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2020-01-22 09:17:56 UTC |
Reactions allow you to "react" to other people's messages. Reactions appear as a small emoji positioned below a message, along with a counter for each reaction. Reacting to a message requires the "Add Reaction" permission, however, no permissions are required in order to react to an existing reaction, already present on a message. The counter represents how many people have reacted with that certain emoji.
As expected, users who have a Nitro subscription may react with emoji from other servers, that aren't Better TTV emojis.
You can click the add reaction icon (the small smiley with a plus sign) to bring up the emoji picker. When you click on an emoji, a reaction is added. Alternatively, you can use the "Add Reaction" sub-item of the message menu. It reveals a nested sub-menu where you can choose from your frequently used emoji to react with, and a menu item to open the emoji picker. If you do not have the "Add Reaction" permission, the add reaction icon and the "Add Reaction" sub-item will not show on any messages.
If a message has at least one reaction already present, a secondary add reaction icon appears to the last reaction.
Typing +:emoji: will react to the most recently sent message in the channel with that :emoji:. This currently only works with the desktop Discord client, and the iOS client.
If you attempt to react to a person's message, and that person has you blocked, your reaction will not be created and your Discord client will shake violently, signalling that you cannot add a reaction to this message.
There is a reaction modal that you can show by right-clicking on a message and clicking the "Reactions" sub-item.
Here, you can view all of the users who has reacted to the message, and with what emojis. With sufficient permissions, you can remove individual reactions.
With the correct permissions, you can remove all of the reactions from a message, using the "Remove all Reactions" item in the message sub-menu.
It is possible to hide reactions by toggling the "Show emoji reactions on messages" setting in the "Text & Images" subsection of the Discord client settings. This setting is clientside only - reactions will still work for other people if you turn this off, they are just invisible to you.
Reactions debuted on Discord on November 3rd, 2016. A video was uploaded to the Discord App YouTube channel as an announcement. Proceeding the announcement, Zencha is shown performing science experiments at a nearby park.
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