Twitch-style automatic conversion of text to emoji

[wideDvaAss]

Current problem

born to emote, forced to type ::

Proposed change

Implement a setting allowing for using emotes (emoji) automatically, without the need to intentionally mark them. For example, typing That's a classic might convert to That's a <smokingduck.gif>

Additional information

Twitch and other streaming platforms use a system like this, and it can be a lot of fun.

Since emotes across communities can share names, there would need to be a heirarchy for the emote to default to for plutonium users, likely: favorites > community > other communities > default

I'm not sure how priority would work in the case of 2 "other communities" having emotes with the same name, that would need to be considered.

: should still be usable as a way to quickly search for emote names to autocomplete if desired.

Obviously not all users would want this behavior, so it would need to be toggleable.

Somewhat related discussion: zero-width emojis

Acknowledgements

• I searched existing discussions.

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