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Choose how people react

Reactions now have their own section in Studio settings. Give your community a single Like, a short list of reactions, or any emoji, then decide what one tap gives and how many reactions each person can leave. The NEO web and mobile apps follow your settings.

Three modes

Pick one in Reactions mode.

• Solo: One reaction, given with a click or a tap. Right for announcements and milestones, where a Like says enough.
• Few: Your site's reaction list as a bar: Like, Love, Haha, Wow, Sad and Angry on a new site. Hover the reaction button on the web, or long press it in the app, to choose.
• Many: Any emoji, from an emoji picker with search and groups. Your site's own reactions come first, so the usual ones stay one tap away.

What one tap gives

The Default reaction is the one a single click or tap gives, and a second tap takes it back. The other reactions are a hover or long press away.

Set it to None and the button reads React and opens the choice every time. With one reaction per person, a new pick replaces the old one.

More than one reaction each

Reactions per person goes from 1 to 5 and works in the Few and Many modes. With 1, choosing another reaction replaces the one given. With more, people can give that many different reactions to the same post. At the limit the other reactions are disabled and the picker says so: "You can give up to 3 reactions." A reaction already given can always be taken back.

One counter, or one for each

Split counters shows a counter for each reaction instead of one total. Leave it off for a quieter feed, or turn it on when the mix of reactions is the point.

Where to find it

Everything is in Studio › Settings › Global › Reactions:

The settings apply wherever reactions appear on your site, on content and on comments.

Works with the rest of the platform

• Languages. Reaction names, the button and the limit message are translated like the rest of UNA and NEO.
• Your own reactions. Add a reaction to the Reactions list in Studio › Forms › Data Lists and draw it with your own SVG icon in NEO's customization files.
• Keyboard and screen readers. On the web, the arrow keys open the bar or picker from the reaction button and move between reactions, Enter picks one, and Escape closes it and puts focus back on the button. Screen readers announce the button, each counter, and which reactions are chosen or unavailable.
• Live updates. With a sockets server set up in Studio › Settings › Global › Sockets server, counters change as other people react, without a reload.
• Web and mobile. The same modes work in the NEO web app and the mobile app, where a long press opens the bar.
• Themes. Reactions follow the light and dark themes.

Upgrading an existing site

• The old Enable 'Quick Reactions' mode option becomes the default reaction. If it was on, the default reaction is Like. If it was off, it is None.
• On the classic UNA interface, counters now follow Split counters too. A site that showed one counter per reaction shows one total until you turn Split counters on.
• In Many mode, the classic UNA interface still offers your site's reaction list. The emoji picker is in NEO for now.
• Reactions given under an earlier mode are kept, and people can still take them back.

For developers

• Every reactions object in the API now carries the site's settings in options: mode, default, per_user, split_counters and items. Any client can follow them.
• Emoji from Many mode are checked on the server and stored as e_<hex> codes, because the utf8mb4_unicode_ci collation treats many emoji as equal.
• The per-person limit and the replace rule are enforced on the server, not only in the app.
• The full change is in [unacms/UNA#5834](https://github.com/unacms/UNA/pull/5834).

Reactions are in UNA 15. Open Studio › Settings › Global › Reactions, try the three modes on your own feed, and keep the one that fits your community.