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Re: Facebook Reactions

#11

Post by myth_buster »

Would just clicking on the "Like" button consider it as like or would the users have to hold press and select "Like"?

If someone has already selected "Wow", "Sad" or something similar, it perhaps would be useful to just click on the icon next to aggregation rather than doing the long-press behavior.

I suppose on the desktop site, perhaps mouseover may show the reactions.

I think overall it requires more effort on the user's part as opposed to just clicking on the like button and moving on. Which perhaps was the reason for the like button's initial success.

Re: Facebook Reactions

#12

Post by [deleted] »

msoad wrote: post #7

I've seen this in a developer phone. The downside is "number of likes" will be lower because those other emotions are not counted as "likes" and there is no indicator of how many total reactions you got. Of course you can add it up but it's not calculated by default.

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Re: Facebook Reactions

#13

Post by feider »

Shish2k wrote: post #8

For disagreement, write a comment explaining /why/ you disagree. (It's similar to HN's policy* of "prefer discussion to downvotes") * EDIT: I mean culture; as in I've seen it mentioned a lot by users of the site, though it's not in the rules

Why should it not be possible simply by clicking?

Re: Facebook Reactions

#14

Post by degenerate »

minimaxir wrote: post #10

Anyone remember YouTube Reactions? Died because no one used them. Hell, even BuzzFeed , the pioneer of reaction culture, implemented Reactions but are slowly depreciating them.

The problem is that you can't aggregate them. 1 Like and 4 dislikes = "20% like this". What are you going to do with a bunch of faces to show consensus? And which of those faces am I supposed to use to say this post is filled with misinformation and you shouldn't be spreading it ... Angry? Sad?

Re: Facebook Reactions

#15

Post by anjc »

My Facebook newsfeed looks very childish with these icons dotted throughout. It's horrible, and I don't think it could be rolled out.

Re: Facebook Reactions

#17

Post by frofroggy »

I wonder if they chose the angry reaction to follow the nonviolent communication pattern: due to followed by followed by .

For example, "I felt angry when you wrote that any realistic web browser has to support Javascript. I have a need for using a text browser to bypass abuses of Javascript on websites with articles, so I would like you to view with both w3m and Firefox."

The "dislike" action would not fit the nonviolent communication pattern.

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