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'Like' broken on develop?

Hello !Friendica Support
I just noticed I cannot 'like' anything on my develop nodes. When I click on 'like' the link becomes colored. But the text 'User liked this' doesn't appear. Also after a page reload I see no indication whatsoever that I liked the item.

Can someone on current develop confirm this?

Thanks.

!Friendica Support
Steffen K9 🐰
Steffen K9 🐰  
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...after deleting/clearing the browser cache it's working again. Sorry for the noise. 😀
Steffen K9 🐰
Steffen K9 🐰  
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Ah! The usual clear-your-browser-cache issue. :facepalm
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Roland Häder
Roland Häder  
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The thing is that your browser has a bug that prevents it from noticing changes in JavaScript/CSS files. I found it half-hearted what is done here in #Friendica as only the version number is included in the URL of such files. Cache-busting is a technique that gives buggy browsers a new URL each time the CSS/JS file has been changed, e.g. by adding the commit id to the URL and not just only the URL. If that is done to Friendica, you won't have to flush your browser cache every time you update your instances.
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Steffen K9 🐰
Steffen K9 🐰  
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You only need to do that when you are on develop - the branch for developers and testers. It is working flawlessly when you update from release to release. So I don't think it's a big deal.
Roland Häder
Roland Häder  
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Maybe so, you won't fix it ultimately with it but a commit id does fix it once and for all.
Marshall Massey
Marshall Massey  
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I can no longer “like” postings as an ordinary venera-based Friendica user. I’ve taken to uploading a 26-pixel-wide thumbs-up emoji instead, but it’s a bandwidth-waster by comparison.
Steffen K9 🐰
Steffen K9 🐰  
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please clear your browser cache. This will fix it.

Roland Häder doesn't like this.

Marshall Massey
Marshall Massey  
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@Steffen K9 🐰 — that works in “Network”, but not in “Community”. Alas.
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Roland Häder
Roland Häder  
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Please make a ticket on Friendica's bug tracker for asking a proper solution, asking users to clear their browser cache is old-school and defeats the purpose of cache-busting which would ultimately fix the problem by providing the browser a new URL every (!) single time a change has been uploaded.
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