I think it is definitely the end of +1 era, folks! Thanks Github to listen to the community feature requests. You should allow more icons like Slack is doing currently.
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#12I 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…
All I want is slack's :partyparrot: and I'm satisfied.
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#13Stoked about this feature! Can't wait until these are available in the API!
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#14Wow! GitHub is being influenced by GitLab (who released this feature recently in GitLab 8.4).
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#15I 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…
Considering that it's Github, how about things relevant to software engineering, like: agree, disagree, support, insightful, obsolete, misleading. I can't imagine it being helpful to know that someone felt "heart" about an issue comment.
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#16Finally. Let's just hope it doesn't email you when someone leave's a +1 reaction.
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#17I think people will still write +1 comments because they won't notice this new feature, at least initially. It'd be nice if Github just converted "+1" comments into reactions.
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#18Looks like Dear GitHub[1] is having a rather quick impact on the product; first templates[2], now this:
[1] https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github
[2] https://github.com/blog/2111-issue-and-pull-request-template...
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#19I 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…
I recently wrote a post about Facebook Reactions and if it would be effective at helping quantify sentiment. (http://minimaxir.com/2016/02/facebook-reactions/) The tl;dr is that I believe that Reactions are redundant outside of positive/negative classification.
GitHub actually has both +1 and -1, which satisfies me. But there's not much productive purpose with a smile/heart/tada other than to be quirky. (The thinking_face is neutral and adds nothing in this aspect)
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#20This is a welcome addition. I've run into bugs in projects before and wanted to "+1" a thread, but it always felt like spamming the maintainers.
It'd be cool if they added a way to search through your list of reactions. This would allow you to effectively comment on an issue in an OS project, while simultaneously bookmarking it, so that you can go back and commit a fix when you have a free moment.