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!

Just wondering if this is related.... I noticed earlier today (before I knew about the reactions button) that See Next and See All seemed much closer to each other than yesterday. I thought I was imagining it, or that I was misremembering.... but is it related to these new reactions, as they push everything over slightly?

How do people actually use MN? On a computer? My app has none of these features, I can't vote etc

I agree with this post and for everyone else to see I agree I have to quote it. I’d rather just publicly agree.

Still on a phone but using browser instead of an app. I gave up on the mn app years ago, although it might be better than it was.

Why has Mumsnet turned into LinkedIn?

It takes up entire pages of my "Notifications" thread telling me that "1 user has reacted to your post on x thread", and since you can only open each thread once before notifications stops giving you information about it, it is in fact counterproductive, because I am not going to go through the whole of every thread to see which of my posts on it anyone has reacted to. It's a waste of time and effort, and so is what someone has gloriously christened the "clown show".

That’s why it would be better if they were visible on the post

Yes the notifications are VERY annoying. I’m not actually interested in reactions, im interested in new posts and opinions. It’ll change how people post - they will post for likes or not bother with what they think people don’t like. It’s human nature.

You can turn off the notifications for them. I don't get any.

The trouble with that is that people would compete for likes. And twerps would have people they liked and always applauded performatively.

I think we got along very nicely without any of this, the "thanks" button included – and if I wanted to say thank you to someone, or agree with a particular post, well, rather than clicking on a button for a cheap, effortless and essentially brainless grunt of a comment I could always write the words "I agree" or "thank you" or "that's really interesting" in a reply.

That would be a help. How? (Desktop computer.)

Edited to add: found it. Thank you.

I never used the thanks button. Anyone who thanks me does appear in my email

That laughing emoji looks deranged

This doesn't work on my phone

It’s handy for the Wordle thread and things like that rather than thanking everyone on the thread

You allowed thanks to your email? I hope this is ultimate troll.

The range seems quite narrow.

I would like to commiserate, or show empathy please.

Also to disagree.

MN sends the email unless you say you don’t want them 😂

I want an angry one

Bloody hell. I must have clicked on something merciful.

What if you click the wrong one by mistake? You can't amend it.

You can. Or take it away entirely

I disagree. The writer may not intend to be funny, but the words used could may well amuse the reader. I’d always see it as a positive in a I’m glad I brightened your day, kind of a way.

All the emojis are positive ones. That is a good thing. If somebody is the sort of person who uses such things aggressively, then of course they will see and perceive aggression in others, even when there is none.

The one thing I would hate to see is a thumbs down, or any other expression of negativity. If a reader wants to object to or dislikes a post, then use your words to reply. The emojis we’ve been given are good, positive ones.

As some others have said, I’d like to see another reaction to show sympathy/empathy - a hug, maybe?

Having said all that, I think things are being made unnecessarily complicated. I am in the camp of ‘meh, whatever’. The simple ‘thanks’ was enough to give thanks/I agree/support/encouragement.

I thought the previous thanks button was perfect as it covered everything.
If someone was funny, ironic, helpful or I just agreed, especially if it went against the tide. I would also use it to acknowledge a sad post, to say I read and I feel for you.

Just please never make a thanks button public as some want.
A money saving forum was one of the first and they had public thanks buttons back then.
Society twenty years ago was far more polite than now but it brought out some horrible traits in posters.
Begging for thanks and coming back on to chastise a poster for not thanking them were just two.

I like the change. I often had similar real life reactions to things I read and it feels quite nice to share them with the poster in the right spirit.