[Good News] You can now use PokeSpe emojis in comments
When I made the announcement regarding user flairs a couple of months ago, I said that the subreddit emojis we created for user flairs could not be used in comments. Nothing in the subreddit settings or the official Reddit wiki indicated that this could be done, so I accepted it for what it was. Imagine my shock as I later stumbled across a subreddit with emojis in comments. I did some more digging, and discovered that custom subreddit emojis in comments exists as a separate feature from the normal user flair emoji system. It was unveiled with Reddit Powerups, a system that was later removed. For some reason, the Reddit staff decided not to integrate the feature normally like gifs in comments, and instead left it in this weird limbo where it's not officially advertised or mentioned and subreddit moderators have to personally request it from the administrators.
In all honesty I am expecting them to eventually deprecate this feature like they did with collections, but for now r/pokespe has custom subreddit emojis for use in comments. They are completely separate from the flair emojis, and there is an arbitrary limit of 20 unique comment emoji slots. We tried to represent different dexholders and emotions/situations with the limited space we have.
With user flairs, I realised that Reddit's lack of feature uniformity across their clients hindered adoption, but this feature seems to be a little bit more developed and intuitive. You just press the smiley face icon in the textbox when making a comment to bring up the emoji menu. Here's what it looks like on the new desktop client at www.reddit.com:
Here's what it looks like on new.reddit.com (which is no longer the newest version of the desktop client, despite the name):
Here is what it looks like on mobile Reddit (I use Android, I assume iOS should be similar):
The emoji icon actually cycles through each of the different emojis on our subreddit on my mobile client, which looks quite nice.
If you have a comment that only contains 1, 2, or 3 emojis, Reddit will display these emojis at full size in your comment. (Note: only on desktop Reddit does it show them at full size, LOL)
Hopefully you guys enjoy this feature.