• sexywheat [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        2 years ago

        Press the smiley face button and look at the full list

        holy shit, this whole time I was just typing a colon and then trying to remember the names of each individual one. Is this a new feature from the update or have I been doing this wrong for the last three years? agony-consuming

        • notfutomes [they/them]@hexbear.net
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          2 years ago

          it’s always been there, but now the list also allows you to search by tags/keywords not just the designated name of the emote which is neat. This does require the admins to actually tag the emotes tho, which I think is only partially done judging by my difficulty finding some lately

        • Mindfury [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          2 years ago

          I was legitimately making this mistake and using the old emoji reference website to look the names up for two years

          i can feel the pain of this post

    • temptest [any]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      Hexbear developed an emote feature on their Lemmy fork years ago, and then converged back to Lemmy’s mainline code in order to federate, so they have a selection menu that adds a little image. Anyone can add images with the picture feature (there’s a button, or you can copy-paste and image), Hexbear just made a convenient list of hundreds of small images.

      You can also click the View Source button on a comment in the [more] options, if someone does something funky and you want to learn how they formatted it. Like inline code.

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      Hexbear has an emote feature, you can add images on any instance with ctrl+v in chat though. Not sure if you’re on mobile.