Hi!
I'm looking at the Forem's API specifically for building a DEV.to integration. I noticed that the article object has two fields related to two reactions: positive_reactions_count and public_reactions_count. I'm not sure what's the difference between the two, but I'm looking for another metric: the unique number of users who reacted to the article. I want to estimate the popularity of a given article, and total reactions can be tricky because one user can react multiple times.
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I have an answer for the first part of your question here:
positive_reactions_countis an alias forarticle.public_reactions_count. So they’re actually the same thing.You can see the PR where this was changed and why it was aliased instead of removed completey.
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This moves the functionality from
positive_reactions_counttopublic_reactions_count. All changes are simply renamingpositivetopublic.Related Tickets & Documents
#7919 #7932
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" I'm looking for another metric: the unique number of users who reacted to the article."
I am talking to our product team about this part of your question and will let you know when I hear back from them 😃
That's great I thought it's just an alias but it's good to have it checked :)
Waiting for your answer. Thanks a lot 🙏
Hey @idoshamun thanks for the question! I am asking internally for a more information on these fields and will try to get a more specific answer back to you soon.