# Bug: Likes not shown in private notebook

**URL:** <https://talk.observablehq.com/t/bug-likes-not-shown-in-private-notebook/2185>\
**Category:** Feedback\
**Created:** [July 20, 2019, 11:06am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/bug-likes-not-shown-in-private-notebook/2185 "2019-07-20T11:06:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![mootari](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mootari/32/581_2.png) [@mootari](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mootari)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2019, 7:24pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/bug-likes-not-shown-in-private-notebook/2185/4 "2019-07-20T19:24:23Z")

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> [@mbostock](#):
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> It’s expected behavior to not show likes on private notebooks—those are only for shared and public notebooks. So we shouldn’t be showing the likes in the notebook listing, either.

Why though? I would think that treating private notebooks differently increases the maintenance burden (as demonstrated by this bug), and @tom mentioned bookmarking as a valid use of self likes:

> [@See , who liked a notebook](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/see-who-liked-a-notebook/728/4):
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> Just interested, what is the reasoning behind letting people like their own notebooks?
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> (Or is there any?)

> [@See , who liked a notebook](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/see-who-liked-a-notebook/728/5):
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> In short, some folks like to, and some people use likes as bookmarks, so it makes sense for them to be able to ‘bookmark’ their own content, the same way they can like their own tweets or start their own GitHub repositories.

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