Emoji Support

@augier I’m still open for a new proposal specifically about the opt-in option. However, I won’t be the one who creates it.

#WTF

@augier I’m still open for a new proposal specifically about the opt-in option. However, I won’t be the one who creates it.

So you are going to work on the other proposal ?

@augier No. I stop contributing to the Diaspora project today. What I mean is, feel free to continue debating about my emoji proposition from where I stop.

No. I stop contributing to the Diaspora project today. What I mean is, feel free to continue debating about my emoji proposition from where I stop.

You stop contributing to a project because you didn’t get your way and a few community members challenge the vote and request a vote for opt-in functionality?

Maybe we should just drop all the constraints and give everyone access to push to the repo and everyone can do what they like - who needs governance and working together?

Hang on, I’ll just go and get some more toys for @GP to throw out of his pram, brb.

@GP if you’re doing this, you don’t care about what people want. Think about it. There are people interested in emoji, so please finish what you began!

@rich1 I don’t see why you’d say that. You discourage people instead of encouraging them to continue what they have to finish.

I’m confused now :frowning:

I thought you were @GP?

@rich1 : It’ a trap ! Ruuuuuuuun !

Just walk away, chaps; walk away…

@rich1 It’s ok, some people learn new things every day. Others don’t :slight_smile:

I think Diaspora* should have its own nice and discreetly Smilys…

I have created a proposal on the wiki about creating our own emoji character set: https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Emoji

I hope that helps move the discussion on.

Nice thing. I already told you what I thought. Line two for me, maybe in a smaller size :wink:

It all depends. I would have liked even if notecolore was taken.

See https://github.com/treaki/notocolore.git

@goob I think asking designers doing that for us (designing emoji) it too much. One solution I found out recently is this: using Symbola emoji characters to supplement our default fonts, applying it only to a range of characters. ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11395584/fallback-fonts-on-special-characters )

You can see a comparision table here.
http://apps.timwhitlock.info/emoji/tables/unicode

I won’t create a proposal, unfortunately. It’s quite time consuming, and my opinion is that diaspora* shouldn’t be designed this way ( look up designed by committee ).

Hopefully I’ll have some time these days to put in action my ideas about designing diaspora*, and then proceed to the next step - taking over the world.

https://coderwall.com/p/ruv9hq/display-emoji-glyphs-intermingled-with-arbitrary-text
There is a guy who already chopped up the Symbola font, so it would weight less. Nicely done.
Support for unicode ranges is almost there, http://caniuse.com/#search=unicode-range

Or we could patch the existing font and this way we won’t rely on unicode ranges.

I would like to see emoji unicodes replaced by images in frontend, like twitter does.
I don’t like statements like “it does not fit to the design”. Diaspora should stay modern and should keep up with the times.
In my opinion emoji icons fit in every design because it’s the thing people know and see this times everywhere.

I also prefer a client side emoji library agains the default browser/system rendering because I totally disagree with the emojis by Android. :sweat_smile:

Well, emojis were made to avoid image replacement, I don’t support image replacement. Besides, you can already change the emojis image on Android without having to change Diaspora* or any other system.