Possibility to define our own emoji

[floviolleau]

I would like to have the possibility to add my own emojis.

Could you please add this feature?

Kind regards

[ara4n]

this is also related to being able to send custom stickers

[ara4n]

see also element-hq/element-web#1692

[Gregoor]

I could work on this, store stickers only locally for now?

[ara4n]

That would be great! Could send stickers as data URLs, or upload them to your homeserver and refer to them via mxc:// URLs.

[Gregoor]

Since there is no method of listing uploaded media (and thereby retrieving stickers on the server), I'd just go with data URLs for now, as it's simpler.

[turt2live]

For those interested: I've started a proposal on this area (including stickers). Feel free to leave comments and suggest alternative ways to do this. The MSC (matrix spec change) can be found here: matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#1256

[BloodyIron]

One of the challenges I see with custom emoji is that not all phones/mobile devices/etc will necessarily be able to display them inherently, as that would go outside of unicode. So, this would be uniquely tied to Riot.

Mind you, I don't want to shoot this idea down, I just want to point out that emoji are primarily made possible due to unicode standardisation of them.

[CPCer]

2 years have gone...

[apiontek]

Work is being done per MSC1951 -- I'm not involved, just passing along the info.