En inglés por favor.

Google translated:

I would like to know where exactly the like and comment buttons are rendered, what are those views?

Likes are predefined in the social menu. This function does it:

https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/blob/5.x/mod/likes/lib/functions.php#L17

Comments are predefined in this form:

https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/blob/5.x/views/default/forms/comment/save.php

The view of button is here:

https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/blob/5.x/views/default/forms/comment/save.php#L65

Learn more about views, menus and forms

Muchas gracias me gustaría saber si es posible implementar un nuevo botón pero de no me gusta, como hacer que eso sea posible?

English please

We'd love to upgrade the community to the latest version. However like you said where do we get the time.

A lot of work needs to be done in order to update the community (lots of plugins). Also server side there need to be some updates (PHP, MySQL, search engine).

Because we keep putting it off, it becomes harder and harder to update. Once we're up to date keeping it up te date won't be such a big problem.

There is a lot of old content, honestly deleting until 2023 and giving new content to the community would be a good idea.

Well I understand that
Can you update it to work with version 3?

I've started to work on it on the weekend. As it's only for Elgg 1.x right now I have to update it for Elgg 2 first (well, that's my way of doing it anyway). Right now I'm testing it on Elgg 2. Next weekend (hopefully) I can work on updating it for Elgg 3 and then also Elgg 4.

iionlyI am really grateful to you and the elgg team
Thank you you are doing a great job

The likes action on the river applies to the 'entity' about which the river item was create.

So if a user has a new avatar that would be the user. If a new blog was created it would be the blog.

Since we decided it wasn't logical to have Likes enabled on users and groups there is no Like action on the river activity for these kinds of entities.

Also you (in the Elgg datamodel) can't like a river activity only the subject of the activity. So Liking a new avatar would be the same as Liking that that user joined a group. Therefor if you Liked the new avatar you'd also liked the group join. This isn't what a user would expect.

Hope this explains why it's not possible.

Because of the limitations of activity items they maybe should be upgrade to be entities. That allows liking them for instance. This idea has been mentioned earlier here: https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/issues/10591

That issue/mention is 5 years old (not that early), what happened?

I know Elgg is a framework and we as developers need to create things with it, but I also think Elgg is more than just a social networking framework, at least could be more.

The majority of users of Elgg use it as it is, as a social networking platform not framework, that's why you guys created so many plugins and added so much features to core...maybe it's time to push even more features...just a friendly suggestion.

I'm just a web designer and soon to be a web developer, I really want to be able to help with this project, but will take time, like your time, which is most important, and not to mention working for free, but it's not impossible.

Thank you very much for building such and amazing platform!! I will dedicate my spare time learning more about php and Elgg to help you guys make Elgg even better. You probably heard these words before...but a scorpio keeps his word...mostly :))

Just felt the need to deviate a bit...sorry!