Slack has this: get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/206870317-..

Would like the ability to turn off all emoticons. Every chat application I've ever used (Skype, Lync, Slack, Hipchat) allow this option. Or/and make the emoticons smaller.

It would also be nice to have the option to minimize an emoji or resize an emoji within the chat feed once a user has posted it. Currently ‘edit’ or ‘delete’ is available per message, possiblly if ‘minimize’ or ‘collapse’ option would make this possible? This would enable the viewer of the feed to create their own visual experience/not have to look at emoji if they don’t want to.

Please add more emojis. For example
Add the onion emoji.
Add the poop emoji.
Add a “curtsy” emoji to compliment the “bow”.
Bring the fistbump emoji over from Skype into Teams.
Add the Party Parrot emoji collection.
Add emojis that relay more positive messages (most seem negative).
Add flags emoji collection.
Add “canyoutalk” emoji from Skype.
Add medical-themed emojis for those who work in the medical field.

Emoji set is limited and almost exclusively white and male. This doesn't reflect the make up of most modern workplaces and certainly doesn't reflect the make up of your global user base.

Integrate Bitmojis into Teams, so I can use my avatar while chatting with my coworkers.

Please implement full support of: http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html

Add the ability to use GIFs for the avatar, not just photo uploads.

I like a lot about Teams. However, one of the nice features of your main competitor is that on things like GIFs you can minimize them. GIFs are fun, but after the initial fun they are annoying to keep seeing auto playing in the feed. So a way to minimize them in the feed would be great.

Add per user setting to enable/disable emoji animations.

Add the possibility to use Emojis and Gifs on chats with external Teams users

A new set of reactions to substitute like functionality is just great. However what we need is a facepalm emoji reaction to convey the true reactions to many posts - let's make it happen!

On an official conversation Thumbs Down symbol is very helpful as it was with Thumbs Up. So, Please plan to include the Thumbs Down emoji/symbol in the Teams chat.

We need the ability to react to posts with emojis. The full suite of emojis should be available. Any person should be able to react with multiple emjois per post.

I'm a brown person, and I'd like to be able to choose a brown hand for the thumbs up sign and some of the face emoji's. The globe is a colorful place

Amongst others, Github and Slack use a common naming schema for emoji. Teams has a different naming schema for at least part of the emoji set, for example:
":ok_hand:" - not present in Teams
":disappointed:" - can't even be typed, as soon as ":d" is typed it becomes a Skype emoticon

Please use a common naming convention that a lot of people have already gotten used to.

We're supposed to be working... so selecting the perfect Giphy is a bit of a distraction. Allowing for a randomized Giphy selection (based on keyword) by using a shortcut is something your competition offers, and is missed dearly by our team. Part of the fun was/is being surprised by what pops up.

Can we have an option to favourite GIF's?

If I type D:, as in the D-drive of a computer, it converts it to an emoji. If I hit the backspace it completely deletes it, but doesn't undo the emoji conversion. I'd like a way to be able to disable the conversion of text-to-emoji (and not have it display incorrectly for a recipient) or have the option to backspace when a piece of text is converted to emoji and have it revert back to what it was.

Thanks!

Giphy keyboards on other business comm apps have amuch more extensive library if gifs as well as a much better search feature (i.e. Slack)

Please improve the giphy keyboard - we all love using it but the Teams one is quite unuseful!