Wish Custom Emoji Listed First Instead Of Last

[Steve Herschbach]

I don’t think most of my users ever scroll down far enough to even know there are custom emoji for the forum.

Edited October 30, 2019 by Steve Herschbach

[marklcfc]

That's partly why I don't have emoji enabled

[Matt]

 

On 10/23/2019 at 5:57 PM, marklcfc said:

That's partly why I don't have emoji enabled

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[WP V0RT3X]

Me too, most users don't like 'em anyway. They are simply ugly and they wanted their koloboks back. 

[Sledge FTB]

We're struggling with the same issue.

Even the "Replace :short_codes: with emoji?" and "Replace text with emoji?" do not work as expected when turning off default smileys.

Putting the custom emoji's on top (favorable) or being able to disable some of the default categories would make a huge difference.

[Steve Herschbach]

On 10/23/2019 at 9:57 AM, marklcfc said:

That's partly why I don't have emoji enabled

I’ve considered disabling it and may still, which is why I brought it up. I put quite a bit of time into the custom emoji, and they stopped getting used after I enabled the native mode. I had the basics already and it helps enforce cross platform compatibility. Anyway, what I am really hoping is the custom set gets listed first in an update.

[Sledge FTB]

4 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Anyway, what I am really hoping is the custom set gets listed first

That is actually the only thing that makes sense after all. The only reason one would add custom smileys, is because you want them to be used. It doesn't make any sense to list them miles away in the dungeons of the smileys.

[Sledge FTB]

Hey @Matt, do you have any more thoughts on this matter?

Or - in general - what is the regular way of getting such ideas within the IPS radar? Regardless if it gets implemented or not, any IPS response is preferred over just praying.

[Matt]

I'll bring it up with the team. It sounds reasonable to me.

[Adriano Faria]

Yes, they started to use tags a few years ago to define status of requests but they stopped it. All you can is try to get attention from others and make them express here (in other words, reply in a positive way). Things can happen.

[jair101]

I want to highlight that there are use cases when the default emojis should be on the top 😉 On my community, I prefer the old and outdated custom emojis at the bottom. This way people will slowly convert to the newer ones without me having to deal with the drama that unfolds when you disable the old emojis. Putting the old ones on top will be like there are no newer ones at all 🙂

In a nutshell: we need an option to organize the categories as we perfer. 

[boro_boy]

On 11/4/2019 at 10:00 AM, jair101 said:

In a nutshell: we need an option to organize the categories as we perfer. 

Totally agree with this. 

[zyx]

On 10/23/2019 at 5:51 PM, Steve Herschbach said:

I don’t think most of my users ever scroll down far enough to even know there are custom emoji for the forum.

Exactly. Option to have custom emoji at the top would make so much more sense.

I also feel it would be good to be able to choose which emoji appear in the emoji box. Obviously all emojis could still be used on the site, as people could use the built-in emoji keyboard on their device. But in the emoji box in the editor, we don't really need 100s of flags and symbols to be loaded every time - would be nice if we could just select which emojis to show in the emoji box in the editor, since a tiny fraction of them get used. 

Edited February 20, 2021 by theipsguy