Likes river view is incomplete

[jtilson]

Just thought I'd open a ticket about this (couldn't find an existing one)

Currently, it tries to create an annotation,and fails because the 'annotation/annotatelike' view doesn't exist..

add_to_river('annotation/annotatelike', 'likes', $user->guid, $entity->guid, "", 0, $annotation);

It should be 'river/annotation/likes/create'. This view has a @todo not finished, and just spits out the following on the river:

river:likes:object:file
or
river:likes:object:thewire, etc..

I suppose you just need to supply language strings, but that would mean a language string for each subtype.

[cash]

Do you think we should put likes in the river? The concern that I have with this is that it could easily overwhelm other activity.

[jtilson]

I'd prefer no likes in the river. We've got some 'like fanatics' that like everything they see, which definitely clogs up the stream.

[cash]

Same preference here. Someone could always add this to the river on their site with a small plugin if desired.

I'll remove the call to add river in the action and remove the incomplete view.

[ewinslow]

Just for good measure, I'm also agreed that likes don't need to show up as separate activities in the river.

[ewinslow]

I'd like to amend my opinion slightly: Likes are fine to show up in the river, but only if they get condensed. That is, I'm fine with the activity summary being "Evan likes this post", and even OK with a "like" floating a post to the top of the river, just not OK with 30 entries in a row of "<actor> likes <object>" if it's the same object.

So... likes in the river are theoretically acceptable, but as-is they are being presented as equally-weighty with every other activity, which shouldn't be the case. Easiest solution right now is to just remove them, but longer term I guess we'll just need a more sophisticated river.

[cash]

There's ticket bouncing around (probably on 1.8.x) about trying to fix the condensed river work that was started in the riverdashboard plugin.

[Cash Costello]

Fixes #3642 removing likes river code

Changeset: 0d956e1f0fb8ad6c009c217014984a3fc7c6e77f