:rotating_light: We have emoji! :arrow_left:

I like emoji, I like them quite a bit. I grew up using emoticons (gosh, remember those?), and definitely love to sprinkle them in my forum responses.

If you've been following me since I've been contributing to the fediverse, you might've thought I eschewed emoji, but let's put that misconception to rest :laughing:

Thanks to the hard work by @PitaJ, NodeBB now federates emoji used in posts outward to remote instances. This works across all emoji packs (android, apple, cubicopp, etc.) available to the emoji plugin, and also includes custom added emoji :arrow_right: :voodoo:

This is a two-way integration, so custom emoji served by other instances are also picked up by NodeBB and displayed properly in posts.

You might notice that the emoji I use are all blobs. :smile: It's the default emoji set for all NodeBB instances, because blobs are amazing and it's a travesty Google decided to move away from them.

Long live the blobmoji :flushed:

halloween is coming

so i made a new emoji pack!

this is my biggest emoji pack yet, rounding at 90 emojis, including pride variants.

you can download the pack here: https://ko-fi.com/s/07fcd09c1a

and as always, if you enjoy the set, and especially if you happen to use it on an instance, please consider donating to me as a thank you! any amount is more than enough :neoghost_3c:

here's the set preview:

Base emotes:
:neoghost: :neoghost_0_0: :neoghost_3c: :neoghost__w_: :neoghost_angry: :neoghost_blank: :neoghost_blep: :neoghost_blep_boop: :neoghost_blush: :neoghost_blush_boop: :neoghost_blush_hide: :neoghost_boop: :neoghost_comfy: :neoghost_comfy__w_: :neoghost_comfy_happy: :neoghost_cute: :neoghost_cute_blep: :neoghost_cute_boop: :neoghost_drowsy: :neoghost_evil_3c: :neoghost_facepalm: :neoghost_googly: :neoghost_googly_blep: :neoghost_googly_boop: :neoghost_googly_shocked: :neoghost_happy: :neoghost_happy_blep: :neoghost_happy_pat: :neoghost_heart: :neoghost_melt: :neoghost_melt_2: :neoghost_melt_3: :neoghost_melt_pat: :neoghost_nervous: :neoghost_reach: :neoghost_sad: :neoghost_sad_pat: :neoghost_scary: :neoghost_sob: :neoghost_woozy: :neoghost_woozy_boop:

Pride ghosts (the colors are pastel because you know, ghosts are translucent):
:neoghost_ace: :neoghost_agender: :neoghost_ambiamorous: :neoghost_aro: :neoghost_aroace: :neoghost_aroflux: :neoghost_bearpride: :neoghost_bi: :neoghost_bigender: :neoghost_demiboy: :neoghost_demigirl: :neoghost_deminb: :neoghost_demiromantic: :neoghost_demisexual: :neoghost_disabled: :neoghost_genderfluid: :neoghost_intersex: :neoghost_lesbian: :neoghost_mlm: :neoghost_nb: :neoghost_pan: :neoghost_polyam: :neoghost_plural: :neoghost_rainbow: :neoghost_salmacian: :neoghost_t4t: :neoghost_trans: :neoghost_transfem: :neoghost_transmasc:

Signs:
:neoghost_alt: :neoghost_gay: :neoghost_ja: :neoghost_nee: :neoghost_no: :neoghost_nya: :neoghost_plz: :neoghost_yes:

Disability aids:
:neoghost_glasses: :neoghost_hearing_aid:

Nom variants:
:neoghost_nom_cheese: :neoghost_nom_fish: :neoghost_nom_noodles: :neoghost_nom_stroopwafel: :neoghost_nom_worm:

Miscellanous:
:neoghost_cat: :neoghost_floof: :neoghost_fox: :neoghost_mouse: :neoghost_dutch:

Do you have favourite emoji? Show them here! Mine are: :loading: 🦜 :ablobwhatisgoingon: :flipcat: :bunneawwheart:

I created my own custom #emoji "from scratch" for the #Philly #trolley! Behold: :trolley:

It should match the :mfl: :nhsl: :bsl: :bus_septa: emoji Jawns already had.

I pulled the logo from Wikipedia as an SVG. Then I used Inkscape to make it a 400x400 PNG, since the emoji is apparently displayed as 20x20 by default and this should make it look crisp at any resolution:

inkscape -w 400 -h 400 input.svg -o output.png

Then I used Curtail to make the file size smaller with lossy PNG compression.