More chat effects

[rgpublic]

ROTFL, can't believe I'm filing this, but: Everyone (me included) loves those chat effects (confetti & snow). This feature alone has probably increased the popularity of Matrix/Element on our user-base by a 1000x ;-) We can't get enough & want more of those - not only 2.

Some proposals:

• Rain
• Stars
• Coins
• Leaves

[joepie91]

For what it's worth, there's also :fireworks: already :)

[rgpublic]

Woooow. Thanks a lot @joepie91 . Absolutely amazing! Didn't know about that. There's still a problem with discoverability I guess. Perhaps there should be some tab on the smiley selector for this or sth. like that.

[joepie91]

I think that imperfect discovery could actually be better here, makes it more fun to discover new ones :) But I agree that right now it's completely hidden.

Maybe a nice middle ground would be to modify the emoji selector so that it shows a small special marker/icon on emoji that have a chat effect attached to them? That way people can still have the fun of discovering them over time, but there's a visual cue helping them along.

[rgpublic]

@joepie91: 100% agree

[burdges]

I'd think discoverability could be handled by trigering effects on multiple emojis, like you already do.

[ghost]

What about falling leaves (the brown autumn one)? Or butterflies? Or aliens descending? Or what about a cherry blossom rain for spring season?

The firework by the way is awesome. Thank you for that whoever it created.

[rgpublic]

The alien idea is genius. Like flying saucers appearing, an alien waving quickly & then they are gone. Hahaha. Great. Anyone remembering the monodental & monoocular alien from Commander Keen ;-) ?

[burdges]

Aside form chat effects, could we get :joint: and :weed: somehow? Not animated, just the usual little icons.

[t3chguy]

@burdges https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html

[justjosias]

Rain addressed in matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk#7086

[rafaelbn]

[robintown]

The product team has decided to not add any more effects beyond the five six that are currently offered. See this document for the rationale.

[skolmer]

The product team has decided to not add any more effects beyond the five that are currently offered. See this document for the rationale.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Totally makes sense to me. Just noticed that the shared document is missing the "fireworks" effect.