allow any emoji as a reaction, not just thumbs up
Slack has this: get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/206870317-..
Angela Sze
shared this idea
Adding any emoji as a reaction remains under review.
I am marking this as partially done to let you know a new reactions bar with Like, Heart, Laugh, Surprised, Sad, and Angry has begun rolling out to all users.
343 comments
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Steven Dove
commented
I don't understand why they are being added one at a time... why not just make the all available via a pop up menu like is in the type a new message area...
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Anonymous
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How to say these: "Thanks", "Done now", "Fixed", "Proved ok", "Can you elaborate more?", "Yes", "No". "Very well done!", "Everybody please chek this out" "this is important","This needs to be corrected".
Though, if people think that "Sad" and "Angry" are enough, then why not....
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Anonymous
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Coming over from a Slack user, I really need a lot more reaction emojis, can't we open it up to have all emoji's as reaction emoji's, like Slack?
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Daniel Hudson
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Just to say, Discord has this and you can react with multiple emojis. Works really well and can be alot of fun too. Would like to see this added
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Catherine Nelson
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Are there plans to expand the range of reactions? Like a thumbs down, emphasize (exclamation points), a question mark?
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Nyema
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How do you do the reactions
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Ben
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My friend uses a mac and a gear appeared so she can edit her reaction emojis. I use a Windows PC and I cannot. Is there a way for me to do this? I want my own reaction emojis! :)
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Вадик Аладик
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I need to add custom emoji as well. because default 15 are not enough plus the list is suspicious.
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Andrew Quee
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Emoji are not very useful in a professional environment. What would be useful is a set of informative reactions or quick responses to a question instead of spamming up the channel with single-word replies. e.g. Yes, No, Maybe, Accepted, Deferred, Later, etc.
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jonathan topf
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need more emoji reactions. or a way to apply an add on.
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Anonymous
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my vote is: "A large selection of all emojis available, for example like as many as Facebook provides"
switching from slack, it's frustrating to be limited to such a narrow selection. -
Graham Helliwell
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Particularly in these times with so many working 100% remotely, increasing the number of expressions available would really help.
FWIW people in my workplace mainly use thumbs up and laugh, sometimes heart, occasionally "sad", but basically never "angry" since it's too easy to misinterpret the target of that anger as the poster rather than the topic they posted about. -
Anonymous
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Yeah, I'm gonna need the option to change those. At no point will I be using the Angry/Sad/Heart reactions in a professional environment.
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Jerry Young
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With our users coming over to Microsoft Teams from Slack, there is a lot of frustration that Teams is lacking in the emoji arena, especially for reactions.
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Anonymous
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Please provide the option to disable emojis as a reaction and from comments. I should not be receiving any emojis with hearts on a professional platform. The like/thumbs up emoji/reaction is the only one I thought was somewhat useful, but I would be happy to never use it again if I never see a creepy and inappropriate emoji again...
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Anonymous
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How about the ability to choose any emoji, along with the ability to choose more than one emoji reaction? With the current 6 that are available, having the simple smile emoji available would be nice too.
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Anonymous
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6 emoticons should be enough for anybody — someone at MS.
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Stuart Howsden
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Please add an Emoji for 'Thanks' I end up using my mobile Teams app to say 'thanks' and that's a pain! I must say 'thanks' on MS Teams about 30 + times a day and an Emoji 'thanks' would be a great bonus. Thanks!
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Scott Grizzard
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Can you make it like discord, so you can set up quick polls without having to use microsoft forms?
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Chaiya
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I prefer it to at least be somewhat like Slack but no need full feature. At least give us to select 5 different emojis we want in the list (can replace the current default emojis). The current implementation is just "take it or leave it" kind of concept.
Anyhow, I don't expect you to prioritize or implement this soon. The reason? Most people who request this feature are forced to switch from Slack to MS Teams. So they have no choice but have to live with whatever it is. Besides, there is no real benefit for MS to implement because these people can't just run away and use something else. It is a package deal which is inevitable and unfortunate...