I've been playing with the voting system on a couple of lists (this one included).

There are some weird behaviours I've noticed:

• votes are frequently not immediately reflected - a page reload is required

• some votes display as: 0 0 You dislike it (cancel)

Here we see I've voted on a message, but the counts are still zero up and zero down.

I just down-voted one of my posts as a test, and nothing changed in the page to reflect the vote. Often it takes multiple clicks, sometimes a page reload.

Browser console shows voting generates a 200 response to a POST method, but the JSON confuses me:

like 0 dislike 0 html '\n\n <form method="post" class="likeform"\n action="/archives/list/talk@lists.domain.tld/message/IK6WH4IQPZXOG3CIFV4CJGOKVFARGXA5/vote">\n <input type="hidden" name="csrfmiddlewaretoken" value="***">\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\t<a class="youlike vote "\n\t\t\thref="#like" data-vote="1" aria-label="Like thread">\n\t\t\t\t\t<i class="fa fa-thumbs-o-up"></i> 0\n\t\t\t</a>\n\t\t\t<a class="youdislike vote"\n\t\t\thref="#dislike" data-vote="-1" aria-label="Dislike thread">\n\t\t\t\t<i class="fa fa-thumbs-o-down"></i> 0\n\t\t\t</a>\n\t\t\n \n\n </form>\n'

The uwsgi.log file entry for that vote is:

[pid: 4010303|app: 0|req: 552908/575956] 127.0.0.1 () {66 vars in 1374 bytes} [Sun Aug 10 02:28:21 2025] POST /archives/list/talk@lists.domain.tld/message/IK6WH4IQPZXOG3CIFV4CJGOKVFARGXA5/vote => generated 696 bytes in 376 msecs (HTTP/1.1 200) 9 headers in 394 bytes (1 switches on core 1)

Following the Permalink beside the voting options loads the specific message with no votes showing.

Ctrl+F5 shows no votes. Re-casting vote and reloading shows no votes.

Clicking "Back to thread" shows my message and:

0 0 You dislike it (cancel)

I don't think I've ever seen reliable voting on any MM3 site, including this one (I don't think I've seen zero / zero You {like|dislike} it (cancel) here, but multiple vote attempts to see the results is not unusual).

Searching the archive shows something from ~6-7 years ago where caching was modified, seems relevant but nothing since.

Am I alone in this, or is the feature so unused that nobody else noticed this?