:discourse2: emoji isn't in other instances

This is a teeny weeny bug, probably related to :discourse2: being bespoke or something. It would be nice to have it in the default emoji sets though in other instances. We like and refer to the mothership quite often!

I discovered this when Oneboxing.

It renders nicely here in meta:

But not in mine:

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FWIW, I find this idea appealing. :slight_smile: I just tried a workaround of adding it as an image instead, but that got pulled out as the onebox thumbnail so didn’t really work as well as I’d hoped.

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We only ship official Unicode emojis in Discourse, and leave for admins to add their custom emojis easily in the web interface.

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No space to slip a cheeky bit of branding in? :slightly_smiling_face: Maybe a special little something for the admin guides, etc?

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It has taken me years to finally stumble across how to do this!

The settings are in /admin/customize/emojis, and the documentation is here:

This isn’t surfaced very easily in a search for emoji (for example, add emoji). You can only change the search priority by category, not by tag eh?

Also, I wonder if this old emoji blog post should be updated:

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