Like a reply instead of up/down voting?

Yes, liking will still work with replies, you would just need to refactor the widget to show/save likes instead of votes. There are probably older versions of Community that have reply liking that you could reference.

Thanks Steven!

Just to add to this, the comments widget already supports showing likes as well as voting. It's just a matter of adding usage of core_v2_ui.Like(). I'd recommend, however, that voting also remain, as it's essential for the UX of visually nested threads.

Luke R Davidson -- Wondering if this worked for you? Struggling with the same issue, and I can't find an obvious way to enable likes instead of votes in the widget or in the forum options. - would appreciate any insight you can share here as well! Thanks.

Its not a process of enabling or disabling, you have to modify the widget code to add the Api call and associated arguments as Michael specified above

I didn't implement it yet.

+1 - Any insight from someone who has implemented this modification to the widget code would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hi Florentino, 

Circling back on this ... we worked with Social Edge to implement the change to the widget and we were able to replace the up/down voting with likes in discussion threads.