Turn a category into an Idea tracker: Sort the category by likes and display them in the list view.

add a user's like + page-subscription

What about something like:

POST /-/v0/batch-do {
  batchDo: {
    actionList: [
      doAction: {
        asWho: 'tyid:_' | 'extid:_' | 'ssoid:_' | 'username:_',
        doWhat: 'Vote',
        voteWhat: 'Like',
        whichPost: { postId: _ } | { pageId: _, postNr: 1 },  // 1 = Orig Post
      },
      doAction: {
        asWho: _
        doWhat: 'SetNotfLevel',
        whatLevel: 'NewReplies' | 'StatusChange' | 'WhenDone' | ...,
        whichPage: { pageId: _ },
      },
    ],
  }
}

In the same spirit as the /-/v0/list and /-/v0/get and /-/v0/search APIs. There'd be a /-/v0/batch-query too, some time later.

The tag-along request — then there could be a doAction { doWhat: 'SubmitPost' , asWho: _, sourceText: _ }. — I actually think the current API, /-/v0/upsert-simple, would have been better, if implemented in this way. Then it's clear that it's something new getting done now, and notifications should get generated, rather than contents getting imported.

So, I'm thinking, /-/v0/do and /-/v0/batch-do for things getting done now real time, and /-/v0/import for importing things and not doing anything else (e.g. not generating any notifications).

I personally like better the simple approach of just using the existing "like" feature.

I think so too.

I think that all sounds pretty good, can't wait to see that :)

What do you think about Up- and Downvotes for an idea itself (the "topic" / "page" / "Original Post"), but no Like votes. And Like votes for the replies? (a.k.a. "comments")

hm... I honestly don't know what is best there. Personally I plan to use the topics/original posts more as questions, and let users reply with their opinions and vote on each opinion:

Should we change the color, and to which? (7 votes)

• I want green (3 votes)
• I want yellow (5 votes)

This leads to less duplicate content than having 2 separate topics:

• I want green (3 votes)
• I want yellow (5 votes)

When you wrote "Either ... Or ...", did you mean either 1) only Likes for both pages and replies, or 2) only Up/Down for both pages and replies? Or did you have only the Original Post / Page / Topic in mind? (Hmm maybe this sounded confusing. With "Post", do you mean a new page, or also replies?)

I was meaning to use the same system everywhere, in both topics/original-posts and comments/replies. To not confuse users in how to use the webpage:

• on the topic itself (the main post/thread) and use it to sort posts by most popular ones;
• and also on the comments, to sort comments by popularity, in sync with the option in the settings.

It could be 2 separate settings: one for the threads and another one for the comments inside threads, but I feel like this could confuse newcomers to the forum.

But your idea could also work be fine, as long as both options aren't enabled at the same time.

• companies want to sort posts by most voted/liked, and by having 2 different reaction types this can break the counter if some people like the post and others upvote it;
• and (not directly related, but interesting) the main reason why Facebook is failing so bad in recent years is that they enabled "reactions" to posts without changing their algorithm: now users can react with "angry" or "cry", and it still counts as an interaction, which still organically moves that post or comment higher up in priority. This makes hate speech and bad content to be spread virally, since it is usually easier to have people collectively disagreeing on something than users agreeing on something. This has to be avoided at all costs IMO.

Last point: did you think about having a way to display results by trust levels and/or user groups? Something like:

• topic has 100 votes
• 5 from trusted users
• 95 from new users

This could help companies prioritize topics that have many votes from paying customers over free users, and could also avoid users creating additional accounts to manipulate votes (it could, for example, display votes from new accounts but not count them to the total when sorting topics).

Sorry for the long reply, hope it helps :)

Just noticed this was out already! Amazing news :) It's so cool! Thank you Magnus!!