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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by AdityaGavit to c/[email protected]
 

built this tool that generates custom emoticons. It’s pretty fun to use, but I feel like it could be better. Since you guys are brutally honest (and creative), I figured this is the best place to ask: What features should I add? Anything annoying or clunky about it? Any cool ideas to make it stand out? Let me know your thoughts. Rip it apart if you have to—just want to make it as good as possible. Site name: EmoticonHub

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A randomizer would be great!

჻ ༘჻ღཾཿ༉〈ノ・ᕳỠ‸Ỡᕲ:*☆༘჻ღཾཿ༉჻

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That was a lot of cookies to deny just for an emoticon. But fun tool!

[–] AdityaGavit 44 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oof, you're right about those cookies, definitely something I need to streamline. Thanks for pushing through and giving it a shot anyway!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for the heads up.

OP - my feedback is fix this.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Same here. Was going to give it a whirl. Not if there are a hundred trackers having fun in my browser.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

found a bug ;)

Edit: where is the link?

[–] qaz 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is there a way to export them with Markdown to prevent missing arms?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Ooh yeah, good feature request

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I haven't seen one. Would be a nice addon

[–] AdityaGavit 17 points 1 month ago

thanks for catching that bug, I will get on fixing it ASAP

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Another one: some arms will make the base chars disappear when rendered (guessing it’s a diacritic thing)

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just me you and 748 of your closest friends, awesome. Where can I find the source?

[–] AdityaGavit 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

that was because I had applied for Ezoic earlier, but I have now removed it and changed the DNS. Could you check if you're still seeing the cookie consent? Since I m in India, I dont see these cookie notices (they're country-specific), so I would really appreciate if you could let me know if they're gone now. Thanks for flagging this

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[–] CaptainBlagbird 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

You have something like 2000 friends all wanting to contact me for legitimate interest. Is it okay, if I tell them no?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] AdityaGavit 18 points 1 month ago

Thanks for letting me know ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

(✿◠‿◠)っ¤=[]:::::>

[–] ByteJunk 6 points 1 month ago

Ok that one wins

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (7 children)

(╯❍⩌❍)╯* ੈ✩‧₊˚˚˚ ੈ✩‧₊

THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS I LOVE IT

ᕕ(✧∀✧)ᕗ•. 。˚˚ · • . ° .

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

┌∩┐❮ಠᨎಠ❯┌∩┐

Im bookmarking this site.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Agree with less cookies and trackers if possible. Google doesn't need to see my emoticons.

Also would prefer a JS free-version if possible, but I can see how that might not work.

Or maybe you're also collecting the IPs of everyone here by cross referencing usernames with the emoticons used in comments and copied from your site. Statistically, this would actually be pretty easy to use to doxx people's IPs/locations that way.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

A JS-free version would have to have the work offloaded to a server via an API request. I'm not sure if that'd be any better. At least with JS, you can theoretically read the code running on your machine

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think I've ever fully realised the depth of feeling I have for emoticons, let alone that there were others out there!

─=≡Σ((( つ•̀ω•́)つ LET'S GO!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I tried to recreate the emoticon you used, but this was the closest I could get with the available options.

(づ•̀ω•̀)づ───==≡≡ΣΣ

[–] Blum0108 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] AdityaGavit 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hah, this is great ┌∩┐⸦(͠⊙ヘ͠⊙)⸧┌∩┐

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[–] HurlingDurling 12 points 1 month ago

Found a bug

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

nice work!

i found a bug though

selecting the sixth option in the base menu puts html in the output:

(this is in Tor Browser, which is based on the "ESR" release of Firefox)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

For me the drop-down for Mouth/Nose has a lot of empty spaces, that show up when you select them.

As a emoji noob it could be nice with some text naming the specific selection.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Me: ⸦(ఠ︹ఠ)⸧︻╦╤─ - - -

You: ¯(x︹x)/¯ (dead)

[–] AdityaGavit 8 points 1 month ago

d=(´▽`)=b

[–] CaptainBlagbird 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

There are few eyes with eyebrows, I can not create Lenny Face, literally unplayable! /s

Could be worth it to separate the eyebrows, because they clearly are available with some eyes, e.g. these are 2 combined characters סּ͡͡ and these also ・ิ

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

I also noticed a curious lack of flipped tables

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
┻━┻︵ \(°□°)/ ︵ ┻━┻
(╯°Д°)╯︵/(.□ . \)

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I like it.

May I suggest a “none” option for base/eyes/mouth too?

(・‸・)

[–] random_character_a 7 points 1 month ago
[–] weeeeum 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Maybe add a "Lemmy mode" since Lenny uses symbols to mark italics, bold, etc, and causes a lot of emoticons to bug out

Like ¯_ (ツ) _/¯ when it should be ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Since the options are small for stuff like eyes ahving tabs side by side in like a grid might be cleaner than going down a list, bit unnecessarily wide

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

。゚ʢ⚗︎▾⚗︎ʡ。゚꧂

[–] MissJinx 6 points 1 month ago

¯\⟅☉౪☉⟆/¯≡=༄༅༄༅༄.༅..

[–] AdityaGavit 6 points 1 month ago

Since EmoticonHub is pretty new, I'd love to hear any suggestions on how to get the word out. Any marketing tips would be super helpful

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] Wild_Mastic 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

ヾ⦑^ ω ^⦒ゞ

edit: oh no it looks weird on voyager

edit 2: fixed (kinda). Pretty cool website, good job!

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[–] friend_of_satan 5 points 1 month ago

That is awesome!

೭〘•̿෴•̿〙೨
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

https://files.catbox.moe/e8wuxv.jpg

Maybe these arms could have the "basic" body parentheses removed like some of the others? Just thinking out loud idk if Theres a reason I missed for this

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Nice (・人・)

[–] chautalees 5 points 1 month ago

Ruin it and make yourself miserable by implementing AI into this...

Kidding aside, this is hilarious and useful at the same time! Thank you for doing something creative that does suck ass immediately

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