I’m still confused as to why you
ported the same behavior to the default likes
Why change an established feature that worked really well and replace it with a truncated list that now lists likes in an awkward floating panel at the bottom of the view?
It’s a mix of two things: there’s a need to make our interface more consistent and simpler to maintain by reusing a smaller set of common components, and before this topic I don’t think we realized how much people wanted to see the full list!
We’re putting some more priority behind this now as it’s the most voted-for Contribute > Feature at the moment!
Oh right, fair enough.
Out of interest is there a place you moot changes to the UX you’re considering so Discourse users can give their thoughts?
It’s a bit different for DiS to most I think because we had to receive a lot of updates quickly to allow us to fix a feature so we’ve suddenly got new spacing to posts (which messes up how nice our Connections results look, 1st world probs etc 
) but also the new edit interface and font designs as well as this likes change. So it feels like an avalanche rather than a gradual evolution 
Meta is the closest thing we have to this, but there’s a lot that happens that doesn’t get discussed here first so there’s no comprehensive source of what’s happening. We don’t map out everything we’re working on like some organizations do, so we don’t always know with certainty ourselves.
We have recently starting using an “upcoming changes” feature that is available on all recently-updated Discourse sites, and this will provide a warning and some time for bigger changes coming down the pipeline and links to a discussion here. More info on that: Upcoming Changes
There’s also a new releases.discourse.org site that presents a release timeline and when you click through to a specific version you can see highlighted changes there… for example, v2026.3.0 Changelog | Discourse Releases — this details every commit, but at this point the change has already been made… so it’s more of a heads up when you’re updating from version to version rather than a preemptive discussion, but hopefully it helps.
The former interface where a simple click shows ALL likes by user profile pic is a fundamental aspect of a forum. Removing it in this fashion is upsetting a lot of people including me. I can see that you are working on a fix, which is appreciated, but as Theo mentioned above, the floating panel is also terrible. It worked beautifully to have the overlay appear right under the post. Perfect, no need to change. I’m just here to voice my frustration at seeing this new feature on my forum’s update. Just really ruins the experience for me coming from the love of original form interface.
The fix is almost ready and I daresay it’s better than it was before (famous last designer words)
Live on Meta :
Couple of tiny tweaks left, but I personally already love it
Thanks to @davidb for the great work!
Looks great! I can even scroll down to load more!
One teeny-tiny problem though. If a post has very few reactions, there’s too much blank space?
Working on it 
wil be fixed soon
Already fixed
This looks great at a glance, thanks @chapoi and devs!
It’d be great if Discourse remembered the last time you looked at the reactions for a post, and showed only the ones added since last time (maybe in a “New” tab). It know this might sound overkill, but from my own experience “scanning for new reactions” is one of the main use cases when opening a post’s reactions.
definitely much better, i am very happy that we can finally view everything all these years later again after it got truncated 
now that’s all left to do is fix my weird habit of clicking the … menu to view likes
what decides if the reactions are to the right like on meta or anchored to the heart button like on my instance? i haven’t been able to get it to look like it does on meta (not sure if i want that, but i am just curious right now)
I think it changed with the update today. They used to look like on your forum
There is a feature topic about the positions here Is it possible to configure reactions to stay in one place?
It’s possible because I did just rebuild 10 minutes ago but this is confusing to me, I don’t know which the new normal is
All displays on the left is the new normal.
Oh yeah… checked safe mode, seems to be something in my theme doing that somehow?
I’ll investigate on my own time
