I am kind of open to this, in other cases like flagging which is also a post action this makes total sense, cause alerting an external system when a post is flagged is super useful.
I have some concerns around load this can generate though cause there can be tons of likes.
I’m thinking that since webhooks on post/topics creations are passing a lot of data very often without that much impact on performance, there shouldn’t be that much issues with likes. They can happen as often as new posts and the payload is going to be smaller (post id, user id, like/unlike action, total likes).
But I could be totally wrong about it. I’ve not explored Discourse’s source much.
I’m with Kara and am just looking into this. We track engagement stats in another system, and currently import forum activity on a monthly basis. Using a webhook for this would obviously speed things along for us.
Has a post_liked webhook ever been made available?
It’s been a while already and we are a big team so I don’t remember the exact solution. I believe that a custom webhook was developed by a member of our team.