Add reactions to question & answer

[fenbox]

Summary

We are thinking about adding a reaction feature to:

1. Increase interaction among users
2. Reduce meaningless comments.

This is because the community's voting system has reputation thresholds and limited usage scenarios. Reactions will not affect reputation.

Description

Task 1

• Change "Add a comment" button style, like btn-light with small size and pill style

Task 2

• Add reactions

Rules

• All actived user can add reaction, like github issue.
• Reaction include:
  • Emoji: heart, smile, frown
  • Response count: Users who added on that emoji
• When moving to an existing reaction, show which people clicked on that emoji, display the first 5 users and "{{n}} more..." for the rest.
• When clicking on an existing emoji, that emoji +1.
• Clicking on the + shows available emojis to choose from, and selecting one will increase that reaction count by 1.
• No need for system notifications.
• Reaction does not affect reputation.

Design files

• Figma
  • Question detail
  • Reaction status
• CoDesign, PWD: 7XXV

[hgaol]

Hi @fenbox , I'd like to try this task, thx!

[fenbox]

@hgaol Great, I will add more details for development.

[hgaol]

About the backend logic, I saw there's meta table and the object_id column could represent both answer and question. Is it suitable for such scenario? e.g. key is object.reaction.count, and value is something like {"heart": 1, "smile": 1, "frown": 1}.

Another option is add additional columns in question and answer tables with these 3 columns, while I don't think altering table is a good thing and it looks little redundant.

Pls let me know if any comment or suggestion, thx! @LinkinStars

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nvm, I forgot it also should show the names. Let me take a look at the latest designs and find if any question.

[fenbox]

Hi @fenbox , I'd like to try this task, thx!

@hgaol I've updated the details and links to the designs. Please let me know if you have any questions.

[hgaol]

Hi @LinkinStars , below is my thought in database design. Pls let me know if any comment or suggestion. thx!

About the backend logic, I saw there's meta table and the object_id column could represent both answer and question. Is it suitable for such scenario? e.g. key is object.react.summary, and value is something like {"heart": [1,2,3], "smile": [3,4,5], "frown": [5,6,7]}. Here the int array represents the user ids reacted to this emoji.

[LinkinStars]

Hi @LinkinStars , below is my thought in database design. Pls let me know if any comment or suggestion. thx!

About the backend logic, I saw there's meta table and the object_id column could represent both answer and question. Is it suitable for such scenario? e.g. key is object.react.summary, and value is something like {"heart": [1,2,3], "smile": [3,4,5], "frown": [5,6,7]}. Here the int array represents the user ids reacted to this emoji.

@hgaol It's great. The meta table is used to hold other data related to the object. It is appropriate to use it here.

[hgaol]

Hi @fenbox , should it support i18n? e.g. what the Chinese version should be for smile, heart and frown?

[fenbox]

Hi @fenbox , should it support i18n? e.g. what the Chinese version should be for smile, heart and frown?

Yes.

simle -> 笑脸
heart -> 爱心
frown -> 难过