When I downvote a post from a community based in an instance that disabled downvotes (ie Beehaw), who sees that downvote? Only me? Only other Mlem users? Only users that share my instance? Everyone but Beehaw users?
It’s my understanding that if your local instance has downvoting disabled the vote is rejected and not counted.
The current version of the app may be incorrectly displaying it, but this should be resolved in the next version.
As we integrate more with the API we should be able to hide the downvote button when we detect your server has the feature disabled too 🤞
The API rejects the downvote. In the current build this shows up as the downvote being de-highlighted as soon as the API comes back with the failure response–in the future we’d like to have the downvote button disabled in instances where it’s disabled, but that’s a pretty low priority feature at the moment
I’m curious about this even outside of a mlem perspective - do beehaw posts accumulate downvotes but just not display them, or are they accumulated and shown to downvote-enabled instances, or are they just thrown away?
I’d assume they’re just thrown away. Haven’t poked the code myself but if they’re disabled only via the UI that’d hardly be disabled
They’re rejected by the API if you attempt to downvote on beehaw, so I’d say they’re thrown away 👍
Currently the app does not check if the server has downvoting disabled, we’ll do this in a future version, and remove the downvote button in that active account to reflect the server’s availability.
