Emoji Picker

matteocontrini

@clarkwinkelmann hi, I saw that this extension won't be updated for beta 8. I think this is quite a big loss, emoji autocompletion might be ok but unideal for non-English communities...

I wanted to ask: could you clarify why "EmojiOneArea is no longer a good candidate"?

Thanks 🙂

clarkwinkelmann

matteocontrini hi. Yes I know that the picker itself is a feature we don't find anywhere else at the moment.

Flarum has switched from inserting emoji shortcodes (:emoji:) to inserting the emoji themselves in the text. As far as I know the EmojiOneArea library was designed to insert shortcodes. Also there were already some differences in the available emojis in Flarum and the picker and it will only increase over time because both are based on different emoji lists.

It's certainly not impossible to update this extension, but I'd rather spend the time creating a proper emoji picker extension from scratch with better integration and more options than update this extension. Not sure when I'll be able to do that though.

EDIT: also, more recently I discovered an issue in beta 8 flarum/core1692 that I'm sure would affect this extension, preventing an easy update 😢

matteocontrini

clarkwinkelmann I'd rather spend the time creating a proper emoji picker extension from scratch with better integration and more options than update this extension. Not sure when I'll be able to do that though.

Would you consider doing that as a sponsored extension? It all depends on how much it would cost, but I think I could raise the money through my community 🙂

I'm pretty sure my users are really going to miss the emoji picker whenever I'll do the upgrade.

matteocontrini

Hi @clarkwinkelmann, I just wanted to make sure that you did not miss my previous message here (matteocontrini). Should I take it as a no? 😄 should I contact you in private, maybe? Thank you

RochDI

thanks 😀

clarkwinkelmann

matteocontrini sorry I forgot about that. Yes, it's better if you contact me privately. I can't give a price without discussing the requirements you need.

WEB_Team_su

Nice 😀

clarkwinkelmann

Rejoice! The emoji picker is now compatible with beta 8!

This upgrade was commissioned by @matteocontrini for the FibraClick Forum

Install on your beta 8 forums:

composer require clarkwinkelmann/flarum-ext-emojionearea

See first post for the new settings and a notice about the emoji set.

I also want to remind you to consider the performance impact of extensions, and in particular this one. As we bundle the emojione and emojioneArea libraries, the javascript for this extension is > 650ko ⚠️ It's up to you to decide if it's worth it 😉

datitisev

clarkwinkelmann Beta 8 no longer uses EmojiOne, it now uses Twitter's Twemoji... shouldn't the extension have been updated to switch to twemoji instead ?

clarkwinkelmann

datitisev that's true, and that's one of the reasons I initially didn't plan to update this extension.

This extension adds emojioneArea to Flarum, which is a picker based on Emojione. Nothing can be done to easily convert it to a Twemoji picker.

I still plan to work on a new Flarum-native picker in the future, but it will require more work.

matteocontrini

I should add that my forum users couldn't live without an emoji picker, so... the compromise is fine for now 😄

samtto

Because the internal server of the company is forbidden to transfer the external network, and the expression cannot be displayed, what can i do?
@clarkwinkelmann

clarkwinkelmann

samtto I don't understand. Are you reporting an error you are experiencing ? What's the exact error message ?

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clarkwinkelmann what I think @samtto means here is that the URL for the emojis is probably blocked in China, and is there a way of obtaining a local library ?

clarkwinkelmann

I think emojioneArea has a setting for an alternate CDN url, but the extension doesn't make it customizable. I also know there's some things that are hard-coded, because when I tried to make the extension use the same CDN that Flarum was using, there were still some stylesheets being loaded from another CDN.

I won't be making any change to this extension unless it's commissioned.

samtto

clarkwinkelmann
eg.😁
this img fromhttps://twemoji.maxcdn.com/v/12.1.2/72x72/1f601.png
not from ./img/601.png(localhost)
My company's network is not allowed to connect to the outside network
Why not make the emoticon file local?
How to localize pictures of emoticons?Make it possible to use without connecting to the external network.

tankerkiller125

samtto It's not made local by default probably because these files takes several GB of space on the server (because you have to store every single Emoji possible in case it gets used) not every Flarum admin is going to want to use all of that extra space just to have local emoji, also generally speaking it's better to serve things like emoji via a CDN because it's very possible that the emoji is already cached by the browser if you visited another site that used them.

As far as localizing the emoji for your use case it would require a number of modifications to this extension and the flarum-emoji extension. You would also then need to download the emoji images from the Twemoji Github to a local path.

samtto

tankerkiller125 All right, thanks!

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