Displaying "Likes" more prominently

[littke (Jonatan Littke)]

Hey.

We use Discourse at Lookback, as an internal forum.

We use Likes to support and promote one another’s ideas and posts.

As such, a Like is an important component of the communication happening: it’s just as valuable as someone replying “I agree with this.” or “Sounds great” or “Let’s do it”.

Problem

The Likes often go unnoticed, because:

• The Likes don’t make threads appear unread
• The Likes aren’t taking up a lot of visual impact (space & color)

Proposed solution

• Left-align likes at the footer of each post
• Add a colored heart for posts that have likes, no color for posts that don’t
• Potentially display avatars right away (rather than on expansion)

You know your design constraints best, so this proposed solution is just a very quick recommendation.

Thanks!

[Falco (Rafael dos Santos Silva)]

Did you see this:

Discourse Voting

This plugin is the result of the spec put together by @erlend_sh. It gives you the ability to vote on topics in a specified category. To enable it, edit any category, look on the settings tab for the “Allow users to vote on topics in this category” checkbox: [image] Once enabled, the topics in that category can be voted on with the count of votes added next to the topic title. [image] The vote count is also included next to the title when scrolled. [image] To make it easier to see vote c…

[Mittineague]

The icons can be easily styled using CSS

Post icons and usability

I’m not so sure about showing the Likers by default, it could get a bit “noisy”

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Add a colored heart for posts that have likes, no color for posts that don’t

Just a clarification, right now the heart is colored if you personally liked the post. So the color signifies “I liked this one”.