This new layout is more closely aligned with the ordering of other platforms' emoji keyboards, including the emoji set of Skype's parent company Microsoft. New Emoticon Pickerįurthering Skype's efforts to better align their emoticon set with the standardized Unicode-compatible emoji set is a new layout for their Emoticon Picker. It was common on Japanese phones of the late 90s but rarely seen on major emoji platforms today. Released in time for World Emoji Day, this shows the ongoing effort to align Skype's emoticon set with the standardized Unicode-compatible emoji set.Īnimation isn't new to the emoji world. Funny how much the little things can matter.For the first time, animated emoticons found in Skype and Microsoft Teams now appear alongside equivalent emojis from other platforms on Emojipedia. I don't think formatting options in Discord have ever done anything like that before. Especially those trying to sell their work. The only problem is that people sharing emotes will see them very differently from each other, which is especially rough, once again, on the artists. If you're hell bent on keeping the big size, then sure, make an option, make everyone happy. For their sake (and really just for general eye-pleasing for any new user) it should be the smaller size by default.

I imagine this is also tricky for artists to deal with, considering many emotes were likely made specifically for the original size of Discord's emojis. Just two emotes posted feels like worse spam than if you'd posted 5 emotes in the original size. It takes up so much space that it's actually aggressive, like spam. Now they're huge, and it feels like I'm being attacked by emojis every time someone posts one.

I always disliked the lack of detail you could put in emojis, because they were so small.

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