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The like updates are timed improperly and the number keeps going down and then up and then down. I got a lot of shit at work for a similar bug on a JS ticker, I'm glad I'm not the only one!

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Could this be because some people (at 120,000 now) are unliking and dropping the count for a moment?

More likely a propagation/aggregation issue.

It's probably just because it's firing off a ton of ajax requests and just displaying the results as they come back, regardless of the request order.

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