After about a year off the "Thanks" button is back for logged in members and all 75,000+ thanks from the past are again visible!
A major upgrade of the server last year broke several features of the site. I was able to fix almost all of them but the Thanks button add-on was long outdated and unsupported and I wasn't able to fix the code myself in many tries. Finally this morning I came across some information that got me to the problem. Sorry it took so long.
You can thank me now
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