Hide Likes Everywhere
Consumer and social
social media wellbeing
SHOW HN2019
151points
62comments
#281of 2,195 in 2019
Top 13%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
14 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 8 critical, out of 39 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.
Idea: 9 for, 5 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good idea for reducing comparison and metric-driven behaviour
From 3 comments
Likes themselves (and ranking content using them) aren't the problem — it's their public nature that makes it feel as if our social value is determined by them. If likes,…
dkthehuman on HNLike stated on the page it probably helps to stop comparing yourself to others. You call it "information disadvantage", but exactly this is the feature. Social media is…
_def on HNThis is a cool idea. Gameifying popularity in virtual environments is a cringeworthy trend in the modern world. Nice to see a little push back. Reminds me of Myspace's "Top 8"…
kempbellt on HN
Hiding likes but keeping likes is a good balance
From 1 comment
Hiding likes to avoid bias towards "liking" a post is good. Preventing likes is not good. This seems like a good balance - still allows for ppl to unbiasedly like and for the…
coolswan on HN
Looks well executed
From 1 comment
This is a seriously great idea and looks well executed. Just to add to the chorus of Firefox requesters. I’m sure you have limited dev resources but the spirit of this concept is…
mindgam3 on HN
Objections
Hiding counts does not change algorithmic ranking based on likes
From 2 comments
While I agree with the sentiment, I don't understand how this helps: all of these platforms prioritize sort order based upon likes/popularity/engagement. You're just putting…
meritt on HNThis won't prevent you from being manipulated by vanity metrics. All of the metrics have already been crunched -- the 20 posts at the top of /r/all are there because they've been…
anonytrary on HN
Could be a uBlock filter list instead of an extension
From 2 comments
Wouldn't this make more sense as a ublock list/set of rules? I don't want to install this random extension.
maest on HNI already adblock the Like elements from the sites I browse. It's less clutter on screen and if you never vote it serves no purpose. A lot of that stuff is 3rd party junk anyway.…
RenRav on HN
Hiding votes removes useful signal about quality
From 2 comments
This is a good idea in theory, as it will reduce your fomo and probably jealously. But I bet if you try this for a week, you'll remember why the like/votes metric is important...…
gitgud on HNThe downside is this hides who reacted to what, and in what way. Usually that's more important to me than the count. If I know several pretty sharp people (dis)like something,…
ARandomerDude on HN
Requests
Firefox support
From 4 comments
Is Firefox support on your roadmap, DK? I'd use this in a hurry, as someone who meticulously hides social 'like' elements via Ublock Origin for the same reasons as described on…
dvtrn on HNChiming in as another firefox user to say that I'd try this if my browser were supported.
333c on HNThis is a seriously great idea and looks well executed. Just to add to the chorus of Firefox requesters. I’m sure you have limited dev resources but the spirit of this concept is…
mindgam3 on HN@dkthehuman Do you plan on releasing a Firefox version?
TheUndead96 on HN
Safari support
From 1 comment
Any plans to release it on Safari? :)
trollitarantula on HN
Open source code
From 1 comment
where is the source code brother
Wordball on HN
Narrower site permissions
From 1 comment
It would be good if this only requested permission to read the relevant sites, instead of all sites. I tried using Chrome's options to manually restrict the allowed sites but the…
asdfasgasdgasdg on HN
Questions
Will it be released for Firefox
From 2 comments
Is Firefox support on your roadmap, DK? I'd use this in a hurry, as someone who meticulously hides social 'like' elements via Ublock Origin for the same reasons as described on…
dvtrn on HN@dkthehuman Do you plan on releasing a Firefox version?
TheUndead96 on HN
Will it work on old reddit
From 1 comment
This is awesome, can you make it work on the old reddit design as well? old.reddit.com
davegri on HN
Alternatives named
uBlock Origin element hiding
From 2 comments
I already adblock the Like elements from the sites I browse. It's less clutter on screen and if you never vote it serves no purpose. A lot of that stuff is 3rd party junk anyway.…
RenRav on HNI LOVE THIS!!! I've hidden my score/points on HN via UBlock Origin. I've also hidden the downvote button so I can't downvote anyone (one reason I wish I could run another browser…
greggman2 on HN
Ben Grosser's Demetricators
From 1 comment
See also Ben Grosser's Facebook[1], Instagram[2], and Twitter[3] Demetricators. [1] https://bengrosser.com/projects/facebook-demetricator/ [2]…
dcre on HN
StyleBot custom CSS
From 1 comment
If you use StyleBot you can add css to sites to remove particular elements such as like counts. It might be fun to just start zapping away lots of stuff that you don't want to see.
RobKohr on HN