Would you be interested in a better way to search for emotes on Exhale?

[Urbanney]

Hi guys! I've had an idea to create my own search engine for Exhale emotes for a while now. It just happens way too often that I'm looking for a specific emote but can't find it despite searching for what the tag might be and looking through all of the emotes visually.

So basically, my idea was to create multiple tags for each emote so that you could describe the emote and hopefully be able to find it. So for example, to find this emote , you could search for:

• "Make me"
• "Peace"
• "Peace sign"
• "Glory"
• "Smile"
• ":)"
• "Hat"
• "Britney"

And for any or all of those search terms, that emote would show up.

I already mentioned this idea to Jordan months ago, but he said there's no way to do it on Exhale. I decided to try to make my own search engine, and I have it up and running. There are two limitations here though:

1. You'd have to go to another website to search for the emotes. It would have the same clean layout as any other search engine though, where it's just a search bar. 
2. You can't copy and paste the emote easily. The results tell you the emote code that you would type here in your Exhale post/comment, which you would have to do manually. (For example, to get the  emote from the search engine to Exhale, you would have to manually type ":saycheese:" in your post)

I have to go in manually for every emote and find its original emote code and then manually add all of its search tags, so this is a very time intensive project for me.

 

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Here is what it would look like:

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So, my question is:

Would you use this search engine regularly?

I won't be offended if you say no. I just need honesty. I'd be pretty bummed out if a bunch of people say they would use it and then I spent days working on it, and no one used it

[VCTR]

I’m not sure. Does this mean there will be more emotes? If there isn’t more, it seems like a lot of work for little old me. 

[Haha-Hehe-Haha-Ho]

This would be very fun and cool 

I don't have the board memorized and sometimes I spend way to long looking for that specific emote but I can't remember the shortcode 

[Urbanney]

5 minutes ago, VCTR said:

I’m not sure. Does this mean there will be more emotes? If there isn’t more, it seems like a lot of work for little old me. 

No, it's the same emotes here on Exhale. It's just an easier way to find them. 

[ColdAsFire88]

OMG you just read my mind  I was just commenting on another thread and found some “new” emotes but they aren’t new I just haven’t seen them on my mobile cos they’re tiny  Anyway, I’ve noticed that some basic words don’t populate anything when I search 

[Mantequilla]

Big yes! Sometimes I just don't know how to find an emote I'd like to use, and I end up giving up, so this would be great!

[PokemonSpears]

Yes, that's great.

It would help a lot if they were at least grouped by person (all the Britney emotes together, all the Beyoncé emotes together, etc.) and on top of that, grouped by year/thing they come from (all the Carpool Karaoke emotes together, and go chronologically from oldest to newest or something).

Another way of sorting them, would be by "emotion" all the laughing ones together, the shady ones together, the sad ones together, etc.

 

[Urbanney]

35 minutes ago, PokemonSpears said:

Yes, that's great.

It would help a lot if they were at least grouped by person (all the Britney emotes together, all the Beyoncé emotes together, etc.) and on top of that, grouped by year/thing they come from (all the Carpool Karaoke emotes together, and go chronologically from oldest to newest or something).

Another way of sorting them, would be by "emotion" all the laughing ones together, the shady ones together, the sad ones together, etc.

 

That's a good idea. I've already been trying to label emotes, especially Britney ones, by era, events, color, etc. Maybe I'll try to start working on categories and sorting once I get the search engine done, assuming there's enough interest.

[Barajas]

Yas please yaass ! 
hahaha I always struggle to find the emotes 

[Jordan Miller]

Love the initiative! @Urbanney

I just reached out to the Invision Community to see if there's anything we can do to make searching for emotes easier. 

Here's what I said. Thoughts?

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Wondering... would it be possible somehow to sort existing custom emotes? For example, ALL of our custom emotes are in one Group.

I was thinking of categorizing custom emotes by Group so it's easier to find them. For example, Groups named:

• Happy
• Funny
• Sad etc

I would like to avoid re-uploading all of our emotes as there are currently hundreds. It would be awesome just to drag and drop or re-categorize into groups somehow. Is this possible?

It would be also awesome to assign tags to the emotes. For example, if a user searched for either "britney, smile, peace" this would pop up:

 

[Jordan Miller]

53 minutes ago, PokemonSpears said:

Another way of sorting them, would be by "emotion" all the laughing ones together, the shady ones together, the sad ones together, etc.

This can be done! But it appears I'd have to manually re-upload all of them versus sorting. Seeing if there's a more efficient way to go about this.  

[Blackout2006]

This will really loosen the limitations we have right now with the emote search engine. I am totally up for this idea! 

[Jordan Miller]

OK so I have an update. 

I can actually re-name all the emotes to include descriptors. 

So for example, if you search this particular emote below, you can type the words "indulge" "eat" or "Trisha" and it will pop up. 

Thoughts? 

[Urbanney]

13 minutes ago, Jordan Miller said:

OK so I have an update. 

I can actually re-name all the emotes to include descriptors. 

So for example, if you search this particular emote below, you can type the words "indulge" "eat" or "Trisha" and it will pop up. 

Thoughts? 

That would be the dream. No separate website needed 

I can do all the tags/descriptors if you want me to. Then maybe we can start a thread for people to make suggestions of other descriptors to add for certain emotes in case we miss any? 

[Slayer]

10 minutes ago, Urbanney said:

That would be the dream. No separate website needed 

I can do all the tags/descriptors if you want me to. Then maybe we can start a thread for people to make suggestions of other descriptors to add for certain emotes in case we miss any? 

Amazing @Urbanney  I love this idea.

I love how your minds have came together and you and Jordan have found a way to implement it 

[Jordan Miller]

10 minutes ago, Urbanney said:

I can do all the tags/descriptors if you want me to. Then maybe we can start a thread for people to make suggestions of other descriptors to add for certain emotes in case we miss any? 

Love this idea!! Let me think of a good way to go about this. I'll PM you!

[Trentals]

YES!

Since the update I can’t access the emotes button on my phone, so I have to remember the correct name of any ones that I want to use which is....difficult  

[Style.]

I love me some Urbanney 

[Sadira]

YES: sometimes it takes ages because i cant find one emote i know is there somewhere

[Lukas1896]

Yes! 

It would be great and very helpful