Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by wumpus on Friday June 22, 2018 @03:29PM
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Having used slack at a business, emoji reactions to comments are an extremely valuable business feature -- they allow people to react without having to make a full-sized comment, which helps keep conversations compact.
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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by u801e on Saturday June 23, 2018 @03:13PM
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> emoji reactions to comments are an extremely valuable business feature
How is it better than just having upvotes and downvotes like what's done on websites like HN, reddit, and Slashdot? Personally, I don't see much value when seeing 5 different reaction emojis right under a comment I post in a Slack channel.
Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by sincerely on Friday June 22, 2018 @03:36PM
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for instance: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/30/metoo/
Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by jwilk on Friday June 22, 2018 @04:36PM
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There is nothing about emoji in this article.
Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by djhworld on Saturday June 23, 2018 @04:11AM
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I wish email had this feature. Sometimes I might ask someone to do something, and when they reply like "Done", it would be nice to just react with a thumbs up or something rather than continuing the chain of emails with a "Thank you" etc
Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by wikibob on Saturday June 23, 2018 @03:33PM
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Surprisingly, Office 365 Exchange + Outlook has this now.
https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/like-an-email-messa...
Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by greglindahl on Friday June 22, 2018 @04:49PM
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The article is very relevant, it's using "reactions" instead of a full "me too" comment or email.
Slack just happens to express reactions using emoji.