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Channel Sorting with Emoji
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!
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
Hi jdebrabander - no, unfortunately, I've not been able to find any answer on this yet.
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) characterb) 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)
