New "Like" function?

General
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I noticed that in the “Stats” page of a blog, under “Top 25 posts” you can now see a column of LIKES right next to TOTAL VIEWS.

Is this a new function? and how can one like a blog post?

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This is part of the work @matt is doing on federated reactions:

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Oh I see. Thanks Paolo

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Came here for this - thanks @PaoloAmoroso.

The problem is that this could be a lot more elaborate. Like, putting a “like” button on the articles. After being on the platform for roughly 3yrs, I’ve noticed that a lot of functionality with Write.as is never fully executed.

I’m not going anywhere, I do enjoy the writing experience. But functionality hasn’t really changed much (if at all) since my time here.

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Matt is planning some more features:

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I agree. It would be nice for those who want, to have the possibility of enabling or disabling “like” functionality for posts. Although I may not have tons of followers, still, non of them is on the fediverse so that excludes I would say the biggest percentage of readers.

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There is a flaw in this feature as it is (cc/@matt) and that is it will only display if your article is in the top 25 of all your posts. I posted an article that is relatively new onto Mastodon. It received some likes, so I went into my Write.as dashboard but no joy. It’s not in my Top 25 so :man_shrugging:

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That’s true also. IMHO the statistics should show all posts that do have a statistic to show. So even a blog post with 1 view should be displayed there. and since there is this second column maybe it could be implemented that you could sort by either “Views” or “Like” order.

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Pagination could be the answer here.

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absolutely that could be another approach