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.
410 comments
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Jerry Young
commented
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...
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Brenna Gould
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Please prioritize! While not a functional issue, it continues to be a point of "Slack is better at this" from our users. Sad!
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Winnie Mui
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Please include "thumbs down" emoji as priority. That way, we can answer yes/no questions with "thumbs down" as well
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Anonymous
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another vote here.
Need to have possibility to use any of existing smiles to make reaction on the messages. If project managers can not invent smth new, just take a look at the slack implementation. Very handy.
and even better, if would be possible to add reaction on the message through the API as well (in case if this feature https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/19199878-allow-to-post-a-reply-to-a-conversation-via-rest is finally implemented).
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Michael Staszewski
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Another vote here! Slack allows for custom emojis, but maybe that's a bit much? At the very least a full emoji set along the lines of Slack would be ideal, thanks.
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Anonymous
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It would greatly improve usability to add {InProgress,Done,UserSignedoff} to allow us use a teams channel as a request queue. The fact there are so few emojis and we cannot add our own is very limiting.
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Wissam Hobeika
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Having any emoji as a reaction will affect our productivity and communication past over any language barrier and culture. Really important to have it open to any reaction similar to slack.
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EricW
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As a Teams Admin migrating a few thousands developers into teams this was brought up again. I know there are a lot of priorities but this seems fairly low hanging fruit. Ether do all emojis or at least expand significantly. This isn't the kind of feature I want my developers complaining they dont have. Last update Alex was over a year ago, time to give us an update please.
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Anonymous
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Also would like a +1 emoji. Thumbs up to agree with someone or 2nd their opinion feels weird.
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[Deleted User]
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Why on earth is this being prioritised when core fucntionality is 'on the backlog'. Get your priorities straight.
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Anonymous
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I wish an "eye" emoji as a reaction that it is read. Everything isn't always "thumbs up"
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Alan
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Not needed. I use a screen reader and emoji require me to re-read and translate the emoji to a "yes" or "no".
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SAM
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@Alex Can you also considering one emoji for Done expression. As the teams collaborate they don't need to type anything ... someone ask something .. We can directly use the Done expression that's the task completed as this is mostly used between Teams at work
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Karynn
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6 emojis is not sufficient. Please open it up like Slack. Thanks!