I don't get as many likes as Tampa, but like Navy I thought I had become dull and boring all of a sudden. Scott, do you intend to restore the notifications once the database lock issue is resolved? (You didn't mention it in your post above.)
Me too. I first thought that the lack of likes were due to it being the holiday and a slowdown of activity on the site overall. When I saw other posts getting liked and no notifications on mine, I decided I needed to step it up a bit. When that didn't work I checked my profile page and realized that I'm still liked after all...lol
As a DBA, I can understand the frustration of having too many database locks, so as a stop-gap measure, I understand. But only as a stop-gap.
I personally liked the like notification. It was always a comfort to see at least someone appreciated my posts . I hope the data base issue is fixed and we can get them again. Since I always click the show new posts on a thread, I do not tend to see my old posts, so I never see if they were liked.