Sledge FTB

Not necessary. A a lot of shared hostings are running in boxed/virtual environments. For example if the kernel is running on CloudLinux with proper use of CageFS. In such case you can't affect other users on the server with your php.ini and/or any of those "dangerous" PHP functions (or, more important, the other users on the server can't affect you with those ).

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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