New! Express yourself with Confluence Reactions 😍

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👋🏿  Hello Community!

My name is Daniel Ayele, and I'm a Product Manager on the Confluence team.

On the Confluence product team we’re always dreaming up ways to help our customers interact with their teams and be more productive and successful.

Likes 👍  have existed as a feature in Confluence for many years, but we believed that we could give customers even more expressive and lightweight tools to express their opinions and engage with their teams.

Today, I’m excited to announce Confluence reactions, a new feature rolling out now to Confluence on web and soon to Confluence mobile.

What are reactions?

Reactions are an interactive, lightweight way for you and your team to express yourselves on content in Confluence. Now, instead of only being able to like a page or comment, you and your teammates will be able to choose from dozens of emoji reactions (including your own custom ones). 

Reactions you create on pages and comments will also show up on your Home feed, making it even easier for you and your team to highlight and discover the best content. You can also add reactions to pages directly from the feed, helping you quickly engage with your team and content wherever you are in Confluence.

Try them out!

Reactions can make your content even more engaging! At Atlassian, we've been using reactions over the last few months and have seen a 6.4% increase in people using reactions every week and a 16% increase in the total number of reactions created!

We’re really excited about the potential of this feature to help teams engage more meaningfully with content. And this is just the start, our teams are hard at work to bring you even more collaborative experiences on Confluence. 

We’d love for you to try out Confluence reactions with your team, and let us know what you think and how you use them in the comments below.

[Srinatha T]

 These emoji's are best ways to express there feelings. Thanks for sharing this.

[G subramanyam]

Thank you @DA for this new additions to Confluence. I use the currently available reactions very frequently in both my team created confluence content as well on presentation content with clients.

They are a simple gesture with lot's of meaning and of course time saving.

May I know if this feature is already deployed or going to be rolled out in the upcoming weeks or months?

[DA]

@G subramanyam thanks for sharing! The feature is rolling out now and should be available for all Confluence Cloud customers very soon!

[Matt Reiner _K15t_]

These are going to be great, thanks @DA

🔥👍🏻✅📢🎥❓

[DA]

@Matt Reiner _K15t_ thanks Matt! Great to hear from you!

[Nikki Zavadska _Appfire_]

☕️📢🎥  👉  ✅

[Matt Reiner _K15t_]

@Nikki Zavadska _Appfire_ 
🧑🏻‍💻👩🏿‍💻👨🏽‍💻

[Logi Helgu]

Fun update, would love to see the reaction icon in the email notification too :)

[Tyler Young]

Awesome! The only thing better would be pulling in our 3k+ custom emoji from Slack... I hear y'all are pretty close nowadays...

[Matt Hurne]

Nice

[Beatrice Glienke]

Cool. Together with the new page status feature it could help to show an approval workflow of a page.
Therefore: is it possible to send out notifications when a reaction is added or a status changed?
(We are on confluence cloud standard)
Best,
Bea

[Arpit Jain]

Is there a way to identify the unique user reactions on a blog. We just see 5 names on the reactions when hover overed.

[Peter Quick]

Agree with @Arpit Jain 

A list of names has little context, we need to see the types of reactions people are adding.  

Cheers,

PeteQ