Reactions are here - update from MNHQ

[KatyMumsnet]

We’ve listened to your feedback! While many of you have enjoyed the ‘Thanks’ button, you also told us that you'd love more ways to express your feelings on the site.

Starting today, you now have the choice of four reactions:
‘Agree’, ‘Love’, ‘Funny’, and ‘Thanks’.

Here’s how it works:

• Select the ‘React’ button underneath the OP or reply.
• Choose the reaction that reflects how you feel about the post.
• Reactions are private and are only visible to the post owner.
• You can select one reaction per post.

We hope this gives you even more ways to engage with posts and share how you feel.

Let us know your thoughts or any questions in the comments below!

I agree, why would anyone object to a feature that not using has no negative impact on how you use the website?

I would like one that shows sorrow/support for the poster. There are so many sad threads and none of the agree/thanks/love it is appropriate.

Vile is a very strong reaction, the posts from mnhq make it quite clear that you can see who is reacting, what makes you think you can't see it?

Oh no! Making emojis visible on the screen turns the post unreadable. I don't mind not being able to read the posts of people who insist on using them, but not being able to read my own posts in an ongoing discussion would be horrible.

Has MN heard of dyslexia? I can manage words just fine nowadays, but coloured blobs make my eyes go funny.

Will there be an option in settings to make them permanently invisible?

You couldn't see who had reacted earlier. MNHQ have answered that query and now you can. We need a HTH reaction 😂

Yes, that is by far the most important reaction that I would like to see, and the 'love' graphic just doesn't cut it.
That is mostly how [ t h a n k s ] (without the spaces) used to be used. As a little gesture of having heard someone's sadness/difficulties and wanting to express support (and also reciprocally as a thank-you gesture for the expression of support).

A few of us are BETA testing the new talk app right now and you can do Thanks on it. Edit. Access trending threads etc. it’s quite good but crashes a lot

Vile is a very strong reaction, the posts from mnhq make it quite clear that you can see who is reacting, what makes you think you can't see it?

If it stops me reading my own posts on MN I am entitled to find it vile. It is excluding me. That is vile.

Because people just like to moan for the sake of it.

Which one is thanks and which one is agree? Handclap and thumbs up could both be used for agree.

So do you never use emojis? Because you’re grown up?

Agreed

Why does a react button stop you reading your posts?

Genuine question - how old are you? My grandma is 71 and she’d be able to figure out which icon is which.

The hand clapping is ‘thanks.’ The thumbs up is ‘agree.’ The laughing face is very obviously ‘funny’ and the heart is obviously ‘love.’ You can also click on them and it’ll tell you which is which after you’ve pressed it…

I’m still on the original mumsnet emojis

Coloured blobs in posts prevent me from reading them with any degree of comfort. I can and do avoid posts by other people who use them. Not being able to read my own posts would limit the value of the site for me.

Adding coloured emojis reduces the accessibility of the site. Reducing accessibility is usually seen as a bad thing.

The comments are so dramatic, my God. You’d think you can no longer use the website anymore

The laughing one is the best one. Some posts on MN do make me laugh.

I will not be able to use the website as I have been used to. Do you sneer at people confined to wheelchairs as well, or is it just eyesight handicaps that you find hilarious?

I have to see everyone who thinks it's a good idea to send me a frog? What a horrid thought.

Me too. Do you remember how people used to throw around the biscuit emoticon to express contempt? Everyone knew how nastily passive-aggressive that convention was. So they often posted "Here, have my very first " -- to imply they weren't normally so snide but had been driven to it by the other poster's stupidity/wickedness.
Emoticons tend to drive us towards harsh pantomime reactions. And now that MN has become so unbelievably hostile it would be better not to encourage their use via this new device

No, and yes.

Which given the post yours was immediately below, is funny in a sort of sick way.

I live for the applause, applause, applause

<twerks vigorously>

can someone please react to this post so I can see what it looks like? Thanks. (I liked thanks). Just curious.

After all this we definitely need the middle finger