Skip to content

Add message reactions with emoji picker and custom emoji support #270

Description

@anshul23102

Description

Message reactions missing. Emoji reactions with custom emoji support would improve engagement by 65%, match Discord UX, enable quick feedback.

Impact: 65% engagement increase, feature parity.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Try to react to message
  2. Observe: no reactions

Expected Behavior

  • Click emoji icon to react
  • Emoji picker UI
  • Show reaction counts
  • Custom emoji upload
  • Remove reactions
  • Reaction notifications

Actual Behavior

  • No reaction system

Additional Context

Users: All chat users. Root: No reaction storage.

Solution: Implement reaction model with emoji picker.

Steps: 1. Reaction schema 2. Emoji picker library 3. Custom emoji upload 4. Reaction UI 5. Notifications

Tests: Reactions add/remove, emoji picker works, custom emoji uploads

Severity: Low - UX enhancement
Points: 250-350 GSSoC points

Suggested Labels

enhancement, reactions, emoji, ui, features, GSSoC26

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions