Feature proposal: Liking posts / Post reactions

[antoniobg]

I was going to implement a "like this post" feature in a forum I'm building, but then I thought that it could be an interesting feature for the forum engine itself. I'm not sure if it's something the maintainers of the project would like to include, I would be happy to help if the answer is yes.

[glebm]

What do you think about making it a plugin instead? There are several ways to do the reactions themselves, and there are alternative approaches such as HN-style upvote/downvote, so it'd be nice if the choice was up to the user.

I think an architecture where the core is slim and provides extensions mechanisms for plugins is easier to build on and maintain in the long run.

This seems like it would be a popular plugin, so we can install it with thredded_create_app by default, and use it in the demo app. We can also host the repo under thredded.

[antoniobg]

Thanks for the answer. I agree that it makes sense to have it separately and do not bloat the core application with unnecessary features. I'll take a look at the plugin approach and will come back to you when I have some free time.

[glebm]

We don't have a good example plugin to base this on, but the UI can be extend by plugins via view hooks (you'd need to add some view hooks to the core for this which is perfectly fine).

Here are some links:

• View hooks documentation: https://github.com/thredded/thredded#view-hooks.
• A very simple plugin: https://github.com/thredded/thredded-bbcode.
• An issue where we discuss the testing story for plugins: Integration tests harness for plugins #497.

[lukesarnacki]

@glebm I need that feature as well, but I am not sure I will have time to implement it as a plugin. I don't think that upvote / favourite buttons should be hidden on actions menu, so will you accept a PR with hook on post header? I would prefer it over copying header view.

[glebm]

Yes, more hooks are welcome, thanks

[anushamummina]

@glebm Is the upvote/downvote feature included in threaded? I would like to use that feature in my forum. I am not getting any idea where and how exactly I need to use to achieve that feature. could you please guide me .

Thanks in Advance

[glebm]

No, it is not included in Thredded and I don't know of any plugin that adds it.