Ugh, I really don't care for their selection process. Emoji should be open source even though that means there will be nazi emoji and porn emoji, it should be up to the user which ones they use. The selection committee seems like a very arbitrary group and many of their decisions seem equally arbitrary.

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rkomorn 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I don't know if you've ever used even remotely popular slack instances, but I'd say the flood of new reactions people are constantly adding on the slack instances (including corporate ones) I've been on is not something I'd want to see repeated for emojis.

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Freak_NL 3 days ago | parent [-]

Useful feature though, but just for limited audiences (not just Slack of course, Mattermost does this too). We have a grammar Nazi flag, a rubber duck, and an animated dancing banana.

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rkomorn 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I like it! And I've been guilty of adding my own.

But yes, limited audiences. Exactly that.

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BeFlatXIII 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Is the Grammar Nazi flag the Grammarly logo but with a swastika instead of the G?

	▲	Freak_NL 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		This one is a stylised black square 'G' rotate 45° on a white circle in a red field. Definitely off-colour dev humour for internal use; but that has its place.

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jamilton 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

At that point just have a messaging standard that allows in-line small images.

	▲	anigbrowl a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah, basically. I'm thinking of something like stickers on messaging apps but without the oversized graphics.
	▲	account42 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's only a matter of time until Unicode adopts embedded SVG.

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throw0101d 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

See Private Use Area perhaps:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas

On your private site with your private client you can stuff whatever symbols you want for any particular code point I guess (§ Vendor use).

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lifthrasiir 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This has been already brought up multiple times with multiple different proposals, all of which were unsatisfactory to this date.