built this tool that generates custom emoticons. It’s pretty fun to use, but I feel like it could be better. Since you guys are brutally honest (and creative), I figured this is the best place to ask: What features should I add? Anything annoying or clunky about it? Any cool ideas to make it stand out? Let me know your thoughts. Rip it apart if you have to—just want to make it as good as possible. Site name: EmoticonHub

  • unhappy.termiteEnglish
    74•1 month ago

    A randomizer would be great!

    ჻ ༘჻ღཾཿ༉〈ノ･ᕳỠ‸Ỡᕲ:*☆༘჻ღཾཿ༉჻

  • guyEnglish
    67•1 month ago

    That was a lot of cookies to deny just for an emoticon. But fun tool!

    • @AdityaGavitOP
      44•1 month ago

      Oof, you’re right about those cookies, definitely something I need to streamline. Thanks for pushing through and giving it a shot anyway!

      • @[email protected]
        12•1 month ago

        Same here. Was going to give it a whirl. Not if there are a hundred trackers having fun in my browser.

    • qazEnglish
      22•1 month ago

      Is there a way to export them with Markdown to prevent missing arms?

    • @[email protected]English
      17•1 month ago

      Another one: some arms will make the base chars disappear when rendered (guessing it’s a diacritic thing)

    • @AdityaGavitOP
      17•1 month ago

      thanks for catching that bug, I will get on fixing it ASAP

  • LoudWaterHombre
    50•1 month ago

    Just me you and 748 of your closest friends, awesome. Where can I find the source?

    • @AdityaGavitOP
      7•1 month ago

      that was because I had applied for Ezoic earlier, but I have now removed it and changed the DNS. Could you check if you’re still seeing the cookie consent? Since I m in India, I dont see these cookie notices (they’re country-specific), so I would really appreciate if you could let me know if they’re gone now. Thanks for flagging this

    • @[email protected]
      21•1 month ago

      You have something like 2000 friends all wanting to contact me for legitimate interest. Is it okay, if I tell them no?

      • @AdityaGavitOP
        18•1 month ago

        Thanks for letting me know ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

      • @[email protected]
        1•1 month ago

        copyright doesn’t expire because the year is the previous year. the copyright should be the year of first publication, not simply the current year at all times. because if it just says the current year, what does it even denote?

  • spicy pancakeEnglish
    45•1 month ago

    (╯❍⩌❍)╯* ੈ✩‧₊˚˚˚ ੈ✩‧₊

    THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS I LOVE IT

    ᕕ(✧∀✧)ᕗ•. ｡˚˚ · • . ° .

      • spicy pancakeEnglish
        3•1 month ago

        that is the #1 thing I miss about Gboard (I now use HeliBoard with the disembodied Google gesture typing library loaded into it)

  • @[email protected]English
    35•1 month ago

    Agree with less cookies and trackers if possible. Google doesn’t need to see my emoticons.

    Also would prefer a JS free-version if possible, but I can see how that might not work.

    Or maybe you’re also collecting the IPs of everyone here by cross referencing usernames with the emoticons used in comments and copied from your site. Statistically, this would actually be pretty easy to use to doxx people’s IPs/locations that way.

    • @[email protected]
      9•1 month ago

      A JS-free version would have to have the work offloaded to a server via an API request. I’m not sure if that’d be any better. At least with JS, you can theoretically read the code running on your machine

  • @[email protected]
    30•1 month ago

    I don’t think I’ve ever fully realised the depth of feeling I have for emoticons, let alone that there were others out there!

    ─=≡Σ((( つ•̀ω•́)つ LET’S GO!

    • @[email protected]English
      13•1 month ago

      I tried to recreate the emoticon you used, but this was the closest I could get with the available options.

      (づ•̀ω•̀)づ───==≡≡ΣΣ

  • em2
    17•1 month ago

    Hah, this is great ┌∩┐⸦(͠⊙ヘ͠⊙)⸧┌∩┐

  • Arthur Besse
    12•1 month ago

    nice work!

    i found a bug though

    selecting the sixth option in the base menu puts html in the output:

    (this is in Tor Browser, which is based on the “ESR” release of Firefox)

  • @[email protected]
    10•1 month ago

    For me the drop-down for Mouth/Nose has a lot of empty spaces, that show up when you select them.

    As a emoji noob it could be nice with some text naming the specific selection.