Like button is gone

bokehlover71bokehlover71 Registered Users Posts: 156 Major grins
edited October 5, 2016 in Bug Reporting
I haven't got any likes on my pictures for a long time. Today I discovered that when I am logged out there is no thumb sign below the images, so it is impossible to "like" my images. All my galleries allow likes, and I haven't added any CSS that removes it as I know. Does anyone know what could be wrong?
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  • denisegoldbergdenisegoldberg Administrators Posts: 14,352 moderator
    edited August 22, 2015
    Interesting. The like button is gone from my site too.

    --- Denise
    https://www.denisegoldberg.com ... https://denise.smugmug.com

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  • bokehlover71bokehlover71 Registered Users Posts: 156 Major grins
    edited August 23, 2015
    Like button is gone
    It appears that the like button is gone from all members, even on galleries that allow likes. It looks like an error on the server side.
  • leftquarkleftquark Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,784 Many Grins
    edited August 24, 2015
    You beat me to it ... The "Show Off" and Like buttons have been removed to avoid some confusion around the button and to simplify the user interface. There was no way to see who liked your photos or even how many people had liked a particular photo. Page rankings remain unchanged.
    dGrin Afficionado
    Former SmugMug Product Team
    aaron AT aaronmphotography DOT com
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  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,242 moderator
    edited August 24, 2015
    Does this like button deletion ruin the Smugmug Popular Today page?
    My Smugmug
    "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky
  • leftquarkleftquark Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,784 Many Grins
    edited August 24, 2015
    David_S85 wrote: »
    Does this like button deletion ruin the Smugmug Popular Today page?

    Photo views, comments, comment score, and other factors continue to attribute to a photos' rank; the Popular Today page should still function as it has in the past.
    dGrin Afficionado
    Former SmugMug Product Team
    aaron AT aaronmphotography DOT com
    Website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com
    My SmugMug CSS Customizations website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com/Customizations
  • bokehlover71bokehlover71 Registered Users Posts: 156 Major grins
    edited August 24, 2015
    Think I have to leave SmugMug if the like button doesn't come back. There is no way left for visitors to interact, except sending me an email to say they like my pictures. I never get any feedback anymore. I feel my site lives on a desert island in the Internet ocean.
  • leftquarkleftquark Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,784 Many Grins
    edited August 24, 2015
    bokehlover71 wrote: »
    Think I have to leave SmugMug if the like button doesn't come back. There is no way left for visitors to interact, except sending me an email to say they like my pictures. I never get any feedback anymore. I feel my site lives on a desert island in the Internet ocean.

    We have every intention of bringing it back, and more. As it existed, people could like your photos but there was no way to do anything with that: you couldn't see who liked it, you couldn't see how many people liked it, etc. We'd like to solve that and make interacting with your photos a whole lot better. Stay tuned!
    dGrin Afficionado
    Former SmugMug Product Team
    aaron AT aaronmphotography DOT com
    Website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com
    My SmugMug CSS Customizations website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com/Customizations
  • HelmutHelmut Registered Users Posts: 1 Beginner grinner
    edited August 24, 2015
    leftquark wrote: »
    We have every intention of bringing it back, and more. ...

    I also miss it but this sounds interesting. I am curious.

    Helmut
  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,242 moderator
    edited August 25, 2015
    leftquark wrote:
    Photo views, comments, comment score, and other factors continue to attribute to a photos' rank; the Popular Today page should still function as it has in the past.

    Aaron, the Smugmug > Popular > Today page seems to no longer be populated with photos. It has been that way for at least two days now.

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    Also, and related, why is Smugmug > Browse still using old Smugmug?

    http://www.smugmug.com/browse
    My Smugmug
    "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky
  • leftquarkleftquark Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,784 Many Grins
    edited August 25, 2015
    David_S85 wrote: »
    Aaron, the Smugmug > Popular > Today page seems to no longer be populated with photos. It has been that way for at least two days now.

    Also, and related, why is Smugmug > Browse still using old Smugmug?

    Both excellent questions I'll need to get back to you on.
    dGrin Afficionado
    Former SmugMug Product Team
    aaron AT aaronmphotography DOT com
    Website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com
    My SmugMug CSS Customizations website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com/Customizations
  • leftquarkleftquark Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,784 Many Grins
    edited August 25, 2015
    The Popular Today page is related to an issue we had over the weekend. Our current ETA for having it fixed is by tomorrow (Wed, 2015-08-26) evening. I'll try to keep you updated as we work to resolve the issue.
    dGrin Afficionado
    Former SmugMug Product Team
    aaron AT aaronmphotography DOT com
    Website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com
    My SmugMug CSS Customizations website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com/Customizations
  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,242 moderator
    edited August 25, 2015
    Thanks Aaron!
    My Smugmug
    "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky
  • leftquarkleftquark Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,784 Many Grins
    edited August 27, 2015
    We will be using our regularly-scheduled maintenance window to give SmugMug some TLC tonight from 10pm - 10:45pm. It should resolve the Popular Today issue but we'll know more after the updates are pushed today. Thanks for your understanding!
    dGrin Afficionado
    Former SmugMug Product Team
    aaron AT aaronmphotography DOT com
    Website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com
    My SmugMug CSS Customizations website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com/Customizations
  • CoryJenksCoryJenks Registered Users Posts: 41 Big grins
    edited August 28, 2015
    Any update?
    Cory Jenks Photography
  • leftquarkleftquark Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,784 Many Grins
    edited August 28, 2015
    Popular Today photos are beginning to be restored. I'll try to update you when the restoration is complete.
    dGrin Afficionado
    Former SmugMug Product Team
    aaron AT aaronmphotography DOT com
    Website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com
    My SmugMug CSS Customizations website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com/Customizations
  • leftquarkleftquark Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,784 Many Grins
    edited August 29, 2015
    Processing of SmartGalleries and Popular should now be complete.
    dGrin Afficionado
    Former SmugMug Product Team
    aaron AT aaronmphotography DOT com
    Website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com
    My SmugMug CSS Customizations website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com/Customizations
  • ghdunnghdunn Registered Users Posts: 1 Beginner grinner
    edited October 21, 2015
    leftquark wrote: »
    We have every intention of bringing it back, and more. As it existed, people could like your photos but there was no way to do anything with that: you couldn't see who liked it, you couldn't see how many people liked it, etc. We'd like to solve that and make interacting with your photos a whole lot better. Stay tuned!
    Any target as to when the "Like button" will re-appear? (This is a relatively big deal from my perspective.) Thanks!
  • Case1Case1 Registered Users Posts: 18 Big grins
    edited October 21, 2015
    I'd like to know as well. I've finally moved all of my photos and galleries to SmugMug and now I have people asking why they can't "like" specific photos.
  • leftquarkleftquark Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,784 Many Grins
    edited October 21, 2015
    We're hard at work on some things we think you will like, but we aren't quite at the point where we can work on the liking aspects of your photos. I'll be sure to update you all when we do. In the mean time, you can still add the Facebook / Social Media like buttons under your photos
    dGrin Afficionado
    Former SmugMug Product Team
    aaron AT aaronmphotography DOT com
    Website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com
    My SmugMug CSS Customizations website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com/Customizations
  • Case1Case1 Registered Users Posts: 18 Big grins
    edited October 25, 2015
    Thanks for the update, appreciate it.

    BTW, you can add social media buttons to individual photos? I only know how to do that for a gallery as a whole, not for the individual photos. Or is that what you meant?
  • pilotdavepilotdave Registered Users Posts: 785 Major grins
    edited November 7, 2015
    leftquark wrote: »
    We're hard at work on some things we think you will like, but we aren't quite at the point where we can work on the liking aspects of your photos. I'll be sure to update you all when we do. In the mean time, you can still add the Facebook / Social Media like buttons under your photos

    Every year I create a "favorites" smart gallery... combining date and popular to show what images from that year were most popular. Last year's favorites gallery was a bit sparse because the new smug like button was pretty small and it was never clear what it was for (never was a problem in old smug). Now without a like button, this year's favorites gallery has a whopping 2 pictures in it. I thought the idea here was that you'd use other parameters to determine what photos were most popular. Obviously comments/ratings are useless because of the login requirement, so what else is there? This is broken. Why take features away before replacements are ready to go?

    Dave
  • MWWestonMWWeston Registered Users Posts: 45 Big grins
    edited November 24, 2015
    Popular Photos
    The option for viewers to "thumbs up"/like a photograph has been removed.

    http://www.markwweston.com/Popular

    It does not look like any of the photographs on this page have changed since that feature was removed. It does not look like photo view stats have any impact on my Popular Photos.
    Mark
    weston.photos
  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,242 moderator
    edited November 24, 2015
    Likewise, the popular today collection of all Smugmug pics are no longer voted upwards to give the casual viewer an inspiring set. They are now a random pick of shots and collected seemingly without any reason. There probably is some code to select them, but there is no longer purpose behind them. Until they give back the voting feature, there is no reason to go there. Several days back, there were 16 pages from one person's wedding gallery, and they were boring. That's not due to thousands of people all over the world voting shots to the top. But load up SM popular today anyway, to see if I'm wrong.
    My Smugmug
    "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky
  • MWWestonMWWeston Registered Users Posts: 45 Big grins
    edited March 23, 2016
    Is this feature really going to return?
    This feature has been missing for quite some time now. Is it really coming back in an improved format or have we lost it forever? My Popular Photos page ( http://www.markwweston.com/Popular ) has not changed since this feature was removed.
    Mark
    weston.photos
  • leftquarkleftquark Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,784 Many Grins
    edited March 23, 2016
    MWWeston wrote: »
    This feature has been missing for quite some time now. Is it really coming back in an improved format or have we lost it forever? My Popular Photos page ( http://www.markwweston.com/Popular ) has not changed since this feature was removed.

    In the future we'll be turning our attention back to Engagement, but we're currently working on some other exciting projects. Give us some more time and you'll see us come back to this. I can't promise that the "like" button will be back, but we certainly want to ensure that your Popular page doesn't stay stale and will have a number of ideas on how to do that.
    dGrin Afficionado
    Former SmugMug Product Team
    aaron AT aaronmphotography DOT com
    Website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com
    My SmugMug CSS Customizations website: http://www.aaronmphotography.com/Customizations
  • MWWestonMWWeston Registered Users Posts: 45 Big grins
    edited March 23, 2016
    Thank you for the reply. I am just trying to decide if I should hide/delete my popular page for now. I will continue to look for announcements.
    Mark
    weston.photos
  • TallPhotoGuyTallPhotoGuy Registered Users Posts: 160 Major grins
    edited March 27, 2016
    What is the latest on this issue
  • denisegoldbergdenisegoldberg Administrators Posts: 14,352 moderator
    edited March 27, 2016
    TallPhotoGuy wrote: »
    What is the latest on this issue
    There is an update in this thread posted a few days ago by leftquark, click here.

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    Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
  • Case1Case1 Registered Users Posts: 18 Big grins
    edited May 5, 2016
    So still no way for the users to "like" our pictures, I gather? :/
  • MWWestonMWWeston Registered Users Posts: 45 Big grins
    edited July 7, 2016
    Just a follow-up on the status our Popular Photos
    leftquark wrote: »
    In the future we'll be turning our attention back to Engagement, but we're currently working on some other exciting projects. Give us some more time and you'll see us come back to this. I can't promise that the "like" button will be back, but we certainly want to ensure that your Popular page doesn't stay stale and will have a number of ideas on how to do that.

    My Popular Photos page http://www.weston.photos/Popular has not changed in about 1 YEAR. Am I correct in understanding that our own Popular Photos pages were only populated by our long missing LIKE photo option? It seems like photo views has no impact on my Popular Photos page. Am I correct? Any insights or time lines regarding when our Popular Photos pages will come back to life? Thank you,
    Mark
    weston.photos
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