One tap to open reaction menu

I was wrong. If you change the phrase for the menu from Like to Ratings or reactions or whatever, then it also changes the name of the actual like. :(
But this is bad because in translations should be made Reactions, after clicking, Reacted there. Like before. There was like -> liked. Now should be reaction -> reacted, there should be one more phrase.
 
Doesn't mean it's the best, also I hardly ever visit Facebook let alone use the reactions.
No, it may not be the best implementation but it is consistent with behaviour on what's probably the biggest social media platform which many people do use (though not you, obviously).

I can see the devs getting it in the neck whichever way they jump - leave as it is and they'll get complaints at the implementation, change it and they'll get complaints that it works differently from what users are used to elsewhere.
 
It wouldn't be confusing for the many people who use Facebook as this is exactly the same implementation that they use.
One of the reasons I rarely use Facebook is the unintuitive user interface. I know plenty of people,who use forums happily, who do not like or use Facebook.

It’s not really comparable imo
 
No, it may not be the best implementation but it is consistent with behaviour on what's probably the biggest social media platform which many people do use (though not you, obviously).

I can see the devs getting it in the neck whichever way they jump - leave as it is and they'll get complaints at the implementation, change it and they'll get complaints that it works differently from what users are used to elsewhere.
There isn’t anything wrong with options of having it one way or the other, at least a few people would like to have that choice. :)
 
Hopefully one of the main developers will provide more options in their 2.1 versions. @Xon's implementation was great.
While addons tend to fill the gaps of core features/options I recently have started thinking ahead and realized that the odds of an addon being ready for a major core release is getting slim if at all.
 
One of the reasons I rarely use Facebook is the unintuitive user interface. I know plenty of people,who use forums happily, who do not like or use Facebook.

It’s not really comparable imo
It is comparable. I know plenty of people who use forums happily and also use Facebook. :)

There isn’t anything wrong with options of having it one way or the other, at least a few people would like to have that choice. :)
I'm not saying that there shouldn't be options. Arguably there should be an option to change this so you have to click or tap to get the Reactions smilies, especially considering that they changed the menus to require clicks to show them (though they do still have hover over the Member tooltip which used to be a click if I recall when it was the old Member card, I do wish that was a click).

My initial post was in response to it being blanket stated that it was confusing. I guess it may be to some who don't use Facebook but to many who do, it isn't as it's the same as they use there. :)

FWIW I have liked the first post. ;)
 
Yeah, this current implementation is confusing. You have to press or hover over a link that says "Like" to find an "Angry" reaction?
I have added a suggestion for two phrases for Like, one for the reactions menu and one for the like itself.

This at least would solve part of the discussion in this thread

 
I definitely think this needs to happen, and I think the best solution would be to choose how you want the reactions menu to open in settings.

A: Hover to show menu, click to like
B: Click to show menu, click again to like
C: Click to open menu, and choose reaction (button doesn't give a like by default).
 
I would love to see this suggestion adopted. Another good option for those of us who don't have a lot of reactions would be to have all of them showing and press-able without having to do anything to bring them up for display.
 
On mobile it is rather annoying to open the reaction menu.

I suggest taking it a few steps farther. Click to open the Reactions and Share this post menu, and not just for mobile. Many of our members using mice click the Like so fast they haven't noticed the Reactions menu. I suggest making the mouseover of these two items pop a tooltip and a click/tap pops the menu.

Sorry I missed this post before posting this:

 
This is the reason to have the text say something else (e.g. rate) instead of Like.

True, but there is a momentum issue. People have gotten used to decades of seeing "Like". A tooltip might help the transition. I suppose "Like" could one day change to something "Vote"?
 
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