Note: This is not time critical or anything, Just something for the future once things calm down a little.
we've already got people posting gifs of dancing animu girls that take up your entire screen. Do not want. If they were limited in size to like 64x64px or something, or opt in, that'd be fine. I do not like having the giant images just pop up and break up the flow of comments.
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Wait this isn't struggly enough.
Anime is revisionist! 
Yeah, we have a morbillion emotes already and I like that hexbear is very text-based.
What I fear is that, in the mid- to long-term, this could result in cheap image responses drowning out actual discussion. They're more eye-catching and will naturally gain more attention, get more upvotes because they're quicker and easier to process for our monkey brains than text and in turn will be posted even more because we love our upvotes, don't we folks.
This happens pretty consistently when image responses are an option, and not allowing that is something that reddit actually does right.
Agreed. Inline images will turn Lemmy sites into little more than 4chan-with-accounts.
reddit has inline images tho
I use RES and I guess that turns them off. I never realized Reddit did this. I've never seen it.
RES does not turn them off. They show up on both old and new reddit.
You've never seen it because people rarely use it. The use will settle here too.
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Huh.
If so that's pretty wild. I can't believe I just missed it.
Though I've really only been on like five subs since 2022 and they're mostly art subs.
It's the meme subs where you see it most. Generally communicating entirely through images is seen as boomer shit though so it doesn't happen that much. Reaction gif subs use it a lot as well as the stocks meme subs.
Fair enough I haven't been on any of those since pre-pandemic I had no idea.
As a feature it has very little use outside of either memeing, using it to show graphs in effortposts, or using it to spice up certain posts with a bit of imagery. An inline image in the megathread topics would improve them, or you could put 2 or 3 peppered throughout an article.
As commenters? The main use is memeing and won't be seen all that much other than that. People will use it a whole lot to begin with because of the novelty though.
They've been collapsed automatically for me on old reddit since they've been announced.
more subreddit dependent, there were a few i used that used them a lot and it was annoying
Which is a bug more than a feature in its own right. I have to struggle to remember what the hell an emoji is called at least once a day. And scrolling through them is nearly impossible.
Maybe we do images but we just limit them to 40x40 pixels or something.
I wish we had an index for all the emojis somewhere.
We do have the ability to add any tags to emotes. Having a directory would be nice. That's what the admins see, but I think the whole interface is locked behind the admin panel.