Yup. They're nice positive reactions.
I use “like” both as agreement (it saves on forum clutter to agree rather than reply) and thanks/interesting, depending on the post.
I’m not fully sold on the life preserver for my purposes, but it would make a cool “this answers my question” emoji for the Beginner’s Zone or Purchasing Help.I was going to ask for this, too, until I accidentally rotated my phone and saw the page counts in landscape mode. The forum omits them in portrait mode (below a minimum horizontal res?), which is fine if I didn’t occasionally want to back up a page to refresh my memory without having to scroll all the way to the bottom. iOS also has a shortcut just to the top of a page, another reason to keep page counts always visible up top.
I think breaking into categories like 'agree, interesting, insightful, useful' etc creates a better feedback loop than just 'like'. When a person writes something, they aren't given a lot of feedback on the structure of their posts, their messaging, communication, etc. So when the feedback comes back as interesting, agree, insightful but they aimed for something else, that tells the poster that perhaps what they wrote and what people read are not aligned. This misalignment may lead to revectoring of the messaging that the poster had in mind initially but fell off track.We do run the risk of overthinking this, and I'd recommend stopping for a moment to think about what these things even do and why we use them. Because from a coding perspective, I'm not seeing a need for an icon but a matrix. What if you both value a contribution and agree with it? You need to have both reactions available, or a combined reaction. So now how many permutations and combinations of reaction are there? A funny, thoughtful post you disagree with? A sad, shocking, well argued post that you largely agree with but there's parts that are completely confusing and at odds with the rest of the argument? How far do you want to go down the rabbit hole? Will we need users to spend 2 minutes on every post selecting their judgement?
Presently I think 'like' works simply so contributors get feedback their content is valued, for an unspecified reason. As we aren't sorting posts by likes or merit, and there is no other value in counting reactions - they don't unlock privileges or anything - I see no particular need to develop the system. If the system is developed without a particular objective to the enhancements, there'll be an arbitrary line drawn as to what level of feedback we want. I don't have a problem with that, but it will be arbitrary and not logically selected if there's no problem directly being solved.
So the question is "what is the purpose of reactions and how can that be best optimised?" When we have an answer to that question, we'll have an idea what work does or doesn't need doing.
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}Sounds like Apple bug, have you reported it?
Isn't that only in the editor or when replying though?
Well, now I can’t get it to happen when either replying or editing on an iPad. Typical. Let me try to recreate it.
