Cheers to Herman and his latest approach to upvotes on Bear Blog. I started this blog on Bear, and I still think it’s a wonderful service. I appreciate Herman’s thoughtful, principled approach to building and evolving it. I struggled with the upvotes, though. I don’t love upvoting in general and have written about that a few times. Herman’s new approach is to allow upvoting but hide the upvote numbers on Bear’s Discovery page. From his post: