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by mssdvd 1484 days ago
I think things like the personalized timeline and comments reactions may be considered toxic by some people.
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(Disclaimer: github employee speaking for myself)

Reactions are not really about fostering “social” aspects of code review and issue triage as much as they are to prevent the need for a build up of low effort “+1” style comments. I view them as a community management tool that OSS maintainers would be much worse off without.