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by leosanchez 58 days ago
IMO Only thing good about Teams is Emojis
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Cant wait to look like an idiot after sending a heart to my boss while trying to select the hostname
Maybe he will like it! Who knows?!
Do you mean the way that Microsoft hijacked open-parenthesis, and you can't choose a different character to trigger an emoji call?
Which is extremely practical for French, where the colon comes after a space. So if you want to write an actual colon to introduce a list on the following line, you’ll just input whatever the default smiley is.
aha - they've added colon.

I notice that ( still goes into emoji mode though.

So, the worst of both worlds. I should not be surprised. (And I am not.)

Except for the fact where their emoji :shortcodes: are different from everyone elses, so if you're not careful you end up looking like a lunatic.
IMHO they are not. Using the shortcodes via () works okay-ish, but open the emoji menu is just awfully slow, it takes a solid 5-8 secs for it to show the emojis not recently used. It's absolute garbage.
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And yet Slack still does it better