Here's an odd little Subeta quirk that I've learned of recently: you can apparently only like 25 avatars each day. I ran into an issue like this before when liking posts and avatars, but I never paid it much mind. I noticed that after a certain point, the likes just wouldn't stick. The heart would go back to gray and I couldn't get it to register that I've liked something. Figured it was just the site having a moment, but nope. Apparently there's a limit to how many likes you can give out.

Having a miserable 25 likes you can give out is, in fact, absolute bullshit. If you want more user activity on the site, you don't limit people like this. It's a stupidly low number to have to spread out among so many amazing and creative avatars! I hope to everything that the 25 likes don't apply to avatars, posts & news comments altogether, because if your account only gets 25 likes to give out daily, well... Let's just say that whoever came up with that idea is asking to get toothpaste in their trick-or-treat bucket. 😒

Raise the number to 250, please! Or even better: get rid of the cap altogether, if it's possible.

[edit] Here's another thought: do pet likes count for the like limit too? Because you can like pets too.

Likes for forum posts, avatars, news comments & pets appear to be separate. I've hit the cap for liking HAs, but I can still like posts, pets and news comments.

I second this. As far as I know they don't attribute to anything, like winning any prizes or any sort of thing you could artificially inflate to gain anything from, so why have a limit at all? I can't see an situation they're being spammed or slowing the server down. I enjoy going through posts quite often to find beautiful or really creative ones.

Given it's really like... just for giggles at this point, there's no prizes or anything for X amount, why is there a limit? I mean, I'm like the second or third to question that on this topic but still.

Exactly! I want to like so many amazing avatars that I see while randomly trick-or-treating, but I keep saving my likes. What if I see an amazing HA and I have no likes left to give?

I shouldn't have to think up reasons to not like someone's avatar/post/comment purely because of a limited supply of likes. That's just sad and discouraging. Plus it feeds into the whole mindset of "find something wrong with that person/object/hobby so you don't have to feel bad for not liking them!". And imo, Subeta shouldn't be helping to feed that beast.

The vast majority of time I don't come anywhere near to using up my 25 likes. Except for Morostide and Masquerade.

I'd like to know why they limited it in the first place. Would also like some confirmation on what 25 likes means...as brought up. I understood it to mean that you can like 25 posts, 25 HAs and 25 pets, but I have nothing to confirm it.

Well, I've hit my daily limit of liked HAs already. "error: Whoops, you've liked the limit today!" when trying to like a really neat HA. I can't un-like a previously liked avatar to get that like-point back to give it to someone else. 👌 (Edit: apparently you can un-like someone's HA, it just took the site 50 years to process things yesterday.)

@ lypsyl Been testing it a bit and it looks like they might have separate counters.

I've liked your post after hitting the daily cap on likes and it took some 20 minutes to show up as liked, but it showed up. It takes way less time to register on a normal day, so I'm guessing the lag's behind that. I liked a news comment, and that did show up as liked immediately. Also liked a pet of mine. It showed up as liked on the pet's profile immediately, but it took some 15-20 minutes for it to show up on my pets.php page.

Good to have that confirmation.

There was an HA contest many years ago (2011?), Summer in Centropolis, where they used likes to judge winners. There were complaints that it would be/was a popularity contest rather than an HA contest.

I also feel this is just artificially weird. Granted I barely hit my cap, I also wasnt aware there was a cap in the first place. I don't feel itd put any strain on the servers and as mentioned it puts the user base into a weird position of needing to choose what to like which doesnt sit right with me.

Another interesting thing that's worth noting: the likes expire after exactly 24 hours. They don't reset at midnight Subeta time.

Yeah that bugs me. I often post in a thread about HA likes and I've really noticed this effect a lot. Especially since I change my HA pretty much daily.

Yep, I know the feeling. :/ It's ruining the mood.

I don't know if they can make it reset whenever someone changes their HA (that could be overkill), or having them all reset at midnight Subeta time (also potential overkill, considering the site's been hiccuping with quests post-reset), but increasing the number of overall likes would really help with the 24-hour expiration. Let's be real - nobody keeps tabs on when they've started liking HAs. And there's a LOT of cool HAs around.

I've noticed this cap before, and I have to agree that it's a bit weird. I'd support either a much higher cap, or just removing the upper limit altogether.

I also barely touch the cap, but it's the sort of thing where like no one would be hurt by removing it so I also don't see why it's still in place. I agree that users shouldn't have to choose between stuff when they've hit the cap, it's just odd.