Limited Mode

[pento]

Facebook and GitHub have implemented reactions in a limited way, only allowing a handful of reactions.

Facebook: Like, Love, Happy, Amazed, Sad, Angry
GItHub: Like, Dislike, Happy, Unsure, Love, Celebration

They clearly have two different target audiences, and are using reactions slightly differently - Facebook is using it as an extension of the Like button, whereas GitHub is behaving more like an informal voting mechanism.

If we were to implement a similar limited mode for WordPress, what would it look like?

[jeremyfelt]

It would have a filter... 😆

The faces and hands seem to make the most sense as defaults to convey emotion. There are some faces that are close enough that they could be considered duplicates if we need to save space/resources - 😙 and 😗 or 😄 and 😃 for example.

Though really, having all would be the best. :)

[peterwilsoncc]

Do you have access to stats for the most hit emoji files on s.w.org as a starting point? How representative this is, is up for debate.

[pento]

Nope, there are no stats for s.w.org usage. I don't think they'd be much use, anyway.

• They're showing the number of times an emoji is viewed, not used.
• They're heavily cached by the browser, so the frequency a browser will ping s.w.org will be wildly inconsistent across sites.

[tharsheblows]

I've been playing with this (it's great 💖💥💐 for a variety of reasons) and yes, I agree, filter the emoji.json location so people could replace the file with their own set of emoji or if it were in core have it look first for an emoji.json file in the theme then fallback to the full emoji list array.