Less that and more just corporate priorities.

So a little inside baseball:

• FT does not generate more revenue than all the rest of travel combined, so it makes more sense long-term to have a single Likes product that is shared by all sites and no tech worker needs specific, separate knowledge on
• No one that worked on the FT Likes is with the company or in our department anymore.
• While the new team can devote a lot of time to trying to figure out any current bugs, the next time we have a site update or even a change in a minor code, there could be a new bug, which would then require more dev hours, who may be new and need to re-familiarize themselves with the product, taking time away from other tech projects
• Since we have a different, standardized, completely working product to replace it, it makes way more sense to just switch over to that
• Now I know you guys hate the design of the new product, so I've been holding it off. But if the Auto Communities tech team doesn't fix the design by the time FT Likes becomes completely broken, then we'll be stuck with that
• As you may realize, fixing a relatively minor design issue for a single site that isn't even in their portfolio is not a high priority for them

Thanks, IBJoel . I obviously don't really like your answer, but I appreciate it. ;)

“understand” =\= “like”

(maybe need a new button to capture the difference) :rolleyes: ;)

Yep, we've been ARGuing the merit of fixing it, but ARG, it's such a pain to fix it apparently...

This is an interesting observation! How can one recreate what you are seeing?

Thank you so much for the insight. Tell everyone there at IB that Samir says hello (met everyone at ForumCon when it was still around, if anyone that remembers that is still around, lol).

IBJoel , any updates?

"Liking" Posts
 

Currently when I "like" posts, two things happen

1. It appears as 'You like this'
2. It appears as [ARG:6 UNDEFINED] likes this - but then later the like has disappeared.

Is there a reason for this?

there’s a lot of the history — with a lot of associated cussing and discussing — in the 277 posts upthread of your question

as a related data point, the first post is from Oct 2021

This sometimes happens to me, as well as seeing ARG4 and ARG6. I find that sometimes if I refresh the page, the like function then seems to work.

I think if the page has been open for a long time, you must refresh first not only before making a post but also before liking a post.

I hope this helps.

Hmmm...could you describe this in more details? The more details on how it doesn't work will help them nail down where to look to fix it. :)

If a page has been open for a while (I think it's around 30min) a bunch of stuff breaks. I've replied to p:(sts and taken a while to complete my thoughts and press submit and had to go back to the "are you a human" prompts from Cloudflare. In so doing, whatever I put into my reply gets lost. I wouldn't doubt if something similar was happening with the "like" functionality.

I've never understood why autosave doesn't work when this happens.

Ah, this is just a 'cookie timeout' that occurs on some forums at various intervals. My solution to this has to get in the habit of copying my post to the clipboard (ctrl-c) so that in the even the post doesn't post, I can paste it into notepad and then try again without losing anything. Nothing, and I mean nearly nothing is as frustrating as a nicely worded post for it to just be lost along with the energy that went into writing that post. :(

Also cookie timeout, so won't save since login cookie isn't valid anymore.

I've also taken to doing this :(f late.