# Support multiple-reactions per post (Retort style)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-multiple-reactions-per-post-retort-style/235064
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** reactions
**Created:** [August 3, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-multiple-reactions-per-post-retort-style/235064 "2022-08-03T23:46:45Z")
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### Author: ![MentalNomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mentalnomad/32/95159_2.png) [@MentalNomad](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MentalNomad)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-multiple-reactions-per-post-retort-style/235064/30 "2023-12-25T17:23:15Z")

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> [@Jagster](#):
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> Multiple reactions there where reactions are shown has zero value for delivering feelings. And thas why all of platforms (that I know) limit given reaction to one.

Given that there are actually multiple other platforms where this feature exists and is used, it seems that many disagree with your claim about what has been “shown.”

> [@Jagster](#):
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> What would you guess, in generally: shall more users for forums come from facebook or slack background 😉

> [@Jagster](#):
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> But the reality is Slack users are small minority. That’s why default, and if a system can’t expand, offered solution, must follow needs and habits of majority.

Facebook, Insta, TikTok, Pinterest, Twitter… these are all single-site socials. None of us can do our own Facebook; the scale is part of what makes it what it is. But that’s not the niche occupied by a forum software like Discourse.

Discourse is a platform for people to set up their own spaces. It’s not like Facebook, it’s like Slack. And it’s like Discord. _Both of which allow multiple reactions,_ and the feature is well-used.

Discord is the fastest-growing in the category, _ **by far** _. So much so, that there have been active debates about how to stem the tide of people abandoning forums for Discord, including here on Meta:

> [@Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-stop-closing-forums-and-moving-people-to-discord/203845):
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> [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28549739](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28549739) Huge discussion on Hacker News, with discourse mentioned lot of times. With the noble goal of discourse and COVID pandemic discourse can play a bigger role in this world. There have been posts directly from founders asking for what can be improved, the above discussion has a decent number of suggestions/complaints one of them being having to reload on new topic.

The addition of Chat on Discourse is a response to one aspect of Discord/Slack that was missing on Discourse… using multiple emoji is another.

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Tl;dr: I’m not saying Discourse _ **must** _ implement this or lose the great war… I just think the “it’s useless and nobody does it” argument doesn’t hold up and should not be part of the decision-making process.

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