I have installed two new plugins on MEW as an experiment. The main one is “Retort” — a plugin that lets you react to a post with any emoji like in Discord or Slack.
However, just like in Discord and Slack, you don’t get notifications when someone reacts to your post. So it does not replace the “heart” button.
Hopefully this will be useful as a way for people to express more than a “like” or “fav” with the heart button.
If you want to thank someone, for example, you would hit the heart button and select the thanks emoji, like so:
(I’ve also added some custom styling to our themes so the reactions look a little more like Slack’s. And I’ve added an animation for when you. click on an existing reaction, because why not )
The minimum number of chracters for a response has also been lowered to 5.
With the new reactions, maybe we don’t need 5-character responses, but the idea is to give y’all the freedom to react/respond however you see fit and see what works.
Drat. There are a few problems on mobile — reactions are slightly misaligned and when there are too many it pushes the important controls off the right side of the screen and you can’t get to them.
Will have to look at fixing that.
Also: if someone comes up with a prettier style for the buttons, please send me the CSS.
I think I’d prefer to have an outline of some kind to indicate that the reaction is not part of the post, and that it is clickable. But yeah, it could look cool if the colours are closer to the theme background colours.
Good idea. Will see what the grey looks like. Getting the colours for the light theme is easy. The dark theme’s CSS is trickier, uses semi-transparent overlays and stuff so the final colour isn’t necessarily what’s in the stylesheet.
Also: I can’t recolour the emoji themselves (AFAIK). Only the button background and border.
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