Single comment thread
See full discussion

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 (πŸ‘), multiple types (e.g. πŸ‘ 😍 😒 πŸŽ‰), or allow any emoji like Slack has:

Here's the shortlist used by GitHub

Fyi, the πŸ‘&πŸ‘Ž emojis are used as vote counters and their sums are directly made available from the API

Home
Search
Messages
Notifications
More