They’re intended to work and look like your usual Discord or similar emoji reactions, as long as it’s between Gmail users:
To non-Gmail users, those reactions would appear as regular email replies with a big emoji:
I don’t know how to feel about it personally, it’s the kind of feature that seems completely detached from reality as that’s certainly not how most people use emails, and the only thing it will create is more email garbage filling up your inbox.
EDIT: The person who found about the feature first (assembledebug) also added how to enable it:
Ben forgot to mention how it can be enabled 🙂 ?
You need a rooted phone and need to flip a switch of a flag using GappsMod.
But why? Gmail (and email in general) is, to me, for long form communication and professional communication. Emoji’s are the opposite of that
came to the thread because I felt this exact same sentiment. Talk about a solution looking for the problem.
Step one in trying to turn gmail into a slack/teams frankenstein thing.
Our gmail at work already has chats/spaces (very badly) integrated
idk if it’s the Gmail app in chromeOS or some specific distribution of it for companies?
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Oh boy, let me hurry up and root my phone so I can finally have emojis in my… emails
Gross. No.
Thanks, I hate it.
Fuck Google, just stick to the standards.
They’re doing the same thing Apple does with iMessage and Google complains about
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Also I’m totally fine with Outlook adding this (as they have).
Some emails just need a 👍🏻, not an actual response.
Was literally anybody asking for this?
Outlook does this and it’s stupid and useless.
So is this.
Why can’t Google just let me install Gmail Go on my phone?
I just don’t care at all about these useless “features”.
Just use K-9 mail or other email clients, no one’s forcing you to use Gmail.
I will try it out!
I originally used MyMail as an alternative to Gmail, but when i eventually discovered it’s garbage collection was even worse than Gmail’s, i switched back.
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There is a standard that Delta Chat uses to do the same thing. I’d bet $50 they are not using that standard.
Unless it’s open source, they have no reason to. In fact given Google’s influence and size, whatever Google decides, will become standard.
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They are. It’s just a new email header. It’s defined in an experimental RFC:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9078
And I can tell Google is not following this spec, because the content is more than just a single line of emoji character(s).
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Ah, ok. Maybe Google is following the spec then. We can hope.
I remember reading somewhere that Delta used this spec specifically, but I could be wrong.
To non-Gmail users, those reactions would appear as regular email replies with a big emoji
The second I ever see one of these in my inbox, I’m adding a rule to auto-trash any message containing “X reacted via Gmail”
