It would be great to have the ability for channel recipients to add reactions to messages.
Another useful improvement would be for the “Reply Privately” option: when replying to a message from a channel, the reply should be sent as a regular private message, keeping the link back to the original channel post.
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FYI there has been some discussion here
I think the Telegram-style of “companion group chats”, where commenting on a post means leaving a message in the companion group in reply to the original post, would be a good approach. Maybe the same can be done with reactions, but then anyone can see who left what reaction.
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So e-mail threads where the default is not “reply all”, but a subthread?
the problem is that reactions can be any string, and as it is well known even from telegram were reactions can’t be arbitrary words, trolls will abuse reactions, that is why channel owners would limit and offer a set of reactions available in their channel,
maybe it is good enough to don’t care about it initially tho, but it can be depressing for the admin if suddenly several people are using “funny” offensive reactions
However, we should not forget that in Delta Chat, subscribers are not added by themselves, but by the owner himself, therefore there is no place for trolls. Channels in DC are more like Telegram stories.
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this is because they are a prototype at the moment and not fully implemented, they will soon have invite links like groups and then anyone can join, anyways even if admin can remove subscribers, they don’t necessarily want, it is not really trolls but “funny people” making “funny jokes” and channel owner just want to limit the awkward moments and bad vibes without going to the extreme of kicking people out of the channel
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anyways the main blocker here is that reactions are not visible by other subscribers so it is unexpected for you to see only your reaction, same for comments