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.
257 comments
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Benjamin Kamm
commented
+1 to other comments. In Slack, we're primarily not using emoji for sentiments like happy, frustrated, but to support team workflow like "eyes" to mean "I've seen this" or "bold check" to mean "this issue is resolved". The current facebook-like implementation may support social media type conversations, but doesn't support our use cases.
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Anonymous
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Thanks! This is a step in the right direction. Improvements come with effort and even small successes are non-the-less successes. Keep it up.
I would echo some of the sentiments expressed in other comments.
1. Allowing any Team-supported emoji would be helpful. A selection of preset emojis can be useful but organizations use different approaches to responding to messages and so being able to customize is essential. Even if only an admin could adjust presets for a given team it would be helpful.
2. Allow a user to do multiple reactions (like heart and thumbsup)
3. Keyboard shortcut to add reactions. (+:emoji_name) is the what Slack used and that works very well.
As mentioned, I am glad to see that progress is being made and I look forward to seeing additional steps taken.
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Marcus Diddle
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Nice to see the addition of the feature, however I'm finding it distracting that the emoji all present themselves automatically simply by hovering over a message. As I'm reading through message threads, I just see emoji popping up on every single message. I feel a better implementation would be to simply pop up the "…" icon by itself on each message, and then expand all available "…" options once a user clicks it.
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Derek
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Its OK, but the usability is a bit clunky
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Joseph Dunphy
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If having custom emoji support is a very high LoE, please add in some emoji's that can be leveraged for "received request and looking" (used the eyes in Slack) and one for "request completed" (used checkmark in Slack). The thumbs up is not distinct enough and has already been conditioned to just being used as a "like" of a post
The use case are for all internal operations live assists contacts within larger companies. It's so much easier when you have folks on the same team, but working in multiple geographies, that are monitoring for communications from other business areas and they scan through easily by using the reactions to identify when someone else is already looking at a request/ask for help and they can jump to the next thread/post
It's a very simple feature but makes all the difference in making communication more productive and makes MS Teams far more applicable to workflow application.
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IndefiniteBen commented
The feature request was for ANY emoji, not a subset that was chosen by a teenager instead of someone in a professional working environment.
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Leonardo
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Dear Microsoft,
I don't want to sound mean, but your strategy on emoji-based communication is beyond comprehension. Why would you use only Skype emoticons instead of full emoji support? People expect you to perhaps copy and improve upon one of the most loved features of Slack, instead you went for a facebook-hybrid that will leave most people that asked you for this feature ******.I really want to like Teams, but it seems MS is focused on making it as boring as possible. Please reconsider.
With love, Leo
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Peter Bech-Lutzka
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Professional emojis is really a "must have". Reactions like "seen" + "Agree" + "Read" + "lets meet" + "need more info" and so on would be perfect.
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Matt U
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It would be nice to be able to add in ANY emoji as a reaction, and more than one at a time.
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James ling
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Can we turn it off?
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ChrisG
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Our company is a huge supporter of Teams, but I'm perplexed:
1. The thumbs up, which I would think would still be the most common "acknowledgement" of a message, is the furthest from where you (used to) click to provide the reaction? (I get that it's now the closest, left-to-right)
2. It's now two clicks to "save" a message? (this could have easily remained with the reactions after a separator/pipe
3. Having the reaction bar float at all times, and even for messages that you've already reacted to, is an unwanted distraction
4. The display of the bar, especially when moving between/over messages is slow/clunky
5. As a predominantly business/work tool, the reactions (and choice of them) does not seem well thought through
6. Can I turn off (or configure) reactions in Teams, if we want a simplified acknowledgement/thumbs-up like it used to be?Keep at it. Thanks, Chris
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Thomas
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It's nice to see more options... however I question the ergonomic aspects of the implementation.
The previous only emoji (thumb-up) is now the one that is the longest to reach in terms of mouse move.
The closest one is quite strong and negative.
I'd personally prefer a quick/default thumb-up and the option to select another. -
Anonymous
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😥 I wanted pizzas and beers and bears and ducks and rockets and cars and flags not just those 5
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Piotr
commented
Thanks for adding it, makes interactions more humane! Works also smoothly after today upgrade on Win10 and Mac.
I am looking forward to see it on Android client as well.At the moment android client activity feed doesn't say anything about reactions other than thumb up.
My team was also wondering why there's no thumb down button. It helps when collecting yes/no feedback on ideas, thoughts etc.
Thank you!
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Paul
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A completely woeful response given the time to implement. Teams continues to underperform and fail.
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Anonymous
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Hi. Thanks a lot for the update. Unfortunately, as we use that function at work, we need some more "professional" reactions (we have to use a clearly defined set). What are your plans regarding the core of the topic "allow any emoji as a reaction"?
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Mateusz
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Why only one reaction is allowed on single message?
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Carina
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Great, thanks a lot!
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Christian Steiniker
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i'm confused -> how could you forget the poo Emoji?
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Peter Braun commented
Glad there's some movement out of nowhere on this. Love, that there's more options now! Saying that, as posted by Paul before, please, please, please immediately/ASAP change that it doesn't pop-up when hovering over a message. I do like Teams and am a big advocate for it in the office, but sorry, that one's terrible and super distracting!
