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Rumtintin24
Brass Contributor
Aug 03, 2020

Channel Sorting with Emoji

Hi all,   As a project manager, I'm happily using emoji at the start of my channel names to make quick navigation easier - the teams members have responded positively. I generally also sort my chan...
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HenryPhillipsNimbitech
Bronze Contributor
Aug 03, 2020

Hi Rumtintin24 ,

 

Now that is an interesting use of Emojis. I would have to say though, that I don't think Emojis would have ever been planned for this purpose and therefore the results probably will be random.

 

I know it is a bit of a different way of doing things but do you have any more joy utilising the command bar and its search facility across the top to achieve a similar thing to the sort or at least narrow down the choice of channels.

 

 

Thanks

 

Henry

 

 

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Rumtintin24
Brass Contributor
Aug 03, 2020

HenryPhillipsNimbitech 

 

Yep agreed that it may be unusual (although I've seen several blogs in which people do it). When users are confronted with a lot of teams, and then channels within, the emojis provide an easy way to differentiate. (And they're used consistently across teams).

 

You may be right about the random sorting. But, since the non-emoji channels are sorted alphabetically, and you can also use Alt-characters to sort as well, I assumed there was some underlying logic to it.

 

Yep - we do also use the Search bar as well. It doesn't exactly accomplish the same goal, but it's certainly handy.

 

Appreciate the feedback!

  • jdebrabander's avatar
    jdebrabander
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 27, 2020

    HiRumtintin24

     

    In the meantime, any more insights on this topic?

    I have the same challenge.

    There must be some kind of logical sorting?

     

    Appreciate your feedback,

     

    Jeroen db

    • chadbrack's avatar
      chadbrack
      Brass Contributor
      Oct 27, 2020

      Hi jdebrabander - no, unfortunately, I've not been able to find any answer on this yet.

      • clemensfreitag's avatar
        clemensfreitag
        Copper Contributor
        Feb 23, 2021

        chadbrack
        Came to this relatively old threat with exactly the same question and wanted to leave a record for followers.  I think the order is just determinated by two rules:

        a) emojis have a higher rank than any regular (ASCII) character

        b) emojis are sorted by their Unicode representation (https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html)

         

        In my case, the "top channels" carry the following emoji (top to bottom):

         

        U+1F31F (glowing star)
U+1F36A (cookie)
U+1F399 (studio microphone)
U+1F47C (baby angel)
U+1F4FB (radio)

         

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