# Testing Boosts on Meta

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-boosts-on-meta/399835
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**Created:** [April 3, 2026, 9:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-boosts-on-meta/399835 "2026-04-03T09:09:47Z")
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#### Post date: [April 4, 2026, 8:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-boosts-on-meta/399835/56 "2026-04-04T20:53:39Z")

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> [@fuse](#):
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> boosts and reactions are redundant. 🤷🏻‍♂️

In the current state, yes, hence:

> [@j.jaffeux](#):
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> The idea is obviously not to have everything at once. Mid/Long term we will most likely unify boosts/reactions/likes so a community can decide to pick one of them depending on their requirements/size/kind/…

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Toyed with Gemini and let it imagine prototypes of less cluttered boosts:

[https://gemini.google.com/share/66c6a9f23341](https://gemini.google.com/share/66c6a9f23341) (open on desktop) — a bit lazy to make a gif for each from my crappy laptop

1. Show a “XX more boosts” and click to show
2. Boosts are on a single line, horizontally scrollable/swipable
3. After X boosts show in their entirety, a list of stacked avatars with their message visible on avatar hover
4. Stack boosts by reaction type (if tied to reaction emojis), ideally ordered from the most used reaction emoji to the least used

Personally I’m not truly a fan of those propositions, but I think the issue is hard to address.

And probably the team, who possesses real brains of real humans, already has great ideas on how to minimize potential boosts clutters 😛

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