I the update makes sense with reactions but as an admin of a site where there is only “likes” and no other reacts I think it makes less sense.
I got complaints about the inability to see all likes and now the new placement seems odd so I’m sure I’ll hear about that too. I might just have to theme component on top of it
yes, looks like a fix is coming soon:
haha sorry i saw after my post, i was editing while you replied 
I have thought about the case of forums where reactions aren’t enabled, too. In this case, I not only find the change in position odd, but I also think it’s unnecessary to include the type of reaction after the name. To me, it doesn’t provide any helpful information in that case.
I wonder if components like Change the Like Icon to 👍 now need support to replace this emoji too.
This is what it looks like on my end. The duplicated hearts are confusing - which do I click? The counter change happening on the other side of the post is also unintuitive.
Again, I understand this makes sense for when you are managing a variety of reaction types but it makes an assumption that I’m using reactions in the first place.
I whipped up a quick theme component and will probably use this going forward.
I gather you mean the reaction icons here:
Yes, I mean those. Which nuances do I see on a forum where the reactions plugin is disabled so every reaction is a like?
Ah, I skimmed too quickly to catch up and missed the in this case. Apologies!
While I’m here sharing unsolicited opinions, I do think the “All” tab is redundant/unnecessary/noisy and if you removed it, you wouldn’t need that reaction type column on the right
5 posts were split to a new topic: Restoring one like button for reactions-disabled sites
Please use the thread above for discussing adding a single button back. Posts doing that on this thread are off-topic.
On my tablet, tapping the reactions on the left sometimes opens the reaction selector, but it doesn’t work. I think I would expect it not to appear at all, because there is already the button on the right.
And I have the impression this impacts where you land on a profile after using the usercard. On a short first post in a topic there is no difference; both the avatar of the poster and the avatars in the reaction list show the usercard, which takes you to the top of the profile on click. But on a post later in the topic, using the poster’s avatar still takes you to the top of the profile, but from the list of reactions, you land at the bottom.
I might be wrong but I think I have experienced this behavior before the change. 
I don’t think it is related to this feature, we haven’t done anything special with user cards in this update. Maybe worth a separate bug topic.
I thought it might be caused by the fact that the modal showing the reactions list doesn’t disappear. It’s still there when I am at the profile. Maybe if it wasn’t, I would see the top as usual. I think there was a similar issue with a different modal before, but I wasn’t able to find it.
Is it expected that the list is still visible when I am no longer looking at the topic but at a user’s profile?
This is strange, I can’t repro either of these issues (scroll position) or menu still open.
Maybe it happens only on tablets?
Or touch devices?
