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submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours 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] 6 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] 2ugly2live 2 points 2 hours ago

。゚ᕕ〔ಠ⌵ಠ〕ᕗ。゚꧂

Brilliant. I do think it would be nice is longer emoticons shrunk once they hit a certain length (though that just may be my phone).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

❀ܓ〈ὅ‸ὅ〉‎

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

(۶ಠ‿ಠ)۶

I love it!

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

Huh, should this occur with these settings:

<(•◡•)>“><( )> <option value=

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

Some other strange behaviour with this one: 👈?Ỡ◡Ỡ?️

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

(づȌ◡Ȍ)づ\̅_̅/̷̚ʾ

Favourite so far.

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

Some gaps in the options for mouth and nose.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

♬♩♪♩(/͠◉ᨓ͠◉)/♩♪♩♬

New favourite (Composer). Okay, I'll stop now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

乁(סּ͡͡‎෴סּ͡͡‎)ㄏ̸/̸̅̅ ̆̅ ̅̅

Luigi emoticon.

[–] HurlingDurling 9 points 6 hours ago

Found a bug

[–] chautalees 4 points 5 hours 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

[–] weeeeum 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours 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) _/¯

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Lemmy uses markdown to format posts. So yeah, a "markdown mode" would be awesome (just insert escape characters before each * and \ etc.)

Or maybe I'm wrong ٩(。•́‿•̀。)۶ (huh, Voyager comes with an emoticon picker)

Edit: it worked, I'm not wrong

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Nice (・人・)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

。゚ʢ⚗︎▾⚗︎ʡ。゚꧂

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I like it.

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

(・‸・)

[–] [email protected] 34 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

(✿◠‿◠)っ¤=[]:::::>

[–] ByteJunk 5 points 11 hours ago

Ok that one wins

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours 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] 36 points 15 hours ago

┌∩┐❮ಠᨎಠ❯┌∩┐

Im bookmarking this site.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

This is supa dope! What inspired this? Are there any other similar tools or is this first of its kind?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Not a huge fan of how some of the arms have () in them. The brackets should be place holders for the base, no?

〘/ᓀᨎᓀ〙/̸͆̎/͆̿̇ ͆̅͆͞͞͞͞​ι̿̿̿ ̿̎͆ ̀̈

vs

(/〘ᓀᨎᓀ〙)/̸͆̎/͆̿̇ ͆̅͆͞͞͞͞​ι̿̿̿ ̿̎͆ ̀̈

Love the tool though!

[–] [email protected] 68 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

A randomizer would be great!

჻ ༘჻ღཾཿ༉〈ノ・ᕳỠ‸Ỡᕲ:*☆༘჻ღཾཿ༉჻

[–] [email protected] 53 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] AdityaGavit 37 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours 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] 30 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Thanks for the heads up.

OP - my feedback is fix this.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

(╯❍⩌❍)╯* ੈ✩‧₊˚˚˚ ੈ✩‧₊

THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS I LOVE IT

ᕕ(✧∀✧)ᕗ•. 。˚˚ · • . ° .

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I just wish it integrated with my Android keyboard

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

that is the #1 thing I miss about Gboard (I now use HeliBoard with the disembodied Google gesture typing library loaded into it)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Ah yes I'm gesture typing as we speak

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

haha wiggly finger go brrrrrrrr

[–] IncogCyberspaceUser 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

One wiggly finger or two? I haven't been able to get dual finger swiping to work on my heliboard.
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

there's dual finger swiping!?

[–] IncogCyberspaceUser 2 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, haha Actually, I forgot I did get it to work, I just can't figure out how to use it. Lol
And can't find a guide either.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (5 children)

found a bug ;)

Edit: where is the link?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 16 hours ago

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

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[–] CaptainBlagbird 46 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 17 hours ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

Please add a link.

[–] explodIng_lIme 3 points 10 hours ago

Found a bug. Switching from the left pointed finger emotes to pointed both ways or the strong arm emote gives some unicode errors. This is on firefox

[–] [email protected] 32 points 17 hours 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 15 hours 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] 29 points 18 hours ago (3 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!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Hah, this is great ┌∩┐⸦(͠⊙ヘ͠⊙)⸧┌∩┐

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Enjoy the hotdogs

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