X.com silently deletes new likes likes on old posts

fennec-posix 205 days ago |

As far as I know, Twitter has always done this since the "Likes" were introduced. I don't think they're recorded in a permanent manner on who liked what, just the total number of likes per post as a counter.

verdverm 205 days ago | |

how would they show me my like history if not storing it?

Otter-man 205 days ago | | |

Surprisingly it does show these posts on your "Likes" page in your profile. But they aren't marked as liked, and liking one will increase the like indicator.

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 205 days ago | | |

> But they aren't marked as liked, and liking one will increase the like indicator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eventual_consistency

In addition to "optimistic UI". https://imhoff.blog/posts/optimistic-ui-primer

The UI optimistically allows the user to tap/click the like button and the eventually-consistent backend determines if the like is valid. The UI doesn't verify if the user is allowed to like because that's the backend's job.

Tom Scott has a video on it. https://youtube.com/watch?v=RY_2gElt3SA

Otter-man 205 days ago | | |

this explains so much, thank you!

Suppafly 205 days ago |

x.com doesn't even seem to really work anymore, i'm surprised they haven't lost all their users yet.

Otter-man 205 days ago | |

No, it works just fine? And this particular problem i think is date pre-elon because people were complaining about disappearing likes for a few years.

Suppafly 204 days ago | | |

Maybe through the app, but I get sent links to x things all the time and they just straight up don't load. Same thing with links to old x threads linked from different websites.

someothherguyy 205 days ago |

plenty of users purge their own likes