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 found that too, it seems to tell you how many there are on all your posts on that particular thread, not your individual posts within it. Unless you only posted the OP and nothing else, it wasn't particularly helpful.

Could they not at least have been MN emojis?

I agree with this.

Sent you a reaction @EmeraldRoulette

I like them - 'thanks' didn't always feel like an accurate reaction; also like that the reactions you've received are more visible now on your posts.

Only feedback - is there any reason why we can't give more than one reaction to a post?

I thought hand clap 👏 is for Thanks, and thumbs up 👍 is for agree...... are we all going to be using them differently?

@janejeffer I've "thanked" you on this thread - can you see it?

Ooh I didn’t realise it was meant to be a restrained hand squeeze or head nod!
I like the sound of that!

Tbh, I never quite understood if thanks meant “literally” thanks, or if it meant “like”, so I hesitated to use it.

I think that was the fundamental problem with it really.

I’d use thanks if op or another pp addressed me personally saying “you hit the nail on the head thanks for the advice” or something like that, but I wouldn’t use it if a pp just happened to write something I very much agreed with, because to me it would feel a bit awkward saying thank you for something that was addressed to everyone. Even though I wanted to ifyswim!

But I over-think these things massively 😄😬😬

You are the one moaning. People are expressing their opinions on a thread about emojis

I’d love to know the breakdown on the length of time MNers have been MNers, and the feedback answers (if that makes sense!)

As a very long term MNer, I’ll be honest and my first thought after reading (and I’m genuinely sorry @KatyMumsnet, this really isn’t meant as a personal attack on you ) I read “we’ve listened to your feedback…you want more emojis to express your feelings” and my first thought is

oh fuck off

Mind you, I’m with @Fabulouslyunfabulous in that I think using any emoji other than MN supplied ones, is BU And it took me ages to stop using Mumsnet Classic layout on my desktop PS, so I accept I’m just an old school dinosaur. Meh. Fuck it.

(and the Beta app is still shit and you can’t even see half the options so…)

I’m in my 40s, I work in UX design and I don’t think it’s obvious that clapping means thanks.

Not a fan of this at all.

Thanks was good. It was a single click, it did the job, and had very little potential for using it to be mean to people.

I’d love to know the breakdown on the length of time MNers have been MNers, and the feedback answers (if that makes sense!)

Been here about nine years now and I like them.

About 10 for me I think and I like them too.

There you go, already had a "bitchy giggler" emoji on a post. Point proven

Just the thanks was good. No issues with that.

I don't think that's particularly bitchy.

Thanks to everyone who reacted to my post 😊

This. I don’t see this as an improvement.

I disagree. Laughing at a post the poster didn't intend to be funny is bitchy. You see it on Facebook a lot.

Unsure. I felt thanks didn't fit many situations, just thanking someone for replying to my query. The laugh emoji is nice to show you've appreciated someone's humour, but as a pp mentioned it can be misused in the FB sense. The thumbs up, yeah time saving.
Glad there isn't an angry as the trolls will mine those. I'm not enthusiastic and upbeat enough for the clap (probably could have phrased that better).
We shall see.

I don't object to the idea of different reactions in principle but I think the laughing one is a bad idea. People will be using it mockingly, especially given how polarised discussion on MN can get. Using it to indicate that they think someone's political or religious view is laughable, for instance, or that they don't believe someone's anecdote. I think it'll be detrimental to the tone of the site.

I agree

Maybe just a '✔' for agree would have been enough as well as the thanks.

The others will make the site too facebooky

But if people want to do that, they can already quote and post a 😂emoji, which is public.

I like the heart ❤️ button as well, however, not one disagreement emoji!
Noticed in another thread, comments that didn't express direct support to the OP or take their side got deleted.
(A guy whose girlfriend got physical under influence).