Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments

End of "+1" era?

Looks like hacker news filters out emojis. My thumbs up pun has been ruined.

In all seriousness - thank god. Hopefully it won't take Google Code issue tracker like levels of effort to get people to "please star the issue if it is important to you rather than commenting with +1".

+1

I like the idea of adding more expressiveness, pictorially capturing sometimes fleeting moments of emotion or accurately representing an emotional state that can occur.

These are the following reactions:

  1. +1
  2. -1
  3. smile
  4. thinking_face
  5. heart
  6. tada

Do they capture the necessary expressiveness for the context? Facebook's reactions cover more emotions, but FB is trying to support reaction to anything that can be posted.