nathank
(Nathan Kershaw)
September 27, 2022, 9:09am
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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. 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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Falco
(Falco)
September 27, 2022, 2:25pm
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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? Maybe a special little something for the admin guides, etc?
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nathank
(Nathan Kershaw)
May 5, 2023, 9:35pm
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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:
Willing to change emojis for your Discourse? Here we go.
Emoji set
Discourse ship with 7 different emoji sets. They are:
Apple/International style
Google style
Twitter style
Emoji One style
Win10 style
Google Classic
Facebook Messanger
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You can choose the style running (or re-running) the first time wizard or do it via site settings, how many emoji to allow within the topic titles, the number of minimum characters required for auto-completion, to enable or disable shortcuts and tra…
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:
Originally published at: Emoji and Discourse
We’ve always had a strong relationship with Emoji. From the earliest days of Discourse, you could add Emoji to your posts by by typing : and using our handy Emoji autocompleter: Of course : just so happens to be the first character of the most common ASCII smiley, our old pal – so hopefully…
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