Emoji in tag names

We at the Fairphone Forum decided to go ahead and start using this feature even though it’s not supported yet.
We hope that giving you an example of a working forum using this cool feature is a better motivation to work on implementing it than just some fancy mockups.

So, please come check it out!

Here is the introduction post to flag-tags in our forum:

and here is the list of tags:

###What works already:

  • Contrary to my last post above in general this works with all Regional Indicator Symbols.
  • Like with all other tags you can now see all threads of the same language and follow or mute a language.
  • So far we have been using discourse’s emojis (:it:, :de:, :es:, …) in the topic title, which is by far the inferior solution. Searching for topics of the same language is a pain. Searching for “:de:” will show all (or better yet 50) topics that contain “de” in the title. Searching for “:it:” will yield zero results as “it” doesn’t count as a word.

###What doesn’t work yet:

  • Not everybody can see (all of) these flags.
  • The post I linked above includes a guide to make it work on almost all computers and Android phones, but a way to let every user see the flags without having to install an emoji font would be great.
  • If you don’t see the flags you see 🇩 🇪, 🇫 🇷, 🇳 🇱, 🇮 🇹, 🇪 🇸... which is usually also quite clear.
  • but still we decided to keep using the flags in the topic title as well (for now).
  • You can’t easily #mention an emoji-tag, you’ll have to enter e.g. [🇬🇧](https://forum.fairphone.com/tags/%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7)
  • You can’t tag a topic without having to copy-paste the flag unless it’s in the top 5 tags.
  • (Minor issue): Even if you copy paste the flag you get a suggestion as though the tag was never used before. So without the “(x17)”.
    This is only an issue if you e.g. copied the flag of Clipperton Island 🇨🇵 instead of France 🇫🇷 and you don’t see that you are creating a new tag instead of tagging the topic as french (happened to me).
  • PS: Searching for flag-tags also doesn’t work yet. It would be cool to be able to e.g. search all Italian topics on Margherita, if you’re not interested in the Spanish Margherita atm.

###So in conclusion

It’s already quite a nice feature, but if discourse starts supporting it this will be epic.

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