You can now seemingly only use the “heart” reaction. While that might be fine, I notice that some people are now shown as having liked a post multiple times, an example in this post . I had given it a thumbs down and received 2 in return, all are gone, while some of those seem to have been merged int…

Indeed they broke it for CDN users and it was fixed in a Discourse update yesterday :sob:

Maybe @jonah can explain the new changes? I personally don’t like the new “like bar” I liked the older one better. And can I have my :popcorn: back please also :melting_face: would be nice.

Probably just some unexpected update just as last time with the „Share on X“ Button? Hopefully…

Personally I like the change. I’ve always felt reactions on forums should be used as a way to express agreement with a message that contains the things you wanted to say. Negative reactions don’t really serve a purpose in my eyes as we can’t know your reasons for disagreeing. If you make a post and …

Personally I disagree as I think some nonstandard reactions can function beyond a simple “like”. For example, I often use the “thumbs up” reaction to signal an acknowledgement, potentially an agreement with a statement, but nothing as strong as the heart/like reaction. Further, even if I did agree …

Is it just me or has the ability to follow users been removed too? If I’m not missing something and it is gone for everyone I’m going to lean towards these changes being unintentional like @SYST3M_D3STR0YER mentioned. [image] SYST3M_D3STR0YER: Probably just some unexpected update Hopefully s…

Haha the button literally is still there but if you‘d click it you‘d get a 404/403 :rofl: So yeah these three things really point to the fact that it is unintentional.

I think they are important as the YouTube dislike button. It helps me to double check what I’m reading in case I get fooled by something that sounds plausible enough for me. Apart from negative reactions, I don’t usually post because sometimes what I wanna say it’s not valuable enough or it doesn’t …

Hopefully we won’t lose any of the reactions when they are restored.

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Unrelated to reactions, but seemingly related to these newer Discourse changes, I’m also currently unable to view votes in Site Development > Tool Suggestions which suggests (haha) that some if not all of these changes are unintended.

Topic		Replies	Views
Allow to remove or replace old reactions Meta discourse	18	382	March 11, 2026
Add more reactions Meta discourse	5	529	May 30, 2024
Remove emoji reactions Meta discourse	41	1874	August 26, 2025
Possible to move "x Reactions" to benefit guests / logged out users? Meta discourse	0	74	November 12, 2025
Is this normal? Meta discourse	2	414	July 6, 2025

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