Link (emoji) assets to app/data

[mononym]

Hello. I would like to incude the following emoji set in my Discourse instance: https://mutant.tech/ (or more: twemoji | openmoji). And remove the existing ones as well.

There's a folder which holds the included emoji sets at app/code/public/images/emoji/. Is it possible to link this folder to an emoji folder under app/data/ in order to add custom sets ?

Is that even possible without a change in the Discourse package ?

Thx

[girish]

Yes, seems doable. First we need to get this Discourse 3.5 update through.

[mononym]

@girish The update to v3.5 went perfect, thanks for the work !

Looking forward to adding the custom emojis

[joseph]

https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-custom-emoji/23365 works well for me.

[mononym]

@joseph thanks for looking into this. I was trying to follow that guide but stoped short because I wanted to remove the existing emojis from my site and then upload an entire pack of emojis. If I understand well, deleting existing emojis is not possible in the interface and upload is only for 10 emojis at the time.

[mononym]

I forgot to precise that the idea was that the new emoji set would replace the already existing/used emoji on the site. If I understand well, the keywords like :heart: would be linked to a new image. A HTML rebuild would then replace the visuals in all the site posts.

[mononym]

@joseph

My first attempt is to replace the 6 standard reaction emojis manually with custom images from within the Discourse admin UI. One has to set the name heart, +1, etc. before uploading the file. The new images show up as reactions, but now, the original set is not coherent anymore as 6 images differ in style.

Second try is to upload the new emoji with a different name and set the new emoji as the 6 reaction choices. That works at first but then the reaction plugin refers to the original set when displaying the bundled reactions under a post.

I went back to the first option but I think the best solution here is still to be able to remove and replace the different emoji folders in app/data/.