# Changes to which reactions 👍 are counted as likes ❤

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/changes-to-which-reactions-are-counted-as-likes/294696
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** reactions
**Created:** [February 13, 2024, 5:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changes-to-which-reactions-are-counted-as-likes/294696 "2024-02-13T05:16:57Z")
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### Author: ![martin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/martin/32/491371_2.png) [@martin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/martin)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2024, 4:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changes-to-which-reactions-are-counted-as-likes/294696/53 "2024-05-16T04:00:42Z")

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### Announcement 🚀

I would like to announce that we are going to start rolling out the `discourse_reactions_like_sync_enabled` setting to all of our hosted sites, setting it to `true`, and setting it to default `true` for new sites.

What this means is that historical reactions will have a Like record created for them. On some sites that haven’t used reactions this may be a very small amount, on other sites this may be to the tune of tens of thousands of records.

This will influence the Top and Hot pages on your forum, and will likely result in more Badges being issued, because there are many of them based on Likes.

If you **do not** want reactions counted as likes, both new ones and historical ones, you must add them to the `discourse_reactions_excluded_from_like` site setting. By default only 👎 is excluded.

I am confident in our changes, but please feel free to report any issues here as we go through this rollout.

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> [@martin](#):
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> […] usually when you’ve reacted and it’s also counted as a like, we only show the reaction on the post. Now you’ve disabled that reaction, it’s showing both. Will see what I can do for this 👍

I was finally able to merge a fix for this issue today at [FIX: Reactions doubled up as like if no longer enabled by martin-brennan · Pull Request #289 · discourse/discourse-reactions · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-reactions/pull/289)

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