I've been on the fence for this one as I think it's a two-edged sword.
One the one hand it's a useful way showing someone you saw their todos and appreciate it. Not everything warrants a written comment.
But on the other hand, it's so easy those claps can quickly lose their meaning. And only a lack of claps remains meaningful, but in a bad way.
It wouldn't be too hard to run an experiment for a few weeks and see what happens. It's a relatively easy feature to build. (We actually experimented with this same idea, but only available through the chat. So the foundation is already built).
Their approach is quite interesting too. I prototyped it for WIP, but eventually settled on regular comments.
But it's definitely something we can explore. We could have one type of reaction (👏), multiple types (e.g. 👏 😍 😢 🎉), or allow any emoji like Slack has:
Add a way of "clapping" a task and not only the comments
I've been on the fence for this one as I think it's a two-edged sword.
One the one hand it's a useful way showing someone you saw their todos and appreciate it. Not everything warrants a written comment.
But on the other hand, it's so easy those claps can quickly lose their meaning. And only a lack of claps remains meaningful, but in a bad way.
It wouldn't be too hard to run an experiment for a few weeks and see what happens. It's a relatively easy feature to build. (We actually experimented with this same idea, but only available through the chat. So the foundation is already built).
What if you add a small set of icons to show "reactions", like the one's at FB?
Yeah those those are fun, but also have their downsides. Basecamp wrote a great article about it: Introducing Boosts: an all-new way to show your support in Basecamp
Their approach is quite interesting too. I prototyped it for WIP, but eventually settled on regular comments.
But it's definitely something we can explore. We could have one type of reaction (👏), multiple types (e.g. 👏 😍 😢 🎉), or allow any emoji like Slack has:
Here's the shortlist used by GitHub
Fyi, the 👍&👎 emojis are used as vote counters and their sums are directly made available from the API