GeezerVison is showing github.com — Add explicit `+1` feature for issues that isn't a comment · Issue #9 · isaacs/github
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Add explicit +1 feature for issues that isn't a comment #9DescriptionOften people post github issue comments like 👍 just so that they can get notified when there are updates, and to indicate that they are also interested in an issue.
It'd be nice if they could just click a thing to do that, without posting a comment that emails everyone else uselessly. It could even put the 👍 comment on the page for cute factor if you feel that's important, but without emailing everyone.
For bonus points, let the project maintainers sort the issues list by the number of votes.
Then the 👍 behavior would be useful, rather than spammy.
Update: (there's a Change.org petition for this now](https://www.change.org/p/github-inc-add-voting-functionality-for-github-issues) Reacted by Lukasz Jagiello, Frank Farmer, Mike Chrobak, Rucheli Berry, dgw, Alexander Shishenko, Willem Mulder, Dmitri Shuralyov, Anton Moiseev, Giampaolo Bellavite and 229 more Reacted by наб, Leagsaidh Gordon, Kande Bonfim, Igor Soloydenko and AraHaan Reacted by Chad Whitacre, TPS, William Lauzé, Kande Bonfim, Igor Soloydenko, 0x4483, Stephen Young, DerZyklop, Ryan, kfir and 4 more Reacted by mathphreak, Mathieu M-Gosselin, Willem Mulder, Dmitri Shuralyov, Chris Rebert, Bruno Heridet, Jordan Harband, Firtina Ozbalikci, Michael, congusbongus and 44 more Reacted by Leagsaidh Gordon, Limo, Kande Bonfim, s3v1, Garvin Schwarz and AraHaan Reacted by Alex Skrypnyk, David Badura, TPS, lioras, Simon Owen, Kande Bonfim, Igor Soloydenko, s3v1, Jérémy P., Malcolm Nihlén and 8 more Reacted by Vlad Sudakov, SPGoding, Attila Molnar, Kristof Lünenschloß, bl-ue, shreyasm-dev and AraHaan Reacted by bl-ue and AraHaan Activityericf commented on Jun 4, 2013 Reacted by dudongdong, Hien Nguyen, Vitaly Sergeyev, drakkhen, Andre Wyrwa, Alberto Ll., Scott Warren, Medya Ghazizadeh, Aipa, Geoff Ruscoe and 35 more Reacted by zhenian, TPS, Jimmy Wärting, Stéphane Lavergne, Mikel Ward and AraHaan Reacted by Mithgol, Damien Molet, David Badura, Mike Johnson, dudongdong, TPS, Anna Henningsen, AbigailBuccaneer, Tom Kenny, Marcel Bühler and 20 more Reacted by Martin Bonnin, Kevin Panko, Logan Cool, shreyasm-dev and AraHaan Reacted by Firtina Ozbalikci, Jamen Marz, Gio d'Amelio, David Knezić, andreymal, dudongdong, TPS, Stéphane Lavergne, Ivan and AraHaan Reacted by Stephen Young, Oliver Kopp, Garvin Schwarz, Matthis Thorade, Ivan, Jonas Hungershausen, Logan Cool, shreyasm-dev and AraHaan Reacted by Duan Yukai, Logan Cool, shreyasm-dev and AraHaan isaacs commented on Jun 4, 2013 @ericf I see what you did there. ;P Reacted by TPS, drakkhen, Limo, s3v1, Stéphane Lavergne, Alisa Sireneva, Dhruvdutt Jadhav, Shishir Anshuman, Mykaelos, Javier and 9 more sarahhodne commented on Jun 4, 2013 Such a button already exists:
It might be made more prominent, though. Reacted by TPS, sasharlemin, NecronomiconCoding, Gianluca Esposito, Nicolas Coutin, Fusl, mimimi, David Refoua, Joe Kaufeld, Oskar and 2 more Reacted by TPS, s3v1, David Refoua and AraHaan polotek commented on Jun 4, 2013 @henrikhodne I'm not sure if people think of watches as an indicator of importance on issues. To me it just means I want to get emails about new comments. It can probably be repurposed to have more meaning though. Reacted by Stéphane Lavergne, Gianluca Esposito, endolith, Phritz and AraHaan imakewebthings commented on Jun 4, 2013 @henrikhodne I think what @isaacs wants is a distinction between watchers and a vote of support for the ticket. The Chrome bug tracker does this with "starring" an issue. They may be an interesting case to study because despite that feature they still get a ton of +1 style comments. I think in part because the star is not featured prominently, not explained in any way inline, and generally is not a good representation of what it means. Reacted by Sybille and AraHaan sarahhodne commented on Jun 4, 2013 Ah, sorry, I missed that there were two parts to the issue, I only read "make a button so we don't have to comment 👍 to get notifications". isaacs commented on Jun 4, 2013 @henrikhodne Yeah, also, there's no way to sort the issues list by the number of watchers, and maybe it could be set up so that the watch link is closer to the "comment" button, and a sort option in the issues list, or a variety of other potential approaches. It would also be nice to not send us all an email for comments that are just an emoticon, maybe. I'm not sure the best way to do this, but it seems like the functionality and data is there, and some relatively minor adjustments could make it much more useful. Reacted by shengzhi zhou and christmasferret dresende commented on Jun 5, 2013 Reacted by Jimmy Wärting, Sean Flanigan, Stéphane Lavergne, humhei, Moataz Elmasry, Mikel Ward, Ari, Joe Kaufeld and Louis Eiermann jsocol commented on Jun 5, 2013 Is there any way to expose the number of watchers? "Participants" only includes people who comment.
+1 to the 👍 button, though if nothing else, at least in the short term, saying "6 participants and 18 watchers" would be helpful. jzaefferer commented on Jun 11, 2013 On Chromium, maintainers are suspicious of issues that get a few dozen stars within a day, blaming the reporter to have a "huge twitter following". polotek commented on Jun 12, 2013 Ha, does that somehow make the data less valid?
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Jörn Zaefferer [email protected]:
On Chromium, maintainers as suspicious of issues that get a few dozen
starts within a day, blaming the reporter to have a "huge twitter
following".
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zbynekwinkler commented on Sep 19, 2013 Reacted by Jimmy Wärting and Stéphane Lavergne patcon commented on Sep 19, 2013 Can we separate this out into separate issues? As it stands, I want to express my support for some things mentioned here, but some of it feels like feature creep.
Here's what I see for issue candidates:
I want a way to watch a thread without needing to comment/+1 DONE- I want a way to +1 an issue without inflating comment count (and presumably without notifying others)
- I want a way to sort issues by watchers.
- I want the option to not get notifications on +1 comments (or comment below a char threshold?)
Did I miss anything here? Reacted by Sean Flanigan and Sybille Reacted by TPS fgrehm commented on Sep 19, 2013 Reacted by TPS, Stéphane Lavergne and Imsety Reacted by Alexandre Morgaut carols10cents commented on Oct 24, 2013
I want a way to sort issues by watchers.
OR sort issues by 👍 votes, if that functionality is made independent from watching. People might want to leave a 👍 to indicate that they're experiencing that issue too, or they agree with the idea, but don't want to get notifications-- I suppose it's up for debate which number would be a better metric for user pain/need. Reacted by Sybille Reacted by TPS and Shreyas Minocha rummik commented on Mar 21, 2016 @TPS I don't think it should be closed off until we have a way to sort issues by reactions, since that can be considered crucial to a voting system Reacted by Michael Reacted by TPS dmitshur commented on Mar 21, 2016
I don't think it should be closed off until we have a way to sort issues by reactions, since that can be considered crucial to a voting system
@rummik The original issue title is "Add explicit +1 feature for issues that isn't a comment". In the description, it mentions voting/sorting as a bonus:
For bonus points, let the project maintainers sort the issues list by the number of votes.
So this issue being closed is quite fair. There's issue #600 that tracks ability to sort issues by votes, etc. Reacted by TPS Reacted by TPS rummik commented on Mar 21, 2016 @shurcooL My response was was in reference to the Change.org petition that was mentioned by TPS. I agree that this issue should be closed, since reactions do fulfill the issue text Reacted by Dmitri Shuralyov and TPS TPS commented on Mar 22, 2016 @rummik Just put up another petition for that.... 😄 TPS commented on Mar 24, 2016 Reacted by TPS, Edwin Khoo, *Kim Zick and Patrick "Trick" McCarthy Reacted by TPS and *Kim Zick Reacted by Alexander Shishenko joffrey-bion commented on Mar 24, 2016 I would not say this is solved. There is still no actual issue upvoting. Just reactions to comments. I don't need reactions, I would like a voting system by issue. I'd like to sort my issues by upvotes minus downvotes count. What is preventing such a simple thing to happen? Is it much more complex than it sounds like? Reacted by Alexander Shishenko, Franz Josef Kaiser, Braham Snyder, Drazen Bjelovuk, Freso, Ben Haynes, Germo Görtz and 狂男风 mitar commented on Mar 24, 2016 Are those reactions exposed through the API? If so, then you can create any dashboard computing and sorting you want. sergei-ivanov commented on Mar 24, 2016 @TPS: I am afraid, it still does not cut it. Hence the petition will remain in place.
- When sorting by reactions, the number of reactions is not displayed in the list.
- It is still unclear whether the sorting takes into account the reactions on the headline comment only, or on all comments in the issue. If it is the latter, then it is pretty useless.
- I am still failing to see the point of using reactions as a pseudo-voting functionality. In my view, they provide a social aspect that is orthogonal or complementary to voting. I am still struggling to understand why a simple up/down voting system on the issue level cannot be implemented.
Reacted by Alexander Shishenko, Sami Kankaristo, Brian Wylie, Joffrey Bion, Hannes, Graeme Rocher, Franz Josef Kaiser, Braham Snyder, Germo Görtz and Sybille Reacted by TPS howardroark commented on Apr 2, 2016 TPS commented on Apr 9, 2016 @sergei-ivanov & all other gripers: If you have a problem with closing this issue as solved, I'll bet y'all will hate #640. Check it out & let me know what you think. 😜 Reacted by Kyle Kelley and TPS Reacted by TPS vsiegel commented on Jun 5, 2016 I'm clearly opposed to per comment voting, because of the clutter;
But it seems useful to be able to state that an issue is important to one person more,
i.e. me, experiencing it too.
For this, the way launchpad.net does it seems to be brilliant:
Assuming you are logged in and have at least minimal write access
to the system, directly after registering:
There is a link text
This bug affects 109 people, but not you. (Edit)
with a pop up
Does this bug affect you?
Yes, it affects me
No, it doesn't affect me
Selecting "Yes...: adds one and changes the link text to
This bug affects you and 110 other people (Edit)
The UI when logged in is shown in the next two screen shots:
If you are not logged in, the message reads:
This bug affects 109 people, but not you
which is not linked and has no edit button - but somehow suggests that you may
edit it when logged in.
I think it's important that all this does not even resemble a "+1" or "like".
It's technically very similar, but the psychological model is quite different, which makes me hope it does not provoke the same unwanted behavior by analogy.
For full context, see example top left, either logged in or not. Reacted by TPS, Edwin Khoo, Nam PHAM, Johannes Millan and Sybille dmitshur commented on Jun 5, 2016 @vsiegel That link results in 404 for me. Perhaps one needs to be logged in to see it. Maybe should post a screenshot too. vsiegel commented on Jun 5, 2016 @shurcooL
Right - first, I was logged in, which changes that part of the UI; I will extend the above comment to explain.
Also, - second part -: I somehow had added an additional character "l" (small L) at the end of the of the URL, which broke it, sorry. Corrected.
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