Some messaging apps have a feature where emojis pop up continuously (based on the keystrokes) between the keyboard and the chat screen. For example, when you type the word coffee on Line, you have a small popup containing emojis with the ‘coffee’ keyword:
Similar to how on discourse emojis pop up when we start with a : colon like below
On my local, I have made it so that whenever users type a word, the emoji menu pops up as above, but without the need to start with a colon
Letting the user choose while typing might be a better method in my opinion - the user can continue writing as before or he can choose to change a word to an emoji.
If the community and devs like this feature, I can submit a PR.
I’d prefer to keep this as it is, or a plugin at best. That has the potential to be very distracting - there are probably a dozen of the triggers which I use on a regular basis in conversation.
@davemaxwell we can have the emojis show up on the top right where it will not be as distracting, like below.
When stickers show up seamlessly without having to type a colon, I think we will have more emojis used in a post, especially if you have additional custom emojis on the forum.
Depends on how much you like emojis. I think they’re fine and they have their place, but making them more prevelant can get annoying quickly. There’s a reason they’re not instantly available.
If I want to see , the I’ll type : confused :. But I don’t want to see the emoji just because I type the word . And having the popup coming up continuously would get very distracting very quickly.
There are a reason there are so many autocorrect memes out there. Having something guess what I want to type usually doesn’t end well.
But some people might really like it - which is why I suggested the plugin approach instead. Have it if people WANT to use it, but don’t force people to use something.
I have actually started using emojis a lot more because of this feature along with many of my friends, which is why I proposed this feature. Line does this for example, and is very popular for their stickers, which you can use in this way.
I guess it has a different appeal to a younger demographic.
@sam@Mittineague What do you think of showing emojis once a minimum of three keys have been pressed, similar to search queries? For example, Smi… would show up the smiley emojis but just typing S… or Sm… would not.
, the I’ll type : confused :. But I don’t want to see the emoji just because I type the word . And having the popup coming up continuously would get very distracting very quickly.
of emojis. This would get massively distracting.
