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arbitrary emojis as reactions

From idle musing: https://voe.social/web/statuses/112946 I can boost toots, and I can favourite toots. Favouriting is a bit like bookmarking, only less so. Visually, it assigns the ⭐ emoji to the toot. But what if I could choose the emoji it assigned to the toot? It could be 👍 or 🍣 or anything else at all. Toots would store the fact of the favouriting alongside the emoji, and display the emoji + counts with a query like: ```sql SELECT emoji, count(1) FROM favourites WHERE status_id = :id GROUP BY emoji ``` To an extent, this idea comes from the GitLab.com use of 'award emoji', which are often used as an ad-hoc voting mechanism, e.g.: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4058 ![screenshot from 2017-07-07 21-19-13](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/115324/27975429-0a7a3d1a-635a-11e7-855f-084cd2c41740.png) It adds a degree of richness to your interaction with the issue / toot. * * * * - [x] I searched or browsed the repo’s other issues to ensure this is not a duplicate.

Posted by lupine on Jul 7, 2017, 8:20 PM

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arbitrary emojis as reactions

lupineJul 7, 2017, 8:20 PM

From idle musing: https://voe.social/web/statuses/112946 I can boost toots, and I can favourite toots. Favouriting is a bit like bookmarking, only less so. Visually, it assigns the ⭐ emoji to the toot. But what if I could choose the emoji it assigned to the toot? It could be 👍 or 🍣 or anything else at all. Toots would store the fact of the favouriting alongside the emoji, and display the emoji + counts with a query like: ```sql SELECT emoji, count(1) FROM favourites WHERE status_id = :id GROUP BY emoji ``` To an extent, this idea comes from the GitLab.com use of 'award emoji', which are often used as an ad-hoc voting mechanism, e.g.: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4058 ![screenshot from 2017-07-07 21-19-13](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/115324/27975429-0a7a3d1a-635a-11e7-855f-084cd2c41740.png) It adds a degree of richness to your interaction with the issue / toot. * * * * - [x] I searched or browsed the repo’s other issues to ensure this is not a duplicate.

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