Facebook Reactions
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Re: Facebook Reactions
#2People wanted a dislike button, got a series of redundant emoticons with very little space for actual disagreement.
Which is actually good, because it won't transform Facebook into a mess of flames and negativity. Wait, maybe it's already too late for that...
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#3Brilliant! The design kept the primary operation to be the like. And, elegantly provides an 'advanced' secondary operation for those that want a more nuanced expression.
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#4And not even a courtesy hat tip to Slack. Tsk tsk.
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#5And not even a courtesy hat tip to Slack. Tsk tsk.
To be fair -- the hat tip should probably go to Path.
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#6Caring...
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#7I'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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#8For 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
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#9Reminds me of Slack's emoji responses to messages. Alas, we don't have quite as much flexibility here. Being able to respond to things with sneks is fun.
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#10Anyone remember YouTube Reactions? Died because no one used them.
Hell, even BuzzFeed, the pioneer of reaction culture, implemented Reactions but are slowly depreciating them.