‘Like’ a pm message

[jonjs]

Evening all,

Is there any way for a user to like a post within a pm?

Any help would be greatly appreciated 

[Todge]

I'm afraid not.

Likes are held on the PB servers, and they are not accessible via codes. A plugin could be made to mimic the like you see in posts, but when PMs are private, I don't see what this could achieve.

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Apr 30, 2018 14:45:20 GMT -8 Todge said:

I'm afraid not.

Likes are held on the PB servers, and they are not accessible via codes. A plugin could be made to mimic the like you see in posts, but when PMs are private, I don't see what this could achieve.

At first, I didn't see any point either.  But I can see one slight benefit.  It would serve to alert ONLY the person receiving a like in a private conversation via their notifications.  Rather than adding an acknowledgement via message, where the entire group would be prompted for a new message in that conversation, a like would just confirm to that one person that the user applying the like did read and does agree.

Seems like a good bit of code to write for a limited benefit?  idk.

[opininionated]

I see a 'like' could be seen as both acknowledgement and agreement to a message when there is no need to actually reply, to achieve this i just reply with a thumbs up emoji..