[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress Trac] #5644: Activity Favorites: alternative management & new features

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#5644: Activity Favorites: alternative management & new features
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 Reporter:  imath                     |       Owner:  imath
     Type:  enhancement               |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  14.0.0
Component:  Activity                  |     Version:  2.0
 Severity:  normal                    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch has-unit-tests  |
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Changes (by prbot):

 * keywords:  needs-patch => has-patch has-unit-tests


Comment:

 ''This ticket was mentioned in
 [https://github.com/buddypress/buddypress/pull/238 PR #238] on
 [https://github.com/buddypress/buddypress/ buddypress/buddypress] by
 [https://github.com/imath imath].''
 I'm back again with Favorites improvement. The story of this ticket
 highlighted the fact we should consider moving to **Likes**. I agree and
 now we have a Backward Compatibility Add-on (BP Classic). I believe we
 should move the Activity Favorites feature into this Add-on and finally
 have **Likes** instead into BuddyPress.

 I've tested many ways to fix this ticket and I believe I finally have
 something solid to improve how we deal with **Likes** or more globally
 with **Reactions** to an activity. My reasoning to build the Activity
 Likes feature is Activity comments or Activity Likes are both reactions to
 an activity: I like what the activity says or I reply to it. So **Activity
 Likes** can be compared to Activity comments without content. If this PR
 is still a WIP, it already contains:

 - An Activity Type API (it should help us fix
 [https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6429 #6429]
 - Examples of what improvements this API can bring: see the
 `bp_activity_type_supports()` function.
 - An initial Reaction API I'm inaugurating with the **Activity Likes**
 feature.
 - Adding/Removing Likes, getting likes count for an activity, getting the
 activity the user liked

 Next steps if we agree on this scenario:
 - List the users who liked an activity on the Activity single screen
 - Ajax/JavaScript implementation into Template packs

 More possible ambitious steps:
 - Sort Activity stream according to number of activity likes
 - Sort Activity stream according to number of comments.

 I really think we should go this road for Activity Reactions/Likes. What
 do you think? Should we make this the 14.0.0 release top feature?

 Trac ticket: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5644

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