You can't downvote articles, you can't downvote replies to your own comments, you can't downvote comments that are a day or so old and older, etc. So make sure you're looking at a thing that's actually downvotable (e.g. a toplevel comment in a front page thread).
From time to time (like once or twice per month) HN goes to read only mode for a few minutes (while dang is making some weird update?), and the downvote buttons disappear. Can this be the explanation???
You can't downvote articles, you can't downvote replies to your own comments, you can't downvote comments that are a day or so old and older, etc. So make sure you're looking at a thing that's actually downvotable (e.g. a toplevel comment in a front page thread).
Ah you’re right. Thank you.
Never mind. Suddenly I can see downvote button now so maybe just HN server hiccup?
From time to time (like once or twice per month) HN goes to read only mode for a few minutes (while dang is making some weird update?), and the downvote buttons disappear. Can this be the explanation???