Hi Product Hunt! I made a Chrome extension to hide likes and other vanity metrics to help me focus more on authenticity over approval when creating and browsing online. Enjoy!
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(based on the email post from PH and not just this extension)
Why not the platform allow this feature as optional?
Meaning the creator of the post decides where he/she enables the post to have likes (and other such stuff) enabled on his/her post or not.
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Love this! I'm working on a social network in which I hide all of this. Love seeing other's creating products that reverse our current situation
It's an amazing idea and I'm a huge fan!
Only one thing would be great to have is to choose what likes you want to hide and what don't.
For example, I'd like to remain Reddit votes, I filter content with them, and hide at the other social media.
@guar47 Hey Dmitrii! If you click on the extension icon when you're on reddit.com, you can disable it just for Reddit while keeping it for everything else.
The idea of no likes seems good in some ways, but not others. If it’s positive content, I’d love to see it getting lots of likes and loves, but I guess it’s a double edged sword.
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The like has been abused and has taken a new meaning. It is the sources of all online presence stress and the associated anxiety!
At first I thought that this was a bad idea. I thought, "How do we know if we are posting good quality content if we have no likes." In other words, if I post something and just get a few likes then I know that my friends (or followers) are not interested in seeing that. But then I realized that if a post is of really good quality then people will take the time to make a comment. It is the way social media used to work a long time ago before the "Like" button.
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