comment reactions

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comment reactions are a feature of several silos that allow users to tap a hollow heart or other affordance next to comments on posts to like a specific comment or sometimes react with a limited set of reacji.

Silo Examples

Facebook

Facebook was perhaps the first to provide the ability for people to like (πŸ‘πŸ») comments displayed on posts, eventually expanding to allow a specific set of reacji.

GitHub

GitHub has allowed users to react to comments on issues and pull requests for quite some time with a limited set of reacji that they expanded a bit over time.

Instagram

Instagram implemented the ability to like (❀️) comments on posts sometime after ~2019.

Strava

Strava experimented a bit with various icons and settled on an initially empty heart (β™‘) similar to Instagram as an affordance which turns into a deep red orange heart (🧑) the same color as the Strava logo, since 2022-07. Unlike other silos, once "liked" you cannot unlike a comment.

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