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No emojis in Viva Engage
Hello dear community,
I love viva enage and the path it has taken.
Now with the co-pilot in preview, things are really coming together.
Just one question has been bothering me for a long time:
Does anyone here know why emojis have not been used on a social platform like this until now?
Yes, you can react with emojis, but what would be much more important is to use emojis when writing a discussion question or post.
And if someone knows the answer, why was it omitted ?
Many thanks in advance.
- I see your point about the emoji feature in Teams, alongside GIFs that is similar to the GIF feature in Viva Engage. Teams also has stickers, which Viva Engage doesn't have.
I think the most obvious reason for the difference is the concept of product simplicity. Viva Engage errs on the side of simplicity much more than Teams does.- Yes, you're right, it is fundamentally simpler.
But we're talking about emojis here, which already exist for reactions to a post, for example.
And I don't believe that emojis make the product "more complicated", on the contrary.
Anyway, is there a place for viva engage to request such a feature?
Thanks for the exchange- Viva Engage is expanding the reaction set from 6 to 30. It won't be adding a Teams-like Emoji add-in function (next to GIF, etc.) but will greatly improve the options for reactions. (Like, Love, Sad, etc.)
https://pupuweb.com/mc697805-expanded-reactions-viva-engage/
You can use emojis, just use the emoji keyboard that's built into your OS, So Windows-key and . will bring it up 🙂
yes ok, that's a good workaround.
but i don't think that can be the long term solution, also how to explain to customers.
How it works on a mac?
And the question remains, why are there emojis in Teams and not in Engage?
