I tried liking the parent post in a boing topic and the post itself disappeared and was replaced with ‘…’. I couldn’t expand it as no “Show Full Post” button appeared until I reloaded the page.
Why is liking a root post causing it to collapse?
If this is intended behavior, why isn’t the Show Full Post button appearing until I reload?
I just tested it with a topic with no comments and it indeed collapsed when I gave it a like. From the other side, why liking a post before you have read it? Maybe not a bug but a feature?
In my case, I read the post and then liked it. It’s also possible for someone to read the post on the main page and then like it after following the comments link.
I’ve seen similar behavior happen when flagging a root post (which I will do sometimes to alert the staff of things like typos, bad links, updates to the story, etc) but I understand that behavior more.
It can happen when anyone else clicks the Like button, too. I think it can also happen when someone clicks the “Originally published at” link, because I’ve seen it happen without the Like Counter incrementing.
Yup. I get it too, with stock browser on Samsung Galaxy s4, Android Lollipop. For topics consisting of a picture or video only, the Show Full Post button will never work. I open the story in a separate tab for those. For text or text/photo pieces, I can read the story until someone likes it or I like it. It doesn’t matter whether or not there are follow-up posts, it acts the same either way.