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allow to search posts by reaction, eg: reacted:username (analog to involves:username), can serve as searchable bookmark #1216

Open timotheecour opened 6 years ago

timotheecour commented 6 years ago

sending this to https://github.com/contact:

subject: feature: search posts on which I had a reaction (eg: +1)

Currently, as I understand, there's no way for me to search posts on which I had a reaction; that makes reaction not so useful for the person who reacted.

We can already sort by reaction (eg https://help.github.com/articles/sorting-search-results/) but not filter results by a user having a reaction (no reaction mentioned in https://help.github.com/articles/searching-issues-and-pull-requests/)

This is bad, as it incentivizes ppl to add a comment (with a +1) instead of react with a +1 just so they can find that post later.

option 1: make involves:username also add posts (eg issues/PRs) on which I've reacted (eg with +1) (even if I did not comment on them) option 2: add a new flag reacted:username which searches posts (eg issues/PRs) on which I've reacted (eg with +1)

obviously option 2 is preferrable as it's more flexible

related

https://developer.github.com/v3/reactions/#list-reactions-for-an-issue-comment

jcrben commented 6 years ago

Just submitted this as well...

I think this is a duplicate of https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/607? We could probably close this one.

nickcarenza commented 6 years ago

+1 So I can find this later

ChrissW-R1 commented 5 years ago

This feature is really needed. Currently it is necessary to comment every issue / pull request to make it possible to search all, which I'm interested in. It's not very useful, if GitHub already have the option of "short comments" in form of reactions like +1.