Recently, images and timelines have gotten the ability to be liked and commented in (as well as an UI update). Categories are an important part of WA, specially for organising, yet they lack the ability to (as reader) interact with them.
As of right now, category pages have great potential, they are highly personalizable, but they feel under used and barely known. Reaching one of these pages is a bit hard and thus, people either don't know about them or always leave them empty, with the default table of contents in it.
Adding the ability to like and comment pages would incentivise people to put work in them, make them useful to their worlds, and would incentivise people to read them, take a look at them.
Examples:
Im currently developing a homebrew System with others, creating a TTRPG youtube channel and when i make my creations open to the public i want to see peoples feeback on my world.
This petition reminds me that I currently don't use category pages well, and would certainly like more feedback and tips on improving them! Would likes and comments help with that? I'm unsure. Would it help some people? I think so. While this would not be a priority for me, I would be happy with the option to receive likes and comments on category pages. I can see myself trying to draw people into discussions about my characters or my visual novel in general through the use of categories, rather than individual characters. In general, I would welcome more ways to interact with other WA folks outside of the official Discord. Thank you for sharing your ideas Catoblepon. And Fierce T-Rex, feel free to suggest liking maps with your own suggestion? :)
Please for the love of god, no. What's next? Liking variables? Likings tagged lists? Liking containers? Liking quotes? You could have suggested liking maps instead of this :(
Mildly opposed. While I do get a dopamine hit when I get new likes and I would like an excuse to get more, in my opinion the most important function of "likes" is to get feedback on which articles resonate and which don't. Given that categories are mainly an organizational tool, adding likes to it throws this off.
Painfully on the fence about this one. For my setting, most of our categories are used to organize data in a way that makes it so we don't go insane with how many articles and things we have. I don't know if I have the strength to make them all pretty. Also, @'ing a category is kind of annoying too. But overall, this would be for better engagement. As long as no one makes competitions out of "Best Category".
I would love to be able to use category pages more and even have been starting to link to them instead of articles in some places. I like the idea of them being used kind of like 'hubs', and if people are able to like and comment it won't feel like that work is being wasted.