Custom Emoji's, Custom Stickers, Link Previews
Rental Rizzler
This is pretty self explanatory if you have used Discord. Allowing for custom emojis, and stickers would make chatting within second life more enjoyable. Link previews would also be a welcomed addition. This could also incentivize more paid memberships.
Custom Emojis, and Stickers can be tied to a users premium/paid membership status, allowing for more depending on membership level. Members at a certain level should also have the ability to add custom emojis and stickers to an SL group, allowing them to be shared among group members.
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Extrude Ragu
Mixed feelings.
On the one hand I could see it being fun
On the other hand I could see it being a kind of griefing vector (Think: people coming to an LL meeting and spamming the chat full of inappropriate images, if allowing gifs this could be even worse)
Unlike discord we currently have no way to delete a users message once it is sent. Offensive images would remain on the screen even after the user is ejected and continue to bother others, making it more effective at being disruptive.
Then again SL is one big griefing vector really. It's just what I can see happening. Maybe if we had a way to remove messages from our chat window..?
Coyote Enthusiast
I'm going to say no to stickers because they are rather large for SL's small chat window, and they will be abused like gestures and make chat unreadable.
However, I am all for custom emojis. I even know that there is a system in place that could allow it. Specifically the
<icon></icon>
feature. In the code it supports using UUIDs, but that code is broken. If fixed, chat could restrict the width/height to the font height, and load the required mipmap level for that resolution.Toothless Draegonne
Coyote Enthusiast
You might want to look at the merged proposal. People are already getting around emoji sizes with rather large ASCII art blobs. This would replace an existing large-image spam source, while also allowing granular filtering.
SL Feedback
Merged in a post from Toothless Draegonne:
Title: Proposal to implement chat stickers
Details: Stickers, as in the sort you may find in Discord, could be implemented in local, conference and group chats in Second Life. Given the way that Second Life works, this could be done in a manner that is filterable.
Stickers could be implemented as the ability to put arbitrary texture UUIDs into a group's sticker list. This list could be usable and/or maintainable based on assigned roles and permissions. This list could be sized based on the account level of the group creator.
Individuals and groups would be able to run blacklists and/or whitelists, or entirely enable/disable stickers in their chat.
Animated stickers could be a version 2 that would be implemented as a texture with animation parameters similar to how normal texture animations work.
This would mean that users could go completely wild-west, or could decide to only allow themselves to see stickers from groups they whitelist, or prevent themselves from seeing stickers from groups that they blacklist, or prevent the display of stickers entirely.
This would enable much more rich content in local chat, while also allowing individual users much more fine-grained control over what they are, or are not served up in the form of mass invites and chat spam.