It might be beneficial to sync reactions between blog posts and their dedicated topics.

Some people react to the topic, while others react to the blog post. Synchronizing the two would prevent reactions from showing inaccurate statistics.

It may be a small detail, but I think it would help provide more accurate stats.

I'd really like to find a way to share the same comment stream between both.

4 hours ago, Matt said:

I'd really like to find a way to share the same comment stream between both.

Yes, that is definitely also a good idea.

You're hired.

In all seriousness, shouldn't be so hard to implement reactions and posts between blogs and their dedicated topics. It might be worth looking at how Pages already does this. When a database is set to use a forum topic for comments, the record's comment stream is literally the topic's posts. They share the same rows rather than being copied back and forth, so a reply in either place shows up in both. Reactions on those comments come along for free for the same reason, since each comment is just the forum post underneath.

If Blog reused that same approach, the shared comment stream you're describing would mostly fall out of it.

The one thing that pattern still doesn't solve, even in Pages, is the reaction on the item itself. The article and the topic's opening post stay as two separate reactable objects, so reacting to the blog entry and reacting to the topic starter still count separately. That's really the same thing I raised originally, so it would be nice to see that piece addressed too if the comment stream gets unified. 😁