I’m not sure how achievable or realistic this would be from a technical standpoint, but I wanted to suggest a possible improvement to the user experience in Summit.

Currently, on instances where downvoting is disabled, users can still see the downvote button and attempt to use it.

After repeatedly trying to downvote, they get a multiple Downvotes icon and must manually clear it in their settings.

This can be confusing and unintuitive, especially for newer users.

Would it be possible for Summit to detect when an instance has downvoting disabled and automatically hide or disable the downvote button for users on that instance?

This could provide a cleaner interface and help avoid unnecessary confusion or frustration.

Thanks for all the continued work on Lemmy — really appreciate the effort you put into improving the platform!