User option to disable emoji-replacement

[igalic]

By default, mastodon replaces emoji in the with an html img tag, that contains an svg Emojione image. For example:

<img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="☺️" 
  title=":relaxed:" src="https://static.glitch.social/emoji/263a.svg">

I'd like to make it easier for this feature to be disabled.
Either by admins, upon installing the instance, or perhaps even to expose it as a user-preference choice… this could become part of glitch-soc's "flavours"

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[ticky]

I’d vote for a checkbox alongside the “use system font” switch.

p.s. it’s also possible to detect native emoji support in a user’s browser using something like mojibaka (disclosure: it’s my project) so it could be made to be off unless the browser needs replacements.

[igalic]

I've started toying with this again, to see what I can do from my side without writing any code.

It appears i can Block the URL ||static.glitch.social/emoji/$image in uBlock, if I also disable Hide placeholders of blocked elements (see this reddit post for more info)

And that only breaks the Emoji Picker. So if someone was to really implement this, they'd also have to configure the emoji-mart to use native => true in the case that a user selects system emoji.

[ClearlyClaire]

Would it be fine as a local app setting (I mean, a setting set from the settings modal specific to the glitch flavour)? This would not apply to public pages

[igalic]

i believe that's what "User Option" means, exactly.

[ClearlyClaire]

I asked that because there was a suggestion to put it in the server-side thing

I’d vote for a checkbox alongside the “use system font” switch.

But I'd rather not pass it to the public pages (because there is no readily-system available for that and I don't want to mess with the vanilla parts much more)