Who does not like having custom emojis of their own? We all love using our :hive_rocket:'s on Discord and MM. Now, this open emoji API brings those to Hive! :partyparrot:
How it Works
Hivemoji leverages Hive. User's upload their emojis and their associated data to Hive in custom_json transactions. What this means is that anyone can start a Hivemoji API from scratch without having to need a permission from someone else. You just need to stream the blockchain and the data is there.
Once the emoji is uploaded and registered on the API database. User can use the :emojiname: in their posts to use their emojis or :username/emojiname: to use someone else's emoji and it will render as an emoji on frontends that implemented the Hivemoji rendering. (Many thanks to @peakd and @snapie teams!)
For more information you can check:
https://github.com/mrtats/Hivemoji (Please don't use the extension, it was for proof of concept and is now deprecated with frontends implementing their own Hivemoji rendering.)
https://github.com/mrtats/HivemojiGO
But Why???
As some one who likes using custom emojis, a kekw here a pained laugh there, uploading them to your post as an image did not really work well. And now that short form content is becoming more popular on Hive, not being able to use custom emojis felt like something was lacking.
On Discord when I talk with my friends, I use emojis all the time. Why that shouldn't be the case on Hive as well? Why I shouldn't be able to send a kekw while replying to @rishi556 doing badly on wordle.
Future???
There are many things that could be improved with Hivemoji.
For example, given that all the data is basically living on the blockchain. It can be converted to a HAF App. (Imagine all your favorite Hive API providers also providing Hivemoji API easily.)
Frontends could implement custom emoji pickers, and ways to upload a Hivemoji from their UIs.
More people could run a Hivemoji API. ( I am the only one at the moment)
For now, you can upload a Hivemoji from here https://hivemoji.hivelytics.io/ Don't hold how it looks against me, I had created this one as temporary solution. Hopefully, it will be temporary.
Repos will be updated with a MIT license. Because well this is a open protocol and open software for the benefit of Hive.
See you in another post/project.