diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/widgets/post-menu.js.es6 b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/widgets/post-menu.js.es6
index 35102e597..bbffb5be3 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/widgets/post-menu.js.es6
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/widgets/post-menu.js.es6
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import { createWidget } from 'discourse/widgets/widget';
 import { avatarAtts } from 'discourse/widgets/actions-summary';
 import { h } from 'virtual-dom';
-import User from 'discourse/models/user';
 
 const LIKE_ACTION = 2;
 
@@ -308,7 +307,7 @@ export default createWidget('post-menu', {
   },
 
   like() {
-    if (!User.current()) {
+    if (!this.currentUser) {
       return this.sendWidgetAction('showLogin');
     }
     const attrs = this.attrs;
diff --git a/test/javascripts/widgets/post-test.js.es6 b/test/javascripts/widgets/post-test.js.es6
index e644558f8..67886da76 100644
--- a/test/javascripts/widgets/post-test.js.es6
+++ b/test/javascripts/widgets/post-test.js.es6
@@ -181,6 +181,26 @@ widgetTest('liking', {
   }
 });
 
+widgetTest('anon liking', {
+  template: '{{mount-widget widget="post-menu" args=args showLogin="showLogin"}}',
+  anonymous: true,
+  setup() {
+    const args = { showLike: true };
+    this.set('args', args);
+    this.on("showLogin", () => this.loginShown = true);
+  },
+  test(assert) {
+    assert.ok(!!this.$('.actions button.like').length);
+    assert.ok(this.$('.actions button.like-count').length === 0);
+
+    click('.actions button.like');
+    andThen(() => {
+      assert.ok(this.loginShown);
+    });
+  }
+});
+
+
 widgetTest('edit button', {
   template: '{{mount-widget widget="post" args=args editPost="editPost"}}',
   setup() {