Emojis do not show up in Emoji picker and are delayed in the normal chat window about convos HOT 13 CLOSED

Looks like the CDN was shut down: twitter/twemoji#580

Need to find an alternative solution. (Might be documented in that issue)

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To my experience they work without problems on desktop Linux.

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Convos v7.14 uses system emojis instead of images from maxcdn. Thanks for the information 👍

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Would be nice if it was documented on https://convos.chat/doc/faq#is-convos-supported-on-my-system which packages to install. I don't plan to revert the change, since I like that Convos doesn't have to download the emojis from a third party.

I also wonder if there's a way to detect if the font is installed or not...

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I think it would be best if no CDN was used at all and system emojis were used.

Alternatively you could include: https://openmoji.org/ in Convos.

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I'm not sure how well system emojis are supported on Linux, but if they are then I'll consider it.

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There are actually small issues with system emojis on linux if you do barebones installs as then it really depends on which emoji font you install and if you don't install any then well you just get unknown unicode boxes @jhthorsen

also the CDN(twemoji.maxcdn.com) is back up and now redirects to jsdelivr's cdn via a CNAME so anyone on older convos version still has the ability to use twemoji's without issues see twitter/twemoji#580 (comment)

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Would be nice if it was documented on https://convos.chat/doc/faq#is-convos-supported-on-my-system which packages to install.

This wouldn't work in case of emojis as it is per user so there would need to be a new FAQ just for the emojis as every individual user would need to install an emoji font if they are missing one hence why relaying on images/svgs is the best action most things take.

For example arch users could install:
ttf-twemoji - twemoji (only works on certain browsers)
noto-fonts-emoji - google emojis black and white
debian/ubuntu users:
fonts-noto-color-emoji - google emojis with color (the only emoji package on ubuntu and debian all others need manual install)
fedora/opensuse:
google-noto-emoji-fonts or noto-emoji-fonts (both also black and white)
twitter-twemoji-fonts or twemoji-color-font (same applies as for arch users only works in certain browsers)

as can be seen by the examples I have given it is generally a mess and always good to provide emojis through images especially if working with linux.

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Uhmm, don't agree. I know for sure that Fedora, Manjaro and Ubuntu come with system emojis pre-installed out of the box and I am sure this applies for many other Desktop focussed distributions as well.

If you are rolling your own distro from scratch and have not installed any system emojis that is just like any other software missing from your system and should not be worked around in Convos especially when it involves a privacy sensitive issue like loading emoji images from an external CDN.

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and yet again I see no big issue in loading emoji images from an external CDN if it really is such a issue why not simply load them locally instead of from a CDN

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It is a big issue under the GDPR.

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It is a big issue under the GDPR.

Cool.... But this is something that the person running convos has to deal with by writing a GDPR section and if it is not public then it doesn't matter or do you wanna say every project using a cdn to provide emojis has to now remove it.

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@Mar0xy: So what is the actual issue you're trying to address? Is it that you don't want to install or don't like system emojis? If you have any data that contradicts what @poVoq has stated before, I'm all ears, but if most modern/common linux desktop distros actually come shipped with emoji support, then I don't see why I would add extra overhead to Convos by loading pngs from a CDN.

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