# Topic cards likes are broken

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-cards-likes-are-broken/404198
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** topic-cards
**Created:** [June 1, 2026, 9:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-cards-likes-are-broken/404198 "2026-06-01T09:42:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2026, 9:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-cards-likes-are-broken/404198/1 "2026-06-01T09:42:30Z")

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A seemingly harmless “[update linting](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-topic-cards/commit/ad60c74adbf701ad57d8acea4b6554f505c3efa9)” broke the ability to like the topic in the topic card.

The `canLike()` getter was removed but it was still being called  
The `firstPostId()` getter was turned into a boolean

PR [here](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-topic-cards/pull/81)

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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2026, 9:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-cards-likes-are-broken/404198/2 "2026-06-01T09:51:22Z")

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Merged the PR - thanks!

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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2026, 7:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-cards-likes-are-broken/404198/3 "2026-06-06T07:00:12Z")

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