Reaction columns on the user list / leaderboard?

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mattdm proposes adding reaction columns to the user leaderboard, suggesting options to either replace likes with total reactions, display reactions separately, or enable individual columns for each custom reaction. mattdm outlines a practical implementation: keep likes columns unchanged, add default-on “Reactions” columns, include a “Likes & Reactions” sum column, and allow per-reaction columns, all configurable via the plugin.

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Continuing from: Discourse Reactions

Would it be possible to add reaction options to the new (well, not so new now, but you know) leaderboard?

Particularly, it seems like it’d be nice have:

  • an option to to replace the likes columns with the sum of likes and reactions (for sites where the reactions are really just fun other positive flair)
  • just a separate set of columns for reactions next to those for likes (for sites where reactions are distinct from likes, but not particularly interesting individually)
  • the option to indivually enable columns for any custom reaction (for sites where different reactions have significant distinct meaning)

The first one is really all I need for my sites, but I can see uses for the others.

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Since it’s a plugin, and since the UI already allows for enabling or disabling columns, I think the most straightforward way would be to

  1. Leave “Likes” columns alone
  2. Add default-on “Reactions” columns when you enable the plugin.
  3. Add default-off “Likes & Reactions” columns. (Even though that’s my use-case, I understand the general reason to keep them separate.)
  4. Add optional columns for each reaction just like there are for each custom user field.

I suppose there could be plugin settings to also control, but it seems like just the column control should be sufficient.

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