New community and kudos

stephenpperry

Looks like the new community platform has had a really positive impact on the amount of kudos being given ( through those reactions). I think that’s really great! I love the way we can encourage each other on here and having more ways to react to a post is great. I wonder if it’s made a positive increase across the website, or if people are just being nicer on my posts. Have you seen an increase in reactions and kudos on your since the change?

keithctaylor

stephenpperry yes, I've seen more. But I expect that's because reactions offer people more ways to express thanks.

yvonnearmstrong

stephenpperry

I think it's lovely to give kudos to people as a nice gesture👍and I do think the new platform is much better

thanks Stephen
Yvonne

richybhoy36

stephenpperry Hi there yup I think it's a better way to show your appreciation as there's more options to chose from !

bobrobinson

stephenpperry
Hiya.
Yep i like the reactions better than the old kudos. And yes i have noticed the increase in gaffers rewarding reactions . Its great to see.
All the best Bob 😄

sillygilly21

stephenpperry It's all so much friendlier. Like a real community.

mrbond007

stephenpperry
It's a better feature for sure

jfh

stephenpperry

Didnt see any nasty posts before so haven’t noticed a difference.

stephenpperry

keithctaylor it definitely could be because of that. I’m loving it even more though. It feels much more personal and has cheered me up quite a few times when I’ve been having a bad day. Community love is the greatest!

davkw

yvonnearmstrong I don't get it ... What exactly is the NEW PLATFORM? THE DAFT STUPID EMOTICONS?

mandy_ede

I like the way contributers can see what type of reaction they're getting

stephenpperry

mandy_ede me too! Such a good point!

johnrooney80

I like the reaction kudo system, wish we could still post in colour though, as Block Dark Text is boring 👋
See wottah Mean Jean

keithctaylor

johnrooney80
Hey John, don't feel BLUE.
You can do it once you have RED the instructions

I don't know if it's anywhere on giffgaff. But I searched for Flarum text colour.
Thanks for prompting me to take a look. Because I now realise there's a lot more to this simple editor than meets the eye 👍️

sally2000

johnrooney80
Agree with you totally.👌

keithctaylor

See https://bbcode.org/examples/?id=6 for how to do this.

johnrooney80

Thanks loads keithctaylor
I'll need pen + pad to jot down codes!

stephenpperry

bobrobinson it’s great isn’t it! I wonder if they’ll keep adding more!

bobrobinson

stephenpperry

stephenpperry bobrobinson it’s great isn’t it! I wonder if they’ll keep adding more!

Hiya. I hope so as i think we need a sad face one and maybe an applaud one. We will wait and see.
All the best Bob. 😄

jesi23

stephenpperry I wonder if they’ll keep adding more!

I think for the moment they are just keeping to the six: we started with more (positive and negative including a bunny rabbit and a tomato) on the initial preview site in August, and it was whittled down to the six varied reactions, none deemed as ‘negative’ but including a range of emotions for different situations. It does seem to encourage more responses, doesn’t it?

We’re on Preview Site mark 2 (started beginning of October) if any one else wants to see what is being worked on. 🤡

keithctaylor

bobrobinson my sad face reaction was just a joke. Cos it's always a pleasure to read your comments 👏

keithctaylor

bobrobinson
Also, I just checked with that Interweb thingy and according to https://discuss.flarum.org/d/6542-reactions-by-reflar
Reactions are easy to customise by the admin. So I guess it's a matter of reaching a concensus on what is going to be useful.

bobrobinson

keithctaylor

keithctaylor my sad face reaction was just a joke. Cos it's always a pleasure to read your comments 👏

Awww thankyou for your kind words. Why i think we need a sad face one is there is some posts that are sad and i think a sad face at the end of a post will show how you feel for the op.
All the best Bob

keithctaylor

bobrobinson Why i think we need a sad face one is there is some posts that are sad and i think a sad face at the end of a post will show how you feel for the op.

But I thought that was what the one between the thumb and the heart is for??

bobrobinson

keithctaylor

keithctaylor But I thought that was what the one between the thumb and the heart is for??

No thas a sticking out your tonge award. ( i think a sort of told you so thing ) 😆
All the best Bob