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.
423 comments
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Anonymous
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please add this functionality why does it seem obvious to everyone but you that this is both needed and wanted for many workplaces!
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Chad
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I must say, after working for two companies that used Slack, having to switch over to MS Teams has been a real disappointment. This app is so far behind Slack, it's almost embarrassing, especially when this request has been "under review" since 2019. <facepalm>
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Indrut
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up
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Rick
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Please add this feature! It is really useful in Slack and it would help us a lot in transitioning to Teams
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Brian Burleigh
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You should be able to react with any emoji. If people really want to lock this down they should be able to by flagging if the emoji is allowed or not on a per-item basis - after all, PowerShell exists and likely you already have a "can use reactions" as a boolean anyway.
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tdip
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Please take a page out of Slack's playbook here (and in every other instance) and add the ability to react with ALL emojis and to add custom reactions. It allows people to respond quickly and specifically without typing a whole thing. In addition it allows teams to see personality and get to know coworkers and clients more personally while everyone is remote.
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Bryn Evans
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You should absolutely allow any emoji to be added to that bar. You should allow users to have a grid of custom emoji's on that bar. But if you had to choose six, why did you choose "Your post makes me angry" but not a basic smiley? I either *heart* a message or laugh at it. WHY IS THERE A SAD EMOJI BUT NOT A NO EMOJI?
Thumbs up is such a great feature it was immediately adopted by my entire staff. Where is "No". How do I quickly say no to a question? Am I supposed to use the angry face when someone asks if an upload is done? How is "your post made me angry" a thing but if I it made me happy it's either a thumbs up or laughing emoji? Am I really supposed to be sending my boss hearts?
I want you to support unlimited icons, let me be stupid. But if you have to limit us to six, the current selection is ridiculous to the point I'm legitimately having trouble rationalizing how anyone would choose it.
Let me change the emoji. Let me change the default emoji for my organization. Hell, let me change the default emoji for a team. And if I want to have 40 emoji in there, why are you saying no?
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Catriel
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We need a thumbs down emoji.
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Jasper
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It's been over four years and you have still not implemented this, how much longer must we wait?
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Srinivas Reddy
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We definitely need more, Coming back to teams from slack is really not a pleasure thing !
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Corinne Soltis commented
We definitely need more reaction emojis. I don't want so many I have to scroll through them to find the one I want, but we need at least a thumbs down, some type of cheer icon, either clapping hands, or a party horn with confetti like Zoom has, and a question mark.
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Rohan M
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There are many many more reactions in a company culture that we are used to in daily chats. This set of 6 is definitely not enough. Please extend reactions to use all casual emojis. Slack is a very good example of this. But in Teams this is really a problem.
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Faruk Yazici
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There are many many more reactions in a company culture that we are used to in daily chats. This set of 6 is definitely not enough. Please extend reactions to use all casual emojis. Slack is a very good example of this. But in Teams this is really a problem.
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Mat
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I am currently PoC'ing migration from Slack to Teams, and this could be a deal breaker for us. This isn't just a "nice-to-have" - our user-base uses custom emojis constantly to show a range of emotions and reactions that are not worth typing out or replying.
My PoC was doing so well until I encountered this limitation, and I hate to say it but until this is implemented, we cannot migrate.
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LKL
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Thumbs down and exclamation point are key additions needed. Our threads are cluttered with additional comments since these reactions are missing.
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Sebastian Zaklada
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Some basic productivity related emojis are lacking
- check-mark - to allow team members to mark a simple request (such as a.g. "please read linked post by the EOD and acknowledge" posted in a channel as "done/acknowledged"
- eyes - to allow team members to mark a message as "reviewing"
- hourglass - to allow team members to mark a message as "working on it"Without those three basic emojis we are forced into cluttering our conversations with unnecessary thread responses.
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Marc
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I want to thumbs down my coworkers comments :)
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Anonymous
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Come on! I'd really like this.
I don't feel like I can be myself at work with just the 'out of the box' emoji reactions offered my Microsoft Teams.
More now than ever it is about expressing feelings and Microsoft Teams is constraining this and inadvertently forcing me to bottle up my feelings. I often don't have the words to express how I'm feeling and emoji reactions is a vital part of expressing my online work persona.
Sort it out bro! -
Raphaël B
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I hope as in Slack, a lot of emoji, because my employer is forcing me to leave Slack for Teams
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Kees
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To use Teams, not only as a meeting tool but also for virtual classrooms I'd like to have icons such as Yes/No, thumb down, away, go faster/slower. This is needed to constantly sense if attendees are still actively involved in the training.