to allow bookmarking. Specific to Archived topics Disables users ability to delete a post. Disables likes. Disabled poll based voting (effectively closing polls). Disables display of top…

Is this a public forum that you can share a link to? It will be difficult to troubleshoot without some additional information.

[mblatz]

Yep…here is one that caught my attention, but mods say they see this behavior in general:

DMS Discord and Current Events

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

That’s Discourse 2.8.1, so it’s a bit out of date (not quite a year old).

If they want correct behavior and don’t want a bunch of security issues that have been fixed since then, then they should upgrade.