# Show usernames in Reacted popover

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-usernames-in-reacted-popover/278485>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** reactions\
**Created:** [September 10, 2023, 4:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-usernames-in-reacted-popover/278485 "2023-09-10T16:58:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![\_diondiondion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/_diondiondion/32/200719_2.png) [@\_diondiondion](https://meta.discourse.org/u/_diondiondion)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 7:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-usernames-in-reacted-popover/278485/3 "2023-09-10T19:02:51Z")

</div>

> [@Firepup650](#):
>
> Does that fulfill your need here?

Thanks, but no. At least to me, the whole point of the popover is to get a quick overview of the reactions given. I don’t want to have to click into each user’s card to find out their name. Opening the card also feels fairly slow due to the extra loading time.

I have to admit that I forgot that the pre-reactions “fold out” UI to show who liked a post _also_ only showed avatars by default. I created [a plugin](https://github.com/diondiondion/discourse-likes-as-usernames) for my forum to change that, but forgot that I did, and thought that the changed design was the default! 🙈 So the whole thing looked more like a regression to me than it really was.

In any case, thanks for moving this to its own thread. It can remain as a plea to reconsider showing _only_ avatars in places where you really want to read names.

The poll results UI has a similar issue.

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-usernames-in-reacted-popover/278485)._