Currently, if you click on the number to the left of the like button, you see the users who liked the post. But the list is truncated to show only a few users. This has always been the case while using the Reactions plugin, so we ported the same behavior to the default likes (with the Reactions plugin disabled) as well last week. I’m wondering if there’s interest in being able to see all of the users who liked the post?
Since related topics do not suggest it, I am adding a link to a similar topic
Seeing the complete list of likes/reactions has been a staple in my community (on a different software) for tracking interest in a proposal or event being posted. Likes/reactions can then be associated with individuals for follow-ups or to be @mention notified for a next step. It saves a post and is a popular method.
As we’re moving to a Discourse site, this would be an incredibly useful thing to have again.
Do push the vote button since you’re interested.
I second to these points by @jordanjay29, as this has been very useful and needed feature! It used to be capped to 200 likes, but in our case users would prefer to see all likes with a single click, regardless of the total amount.
We’re planning on adding this feature back, but don’t have an exact timeline yet
I’m thinking it could look something like this and that a button three dots can occur if there is more than one type of reaction and more than 10 combined reactions with a gui that looks similar to discord but not a exact copy of discord’s interface
Votes need to be released more often. Otherwise add one from me. As I hit the limit long long agon
Yes please, bring back the original behavior - I would vote but not allowed to ![]()
Yes! Several members of the forum I run have complained about this.
We have been using Discourse for 8+ years and being able to see who liked a post is a part of the community culture. It’s a way of communicating, e.g. to know that a particular person has read the post, to get a signal that someone is interested in some project (e.g. you might contact people because they liked your post about something) and it’s a source of fun, e.g. people make memes about a particular person unexpectedly liking a particular post. People immediately noticed it when the likes were hidden, several users posted about it on the forum and everyone, including myself, thought it was clearly a step backward without any apparent benefit.
If you don’t fix it I will have to fix it myself e.g. with a plugin. Not a big problem, I have plenty of custom plugins already, but this seems like something Discourse would want to have for everyone.
I made this plugin to solve the problem for our forum:
@jordan.vidrine / @awesomerobot I wonder if we go with something like this?
I get the V control, but I wonder if it is worth it here. If you really really want to collapse you can always reload the page.
Another vote from me for the ability to view all post likes. This is very important to my community.
On a side note, those rows or walls of avatars are one of my biggest pet peeves in Discourse: If I click to reveal who liked something, I want to see names, not just avatars! The avatar-only design feels like a bit of a cruel joke to me: Showing you the right information but not in a way that’s in any way useful or parsable for a regular human, so on desktop you’re left slowly revealing the hover cards to identify people, and on mobile… you’re just out of luck. :-(
(I got desperate enough to make a simple CSS theme component to replace the avatars with names, but it can’t get around the new user limit and I wish it wasn’t necessary in the first place as most forums keep the default design.)
This is not a bad idea but it still requires clicking the like count which is still counterintuitive for me because I’ve been clicking … to see the profile pictures of everybody who liked for years now. The number is just not as easy to hit both on desktop and mobile but especially for mobile and I’m always scared I’ll accidentally end up liking some 8 year old reply. I guess something is better than nothing but I’ll always prefer the old behavior and feel like the reactions style popup should have been changed to the … menu instead of moving the likes out and into a reactions popup
Our forum has also expressed reluctance to change (which is common) and was very averse to reactive emojis other than the heart so that got turned off. I don’t use mobile a lot but I don’t know how it’s possible to “hover” an avatar on mobile to see the name.
I’d prefer clicking the number by the heart and seeing a list of names with small avatars instead of a giant grid of Gravatar colors and letters. Our forum isn’t huge though and rarely do posts get liked more than 10 times, and 20-25 happens but is rare.
It doesn’t need to be tiny to stay out of the way. If someone clicks to see likes they want the info, so a larger modal pop-up temporarily in front of the interface showing avatar/username/name in a scrollable list would be fine (maybe even allowing user to hover names on that list to show the entire user profile card). Usually when viewing likes, people aren’t simultaneously needing to read message content.
