Reactions are here - update from MNHQ

Not the point of the thread (although I did prefer the thanks and don’t think I’ll be using the react ones), but has the ‘add post’ button always been on each individual post? It seems to make it a lot more likely that people will post without reading the rest of the thread, which is super annoying especially when there’s been updates since. Cancel the cheque!

I can't remember how to get the Santa's hat version of MN emoticons. I thought you put an 'f' (for 'festive') in front of the word , but that isn't working for me. And weren't there halloween versions, which you got by adding 'h'? Or did I dream that?

As for getting upset about something so trivial as a 'react' update, I agree that is completely daft, but I think most posters are just shooting the breeze. Like any other thread, this a thread on a chat site. Chatters gonna chat.

I agree with @DeanElderberry
I'm actually finding this change upsetting.
Because of my mental health issues it's ATM making me feel very excluded and my intention is to log out of my account and not post again.

Me too. I refuse to use non MN ones on MN.

@AngelontopoftheTree yes I can see who reacted now. Can't reciprocate because I'm on the app and have to go on mobile to check how I'm doing in the popularity contest 😜

😂

They do appear now. That's part of the change.

Wasn’t that the reason for the MN original emojis? Apologies as I can’t remember details but wasn’t it related to an issue with screen readers not being able to “read” them. Mind you, this was years ago, tech has moved on I suppose.

This. I very much agree.

I also feel it encourages lurkers, not posters which is not what MNHQ want? I don’t see them on the app but got an email to say I had lots of thanks emojis to one of my posts, many more than comments. Of course I appreciate it, I’m not ungrateful.And I understand people find it quicker to press a button than type a word, but isn’t that the whole point of Mumsnet? I want to say “discourse”, but it sounds a bit wanky.

Ignoring decades worth of advice on how to make sites accessible to users - in other words, deliberately choosing to discriminate against and restrict access for people who can't cope with the interference caused by coloured visual clutter, is evil.

Accessibility is a serious issue, whether it is letting people read text or letting people in wheelchairs into buildings.

I totally agree! And why can’t people just agree openly instead of effectively PMing a little picture? I would think if you’re not robust enough to agree with someone openly for fear of “backlash”, you’re not robust enough for MN (and def not AIBU!) As PP said, personal attacks are deleted so people shouldn’t feel afraid to express their views. I feel we should be encouraging openness (is that a noun?) and free speech, and the freedom to challenge free speech if we disagree. We should be encouraging people (especially women) to be unafraid and to stand up and be counted.

Evil? Bit OTT

They don't appear unless you hover over the 'react' button!

Your wish is my command. I put a 😆

Sorry!! I Misquoted - apologies!

If we can't opt out, can we have the option of seeing the reaction as a word (in the same colour as the rest of the text) not as a coloured image, Since MN knows what the blobs are meant to mean, a simple direct translation to that word should be straightforward.

But coloured blobs appearing without any choice are downright evil.

I thought the argument about imposing coloured emojis on message board users who need clarity and accessibility had been fought and won about 20 years ago - amazed to see it surfacing again now.

Ah ha, yes it's the clapping emoji. Ta muchly!

They’re the wrong emojis for MN culture. It should be

thanks
agree
love - like sympathy or hugs
funny

This is a you problem, assigning intent to a reaction.
Maybe someone was testing out the reactions....

@saraclara yes - I sent a text message to my daughter who disagreed
with what I said and was forthright about it.
Then followed it up with the clapping hands.
I saw this for what it was, an insolent gesture.
Obviously I dealt with it as a mother.

However if I made an innocuous comment say and received clapping hands
from someone purporting to be my equal on here, I would not be best pleased
and would say so. Juvenile FB stuff is correct.
We can indeed see who has sent one of these ghastly emojis - Ive sent a couple myself just now, but you know, we say, if it works don’t fix it.

What I dread is remark and feedback degenerating into a DM type quagmire.

I agree.

Presumably.
Thanks.

The only deleted one I can see is one that clearly called the OP an arsehole when he was the won who was assaulted. Presumably deleted for classic victim blaming.

@KatyMumsnet please please please give me an easy way to not see these. I'm horrified to see that even 'thanks' left on the old system now appear as bright blue blobs. Let those of us who can't cope with that, opt out of getting them (and of seeing the old ones).