Hi everyone! In our community ( https://community.ankihub.net/ ), we used to be able to hold down on the like button on mobile/IOS and choose reactions on posts/comments in a thread, like a heart or thumbs up or thumbs down. A year ago, after an update (I believe), we lost the ability to select reac…

Hello :waving_hand: The issue is that the Discourse Jira plugin adds position: relative to .post-controls .actions. assets/stylesheets/common/discourse-jira.scss 56e43f6ab .post-controls { .actions { position: relative; …

Are you able to repro here? Can you test on your site in safe mode ?

I tried it on this website, I can use reactions. [IMG_1251] I entered safe mode for our community and the same issue persists unfortunately. I cannot hold down on the like button and select reactions

[image] Ahmed7: I entered safe mode for our community and the same issue persists unfortunately Which of the checkboxes for safe mode did you enable? I am asking because reactions are a plugin too, and I sometimes forget to disable the checkbox for plugins when I want to test a plugin in safe…

I tried disabling all (checked all 3 boxes) first and it still was occurring. I also tried just checking the first 2 boxes and same thing Is there another combination I should try?

What Discourse version are you running? Also, if you disable and reenable the plugin, does the issue still persist? Thanks.

We are currently on version 3.6.0.beta2-latest [image] NateDhaliwal: Also, if you disable and reenable the plugin, does the issue still persist? I’ll try this and let you know!

I just tried disabling and re-enabling the plugin, still same thing :frowning: Is this a known issue on the beta version? “3.6.0.beta2-latest” The thing is we have always updated over the past year to the latest version and it has never resolved These are the plugin settings if that is helpful […

Here’s what I found after some testing on the forum with a resized viewport to simulate mobile and DevTools: the reactions popup is definitely there. The element shows up and goes away as expected when hovering and removing the cursor. But for some reason, it does not appear on-screen. Or at least i…

Haha that’s so weird. I checked and yes I can see the super faint line when holding on the reactions. Is this a bug then? Any way to fix this/reverse it?

Unable to use reactions on IOS/Mobile

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Falco (Falco) October 28, 2025, 1:20pm 9

If it works here but not on your community, you should ask for the admins there to update their instance.

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Unable to use reactions on IOS/Mobile

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